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| 3D printed parts that Professor Youssefi printed for us. |
This is one of the bogies we put together. We only have two with all of the components inside. The controls team says they will be able to have more components ready to put inside the cabins on Wednesday before class.
As of Sunday April 2nd we have 5 and a half cabins printed. All of the bogies are completed with some of the parts that Ernest was able to print before the tech shop closed. We met on the Sunday before spring break to test out the bogies. And also this past Friday and Saturday. The controls team and the app team were able to test out two bogies. They told us that we had to file one of the parts of the bogie because it was hitting the metal strip that was mounted on the track by the positioning team. And we met on Saturday to file those parts and tap more holes one the cabins and on other parts. It was also suggested by the controls team that also suggested that we put more washers on the top bearings and that was taken care of on Saturday. We were also able to improve our switching mechanism on Saturday. Sometimes the pins would come off but now the pins have solder at the ends and that prevents it from coming off. While Ernest was fixing the pins, Moralma was working on fixing the 3D printer and it now works and we been able to finish printing our cabins. We also spent some time this Saturday fixing some of the stuff on our bogies because they are being used by different teams and sometimes things on the bogie are not were they are suppose to be placed.
The cabins have been printing at the design center since this Saturday.