Individual Post Week 7/10 - 7/14

This week was a very busy week for the half scale team. Working together, Joey, Ryan and myself were able to manufacture through rapid prototyping a small test bed system for the tilting mechanism.








We were also able to finalize a mock suspension system for the half scale bogie system on Solidworks. This utilized a chain driving mechanism as well as a strut system to act as an anti-roll mechanism. Although this is only on Solidworks, it can be implemented for future teams to use or even improve upon. We then finally got parts from the machinist and have started to partly re-assemble both bogies.

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