SEAS Design Fair Table Sign-Ups! (Tomorrow)

[Raquel Schreiber]

Hi Team, 

We need to be with the car at the SEAS design fair tomorrow! It'll be great to show off our work and recruit new members for next year. Ali has updated our poster (boss!) so we'll have that, and we'll bring the rolling chassis as well. 

PLEASE SIGN UP FOR A TIME SLOT (reply all!) If you're already there for another class, even better! Just make sure you can be near our table for your slot:

10-11: Set up (bring chassis, poster, sign-up sheet)      [       Team Member(s) : Raquel,     ]

11-12: Be there                                                               [       Team Member(s)      ]

12- 1: Be there                                                                [       Team Member(s)      ]

1-2: Be there                                                                   [       Team Member(s)      ]

2-3 (latest): Clean up (bring chassis back)                     [       Team Member(s)      ]

I know we want to spend our time wisely on the car and not on showing off, but let's show our team spirit tomorrow and enjoy how amazingly far we're come. (I sat in the car today with the windshield and was blown away - Ali has video :))

Raquel

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From: Ali Forelli <afor...@college.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, May 3, 2016 at 4:43 PM
Subject: Fwd: SEAS Racing Weekly Update
To: Raquel Schreiber <raquels...@college.harvard.edu>

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From: Chalah, Anas <ach...@seas.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: SEAS Racing Weekly Update
To: Ali Forelli <afor...@college.harvard.edu>
Cc: "harvard-e...@googlegroups.com Ecomarathon" <harvard-e...@googlegroups.com>, Peter RH Stark <prhs...@seas.harvard.edu>, "Kristant, Elaine H" <ekri...@seas.harvard.edu>, Maddie <mad...@seas.harvard.edu>, "DeLucas, Rachel" <rac...@seas.harvard.edu>

Hello Team,

We look forward to having you all tomorrow under the tent at the Design Fair. That event is the most excellent opportunity to showcase your car, present your club/team, and recruit the next generation of team members. I would advise that your use one of your last posters, and print some flyers with your club's contact info for interested students to take.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best,

Anas

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Ali Forelli <afor...@college.harvard.edu> wrote:

Hi all,

We had another productive week! On Sunday, we welcomed Cliff, our newest team member, and we are excited to have him join the team! On Monday, Joe and I met some enthusiastic prefrosh at the Visitas engineering fair. My replacement for next year may be among them...

Seat belt

James made a preliminary design for attachment points and Sam drilled out the last layer of carbon in the seat belt channel. Sam also tidied up the basement room, which is amazing!

Wheel Fairings

On Sunday, Joe designed the wheel fairings in SolidWorks and divided the part into slices. On Monday, Raquel used the laser cutter to cut the airfoil profiles out of 2" foam. Foam-master Sean has been hard at work "persuading" the foam into the correct shape. He has sanded and glued the layers together (with the help of some creative clamps, pictured below). We plan on finishing up the fairings this weekend and next week if anyone wants to help out!

 

Engine

Joe has been putting in a lot of hours at Stan's this week, and he is making good progress on engine parts. Our friends over at NW Labs are still working on the new head, which we hope to have very soon!

Sean, Joe, and Sam spent some time last weekend getting the original engine attached to the chassis (pictured below). With some creative arranging, they were able to get everything to fit with (a tiny bit of) room to spare! Nic helped out with the electric starter, and we now have the engine configured with a push-to-start button. No more yanking the cord to the crankshaft!

Body

On Sunday, Cliff helped me map out the initial cuts for the chassis on the new bottom body pan. On Thursday, Juri made his triumphant return to the Pierce basement and helped me carve out the chassis channels. This morning, Joe and I cut room for the rollbar and clearance holes for all three wheels, and now everything fits! However, we will wait to permanently attach the pan to the chassis until we have all the cables and seat belt attachments finalized.

Windows

After some disappointing results last week, we regrouped to make a plan for windows going forward. Unfortunately, the thermoformer at the GSD is too small for our purposes, but one of the shop managers suggested heating .032" plexiglass with a heat gun and slumping it over the mould. We will also try using the heat gun on the PETG pieces we formed at MIT to see if we can remove any of the wrinkles. Stay tuned for future window experimentation updates.

Meeting this weekend

Due to Yard Fest on Sunday, the meeting time may be shifted, so keep any eye out for an email from me or Joe concerning weekend scheduling. We may also be doing some work tomorrow.

Keep up the good work!

Best,

Ali

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Executive Director of Active Learning

Lecturer on Engineering Sciences

Director of Lab Safety Program

Harvard University

John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science
Pierce Hall G2A, 29 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617)-495-8991
ach...@seas.harvard.edu

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Raquel Schreiber

Harvard College 2015/2016

201.838.4169

raquels...@college.harvard.edu

[Ali Forelli]

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Raquel Schreiber <raquels...@college.harvard.edu> wrote:

Hi Team, 

We need to be with the car at the SEAS design fair tomorrow! It'll be great to show off our work and recruit new members for next year. Ali has updated our poster (boss!) so we'll have that, and we'll bring the rolling chassis as well. 

PLEASE SIGN UP FOR A TIME SLOT (reply all!) If you're already there for another class, even better! Just make sure you can be near our table for your slot:

10-11: Set up (bring chassis, poster, sign-up sheet)      [       Team Member(s) : Raquel,  Ali   ]

11-12: Be there                                                               [       Team Member(s): Ali      ]

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[Samuel Meijer]

I’ll be at the ES51 stand but can probably help out a bit! Come watch my car/robot thing!

S

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Engine

Joe has been putting in a lot of hours at Stan's this week, and he is making good progress on engine parts. Our friends over at NW Labs are still working on the new head, which we hope to have very soon!

Sean, Joe, and Sam spent some time last weekend getting the original engine attached to the chassis (pictured below). With some creative arranging, they were able to get everything to fit with (a tiny bit of) room to spare! Nic helped out with the electric starter, and we now have the engine configured with a push-to-start button. No more yanking the cord to the crankshaft!

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Body

On Sunday, Cliff helped me map out the initial cuts for the chassis on the new bottom body pan. On Thursday, Juri made his triumphant return to the Pierce basement and helped me carve out the chassis channels. This morning, Joe and I cut room for the rollbar and clearance holes for all three wheels, and now everything fits! However, we will wait to permanently attach the pan to the chassis until we have all the cables and seat belt attachments finalized.

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[Joseph Pappas]

Ill be around the whole time for es52, es96, and SEAS Racing. See you then.

[Raquel Schreiber]

Is anyone able to help me take the chassis over to SC tent around 10:30/10:45? (Ali will be a little late.) It shouldn't take too long to just carry/wheel it over, but I need an extra set of hands.