Individual Session - October 3, 2018

For today's meeting, I went over a couple of alternative design concepts for the track. I mapped out how the center of the track will look like when we have fabricated all of our extra parts. This was helpful to the small scale controls team as they were trying to figure out where the bogey would pause for recharging on the track.

I was also working on the CAD file for our hanger brackets. We are deciding on replacing most of the brackets on the track with a wider design so that the bogey would not scrape it when making the turns. Also, we found that if we were to hold the curve sections together with an additional bracket and raise the level by adding a support column, it would solve a lot of our problems with the track sagging and the bogey wheels dragging along the rail.

We plan on currently holding off the meeting with Daniel Brolin until we can finalize our CAD drawings so that we may discuss injection molding for our brackets. Logan from the bogey team was also planning on meeting with Daniel so that he could have some parts manufactured as well.

The Bill of Materials for the project was also completed and uploaded to the drive. Currently we are around $1000-$1100 needed in funding for our project, but that may be subject to change as we buy different grades of aluminum or add the cost of the injection molding. Below is the most current design of our hanger bracket. It is wider and curves optimized for injection molding


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