Week 4 Team Blog

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  • Conference call made with our industry sponsor Maxwell technologies
    • They will be helping us choose the appropriate UCAPs
  • Preliminary drawings on our mechanism  
  • Finished project proposal 
  • Created two calculators
    • one: A max weight calculator to get the bogie moving and to overcome static friction
    • two: UCAP calculator which determines how much power output you will get with a certain amount of modules in series or parallel. 
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