Weekly Update

This week Francisco, Patrick, and I really felt like we go the ball rolling with ideas for the project. We met with Dr. Furman, Mr. Swenson, and Professor Igor, along with Mr. Albulet to discuss about moving forward with a truss design to create a more professional solar panel mount than last year's team. They focused a lot on designing the truss and that ate up their time, so the build quality was a degree lacking in terms of professionalism. We are hoping with the truss system from Mr. Swenson's colleague, Brad Diaz, we can focus more on keeping the aesthetics of the mount intact. We also discussed with Mr. Albulet on different ways to paramaterize Solidworks so that we could try a various amount of designs without having to change every detail of the model. Reflecting from this week, everyone in the team is energized with this new plan, and we are going to go forward and focus on building a clean design for the solar panels.

-Jordan Schultz

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