Capstone part 2

We have made a lot of progress with our prototype and design, including finalized ideas for different frames variations and a completed prototype for the back part of the go kart. At this point we still have  a lot of work left, we will cover this in the page below. enjoy!

Current Final design sketch:

On the top are our final sketches on paper for our final design with all of our dimensions. And on the bottom in an updated 3D CAD design on Fusion 360 for the rear axle portion of our go kart.

Alternate concepts:

Below are three designs for our frame which we think could all work, but out of our square, rectangular and triangular design, we think the triangular design will have the best strength considering the amount of metal it'll take to make.

Here is a visual on all of our spendings, we've been funded $400 and we intend to spend around $400, so it seems like we'll be fine with the money side, especially considering we already has $330 worth of parts lying around at some of our team members houses.

Below is a visual of our mentor and some experience they have and what they do, we showed this at the open house, we also showed our Instagram page with is doing pretty well in terms of views and likes. Feel free to check it out if you'd like.

Reflection: I think we made a lot of progress since our last Capstone website update, we made some sketches with dimensions and made a really good model in Fusion 360, we're going to be ordering more parts in the next couple days, so that should advance our progress even more. And at the open house parents seemed really enthusiastic about our design, so that gives up hope that people will like the finished design. We do have a concern that we hope the ESC still works, since Nathan did something with the wiring and caused a spark before the open house, but it should still be fine. We still have a lot of work to do, but luckily we have a Gantt chart so we know exactly what to do and when to do it.