2024-09-09 Mechanical Meeting

\uD83D\uDDD3 Date

09 Sep 2024

\uD83D\uDC65 Participants

Gerard Cardenas

\uD83E\uDD45 Goals

Individual System Requirements
Research/testing Checkpoint Review
Design Brainstorm and Development
Daybreak Plan
Trial Workday Plans

\uD83D\uDDE3 Discussion topics

Item

Notes

Preliminary Design Strategy

come up with goals
start brainstorming different options for system architecture (prototyping) - this doesn’t have to be dependent upon optimal characteristics
continue conducting research and testing
use findings to inform which options are good and which won’t work
choose optimal option and revise design to match optimal characteristics

There is no point in making all of the critical decisions now. Make different prototypes with different designs/architecture so you have options to weigh. Don’t constrain yourself right away without having enough knowledge to determine those constraints. Making constraining decisions at the beginning without sufficient knowledge is premature, and those decisions can turn out to be the wrong decisions later on. Also, holding design to wait on optimal characteristics to be determined allows no actual progress on design to happen. Having a rough prototype that you can revise later to match optimal characteristics gives you a head start.

Division/System Requirements

High Level Flowchart:

https://lucid.app/lucidchart/0b7a6450-7f18-44b1-a9f3-90d0421b3f96/edit?viewport_loc=-256%2C291%2C2539%2C1128%2C0_0&invitationId=inv_4979a893-bb88-4897-99a6-8a473a5401f9

2024-2026 Requirements Sheet

https://utexas.sharepoint.com/:x:/r/sites/ENGR-LonghornRacing/_layouts/15/Doc.aspx?sourcedoc=%7B0BE91788-A3F5-403E-BD0D-335539E3212F%7D&file=2025-2026%20Requirements%20Sheet.xlsx&action=default&mobileredirect=true

Design Brainstorm

Two probable designs so far:

driver in the front
driver in the back

Daybreak Plan:

System
Aeroshell	What is broken/insufficient?: What repair options exist?: How much time do you believe each option will take?: What level of involvement could new members have in these processes?: What is your overall outlook on the feasibility of us repairing daybreak with such a capacity that we could pass scrutineering in FSGP 2025?:
Fergo	What is broken/insufficient?: What repair options exist?: How much time do you believe each option will take?: What level of involvement could new members have in these processes?: What is your overall outlook on the feasibility of us repairing daybreak with such a capacity that we could pass scrutineering in FSGP 2025?:
Dynamics	What is broken/insufficient?: What repair options exist?: How much time do you believe each option will take?: What level of involvement could new members have in these processes?: What is your overall outlook on the feasibility of us repairing daybreak with such a capacity that we could pass scrutineering in FSGP 2025?:
Emech	What is broken/insufficient?: What repair options exist?: How much time do you believe each option will take?: What level of involvement could new members have in these processes?: What is your overall outlook on the feasibility of us repairing daybreak with such a capacity that we could pass scrutineering in FSGP 2025?:

Trial Workday Plan:

System	Plans
Aeroshell
Fergo
Dynamics
Emech

✅ Action items

Jason Heston Aidan Hodgin Continue practicing surface modeling in Solidworks
Noah Hickman Joshua Miksits Start modeling a basic frame (make it adjustable by using reference sketches, global variables, and equations); look at roll cage designs
Harshit Dalmia Start making a skeleton reference sketch for dynamics (make it adjustable by using reference sketches, global variables, and equations)
Parthiv Shah Continue working on new pack/box design - refine design; come up with replacement enclosure for Daybreak