Wednesday, April 4, 2007

[04.04.07] SENIORS! GIVE A MISSION UPDATE...

the story so far..

seniors have a wheelchair..

had a few gas powered engines.. but deemed not usable for our purposes.. too loud, fumes, etc..

decided upon electric motors (2)..

SENIORS.. UPDATE THE TEAM ON DEVELOPMENTS..... .... ... .. .

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

[03.28.07]MENTORS COMING THIS FRIDAY

MISSION UPDATE:
1) wentworth mentors are coming this friday. we must have a plan around what we are going to do when they get here. they have already been informed of our regular meeting room for friday (rm.044-- gilson's)

2) also.. got an email from prof. driscoll at wentworth:
....Have your students looked on ebay? A group that I had last year purchased one from ebay.
Fred Driscoll

can someone try this?

Sunday, March 25, 2007

[3.24.2007] NEW ENGINE

MISSION UPDATE: We have a new engine that oscar got.new engine its going to arrive to school on monday 26/2007.this engine is in a great working condition,because i tested on my own. its a murray 6.0 horse power


Thursday, March 22, 2007

[03.22.07] ENGINES HAVE LANDED!

MISSION UPDATE: martin and oscar have brought the 2 engines.. they are in the engineering closet (rm.012A).. we can begin working on them today 4th period..

Monday, March 19, 2007

[03.20.07]ENGINE BRANDS

Martin can you please

1) post the brand of the two engines that you have, so people can do research on what parts we need

2) how does it work, so people can get familiar with what we are going to be working with.

[03.20.07]MEETING ABOUT PROJECT BLOG

All the seniors that are doing the wentworth project need to meet with Mr.Prakash and MS. Wilson tomorrow, tuesday march 20, at 8:40 a.m. to talk about our new blog. Also someone need to email the mentors to see what are the opportunities to get a wheelchair from Wentworth Institute Of Technology."If they are donating the wheelchair".

[03.19.07]UPCOMING THIS WEEK.. GET ENGINES!

This thursday martin, guz and naomi are picking up the two engines. so if you guys want to work on the engines during four period or after school. also you guys can work on it on friday during third and four period

THE MISSION: OFF-ROAD WHEELCHAIR

design an off-road wheelchair so that an individual confined to a wheelchair could explore scenery beyond a paved surface. the design team would consider what would be necesary for such a wheelchair and how such a unit could be assembled. the wheelchair would allow an energetic individual to move over a grassy surface with some bumps and a slight incline. A one-quater size prototype could be built and tested with the help of our mentors from wentworth institute of technology,mike fisher and nick peterson.