Week #2

This week, we met up with Ron to discuss what we're trying to construct for the full scale track team. We went over a lot of ideas about how we're going to construct a 24 meter long track. Instead of going the whole 24 meters, which is the ideal design from column to column, our team is only going to work on a 10 foot section of the track and try to come up with tests to understand different elements. These elements consists of vibrations, strength, materials, sturdiness, rigidity, etc., for designing parameters in preparation of an actual 24 meter long track. Ron also talked to us about the Futran - Milotek company from South Africa and how they're constructing their own Solar powered automated tram. We were able to finally visualize and comprehend what we're trying to achieve with this Spartan Superway. With these notes and a good talk with Ron about what we're trying to do, we decided to look at already existing models and ideas from the past and gathered our own thoughts together for what is to come next. For the remainder of the class we just made brief sketches and organized our ideas as a team.

Rough sketches below: