2018 Solar Car Challenge (SCC) Scrutineering - Day 1
Today began with a flurry of activity as we check our solar car into the garage at Texas Motor Speedway and started the exhaustive...
The 2018 Solar Car Challenge is finally here!
Today we managed to finish up all the suspension work from the night before, trailer the car over to Texas Motor Speedway, check into the...
A hard day's night!
We are down to the last night before registration begins at the Solar Car Challenge and we still have so much to do. All of the...
Finishing up the new high resolution telemetry system
This afternoon, Michael Currie came back by and helped train Jake and Shannon on the setup and administration of the Raspberry Pi based...
Road testing - day 7 cruising around Timarron Cascades in Colleyville while testing out our new tele
This afternoon, Michael Currie who is an engineering student at UT Arlington helped us set up a Raspberry Pi based server system that is...
Road testing - day 6 between Justin and Mineral Wells
Today, we had a new lower gear ratio and a fresh night's sleep and we were to ready to head out for Snyder, TX again! We did realize a...
Road testing - day 5 between Justin and Mineral Wells
Today, we finally started road testing on the first leg of the Day 1 Solar Car Challenge race route. We had high hopes of reaching all...
Road testing - day 4 between Weatherford and Mineral Wells
On the way back to Fort Worth from visiting the Grandpa Bo and Granny Pat in Eastland, we took the car out again to validate whether we...
Road testing - day 3 between Weatherford and Mineral Wells
This day of testing involved changing out our gearing to a lower ratio try and lower energy consumption per mile. However, the road test...
Road testing - day 2 between Weatherford and Mineral Wells
Today, we continued our road testing and tried to determine if we could resolve the intermittent 48 volt electrical issues that we had...