Taking apart the bike, removed all parts except chain and cog Create rough drawings Start CAD for iteration 2 prototype
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Monday, Jan.14.19
Meeting with advisors Try to finish CAD by end of week (Jan.19.19) Try to finish mechanical design and machining by end of month (Jan.31.19) Leave February for testing and check if another prototype is needed Finish scoping parts for Electrical and Software aspects by end of next week Jan.25.19 Finish electrical design by end of …
Sunday, Jan.13.19
Purchased a used bike!
Saturday, Jan.12.19
Assembling our Prototype Today we put together the prototype we laser cut out of acrylic The biggest takeaways from this were: Need to stabilize the two circles Smoothen the path of the expanding pieces (perhaps add a third track) Figure out way to keep pieces assembled permanently Current (temporary) method doesn’t work as bolts/nuts keep …
We are IntelliShifter
We are a group of Mechatronics Engineering Students at the University of Waterloo. The team is composed of Ganan Prabaharan, Octavio Harris, Nikhil Boddhu and Po Jung Chen. Our goal is to prove the feasibility of continuously variable transmission (CVT) on bicycles. CVT allows bikers to choose from a continuous range of gear ratios. Taking …
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