All 3 Drive and Steering Units Installed

Someone seems to have stayed up late and put together all three steering/drive units and installed them on the car!










More work on the railing, too.

More Progress

Simon gives the aluminum surface a swirly pattern.


Lars adds a wood railing, which is soon to be painted.


Kevin has started putting together the wheel mechanisms.

Machined Parts

These freshly-machined parts are dying to be put together!

Circuit Boards Arrive!

The circuit boards arrived from the printer...

Front:


Back:


The motor control schematic can be found here

Starting on rails...

Cut out the railings today. Decided to go with 3/4 inch MDF. We needed 13 inch wide board and the widest we could find conventional wood (for a reasonable price) was only 11 inches. Additionally MDF has no knots so it should actually allow for a smoother, cleaner edge when we are done. Also picked up some black paint and boat varnish.

The next step will be to bolt it to the steel rails on the car, then sand it smooth, add a nice edge and paint/varnish it.

Inside Cladding Done!

Here's where the wheels will go:

Aluminum Seats

cladding almost done

kevin and i rocked casbah this weekend and put on the remaining cladding needed for the seatbacks. All that we need now are the seat bottoms.
On sunday we hit the machine shop. I actually did some work on the lathe (it was quite fun). This weekend we'll get the rest of the stationary cladding on and then start tackling the batteries & storage issues.