No Stress No Failure - Capstone

Over the work period of February 4 - February 18, the team continued to make small tweaks to the design in order to more easily manufacture various components. All materials necessary to begin machining the device have been acquired, and have been handed off to the machinist at Iron Ring Technologies. The team is currently waiting for the components to be machined. Iron Ring has guaranteed these items to be machined by the end of February at the latest. Team 7 has also updated CAD designs and drawings for various parts of the Camera Cooling System (CCS). This includes the external aluminum rod casing (Figure 1), the removable case lid (Figure 2), and the polycarbonate sheet lens (Figure 3). For the removable case lid (Figure 2), a lip was added to allow the lid to be more securely attached to the body of the case.  A challenge for Team 7 during this work period was altering the existing design so that the components can be machined. To get around this issue, Team 7 worked directly ...

Over the work period of Jan. 17 - Feb. 4, materials were ordered from the budget list in order to begin manufacturing the cooling system. 90% of the materials are currently in possession as shown in Figure 1, and the materials will finish delivering by February 4th. Figure 2 shows the budget list with the items in possession highlighted green.  For thermal oven validation testing, Team 7 acquired a wireless thermometer, small enough to be inserted in the Camera Cooling Device above the Go-Pro. This thermometer will be used to measure the temperature inside the cooling case throughout thermal oven testing and will be used to evaluate the cooling effectiveness of the design. With the wireless thermometer acquired, the team was able to begin testing the device to ensure it can accurately collect temperature data within the range required (up to 110 °F). The thermometer was put on a layer of wax paper on top of a metal baking sheet and put in an oven. The oven was set to 170 ° F, and t...