Visual Analysis

Week 9 Update

Week 9 Accomplishments

• Finished putting the bike together 

Steven and Jason met up Thursday afternoon to finish the back two triangles of the bike frame. With the two back triangles finished, the group has finished assembling the bamboo bike frame together. Next week, we plan to sand the bike and applying a coating of polyurethane

Sanding the Bike 

Bike Frame fully Assembled

Week 10 Goals 

• Visual Analysis by Jason Peterson
• PowerPoint Presentation by Steven Bui 
• Final Report Revisions by Seamus Kelly and Alan Liu 
• Clean up the bike frame by entire group 

Week 8: Working on the bike in the afternoon

Applying Epoxy

Applying Fiberglass

Almost done with the frame

Week 8 Update

Week 8 Accomplishments

• Cut up the last remaining pieces of bamboo for the bike

Work on the bike has been kept at a minimal since several member of the group had a big in-term exam to study for on Friday. The only work done on the bike before class on Friday was cutting up the remaining pieces of bamboo for the back two triangles of the bike.

Week 9 Goals

• Try to finish up the bike 
• Visual Analysis 
• Fix up Final report 

During class, the group agreed to meet up later in the day to work on the bike to start putting the back two triangles on to the bike. Alan and Seamus have been put in charge of working on revising the final report while Jason has agreed to do the visual analysis of the bike when the bike has been completed. 

Week 7 Update

Week 7 Accomplishments

• Finished the first triangle of the bike 
• Finished the first draft of the final project proposal 

On Monday and Tuesday, the group met up outside of Millennium to finish the first triangle of the bike. The group met up a third time on Wednesday to divide up responsibilities when it came to starting the first draft of the final proposal. Individual members of the group would write their sections on their own time.

Front triangle

Week 8 Goals

• Cut up pieces of bamboo
• Start working on the back two triangles of the bike

During class, the group discussed what needed to be done by next week. Many members of the group will have a midterm next Friday, so it was a agreed that work on the bike will be kept at a minimal until next Friday afternoon. It was agreed that at the least the group would cut up the last remaining pieces of bamboo for the bike. 

Working at the Machine Shop

Reference for the bike frame

Disassembling the bike 

Hard at work

Assembling the bike

First piece of the bike drying

Week 6 update

Week 6 Accomplishments

• Chopped up the bike
• Cut up some of the bamboo into the necessary lengths 
• Worked on joining the bamboo together using fiber glass and epoxy

The group decided to meet up early on Wednesday morning at the workshop and start cutting up the bike. By the end of Wednesday, we had cut up the bike frame and started working on putting together the front triangle of the bike. 

Week 7 Goals 

• Write up an initial draft of the final report
• We will probably finish the front triangle of the bicycle by Monday. 

During class on Friday, we discussed what needed to be done by next class. Our biggest goals was to finish up the front triangle by Monday. We also plan to work on the initial draft of the final report on Wednesday night. Finally, we decided to leave the visual analysis until after we have finished the bike.

(Part A and B plus thickener)

Steel Bike frame that will be chopped up

2 Different weights of fiberglass roving

Week 5 Update

Week 5 has been a week full of tests and assignments that the group was not able to meet up outside of class and work on the project.

Week 6 Goals :

• By the end of week 6, we hope to have started putting the bike together.
• Alan is finishing up his research on bamboo.
• Over the weekend we hope to do some visual analysis using the same programs that were used to analyze the bridges in Engr 102 

During class, we discussed what need to be done by next week. The most important goal that we set for us that was to start cutting up the bike frame and start assembling the bike by the end of next week.

Week 4 Update

Week 4 Accomplishments:

• Acquired bamboo, fiberglass, and epoxy
• Completed Leadership project video and quiz 

Outside of class, Steven was able to acquire some bamboo from some old friends and Jason was able to get some epoxy, fiberglass, and a old bike from from his home. 

Planned to be done by early next week:

• The team will be testing the various strengths of Bamboo 
• Jason will be working out the specific dimensions of the bike 

Inside of class, we discussed some of the tasks that needed to be done by next week. Alan and Seamus have been assigned to do some research on bamboo and find quantitative data on the strength of bamboo. Jason was assigned to work out the specific dimensions of the bike, so we can start cutting up the bamboo.  

Bamboo has arrrived!

Bamboo

The fiberglass and epoxy has arrived.

Week 3 Update

Week 3: Change Up

Near the beginning of the week, our group met up outside of class to discuss whether we want to continue on our original project or to go in a different direction. As a group, we have decided to change up the focus of our project . We decided instead to create our own bike, more specifically a bamboo bike. As of right now, we have confirmed we have access to the fiberglass and epoxy to keep the bike together, but access to bamboo has yet to be verified. Verification on the access to bamboo will known by Sunday at the latest.

Goals for Week 4:

• Leadership Project Video and Quiz
• Blueprint of the framework of the bike

During our meet up in class, we discussed that we needed to find or create blue prints for the bike and to complete the leadership project quiz by next week. We also discussed how we are going to get the material needed for the bike and who is getting it. 

Week 2 Update

Week 2 Accomplishments

• Set up the blog with all the necessary pages
• Completed and uploaded the design proposal
• Created a rough initial sketch of the machine 

Our group are all close friends and we generally find ourselves meeting up all together on a regular basis. During one of our meet ups outside of class, we were able to start and finish the design proposal. Each person was assigned at least two sections to complete in the design proposal. At this meeting, it was decided that Steven was to be put in charge of the setting up and maintaining the blog. Jason would later upload our initial sketch of our machine.


Task to be finished by Sunday, April 12, 2015:

• Complete teamwork survey if not you have not done it yet
• Write a quick bio on the biography page and also add a picture of yourself.
• Start on 3D model

During the meet up in class, we decided that our meet ups in class were to be used as time discuss what needs to be done by next week and who needs to do them. Some of the tasks that we set for ourselves to be done by next week our listed above.

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