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.