Since the 2nd blog post, I became part of the inter university correspondent team. We are planning on establishing connection with the team that worked on the small scale model over the summer from Korea. Furthermore, I attended the dinner on Friday, 9/18/15, where the J Pod CEO, Bill James, came to offer some advice about the project. He showed us some of the software that models what the rails would look like in an actual city. Furthermore, he also had other programs that showed items such as wait time, time of arrival, etc. They were all very powerful tools that I could definitely see being implemented into this project.
In addition to the J-Pod meet up, I also helped with the dis-assembly of the 1/12th scale model, assembly, and presented the scale model at the 43rd Annual Silicon Valley Electric Vehicle Show & Drive Electric Week. In doing so, I was able to learn more about the track and the bogie itself. I was able to run the code that the team from Korea wrote on my laptop. There were a few complications during the event, as the bogie would fall off the track multiple times. This was caused not only by the unevenness of the track, but the piano wired used for the switching mechanism was not making full contact with the switching servo. This caused the bogie to not fully engage in the switching mechanism. This problem will be taken care of in the next few weeks.
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