Connectors Galore

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Spring is just around the corner, and so is the completion of our new electrical system. Thanks to Molex we now have a massive supply of connectors that will allow us to join all of our boxes and circuit boards. … Read More

Career Day for Girls

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Yesterday, NUSolar teamed up with Northwestern Formula Racing (NUFSAE) to introduce middle school girls to engineering as part of Career Day for Girls, put on by The Society of Women Engineers (SWE).  As part of the event, girls got to … Read More

Mechanical Design Meeting

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It’s amazing how fast time passes when discussing driver positioning.  Saturday, I was sitting in the computer lab having just modeled a rough ballast box that should hold our maximum required ballast of 30kg of lead shot.  This estimate is … Read More

Driver seat mock-up

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Today, we came to an agreement on driver’s seat size. Regardless of how wide a driver’s back-side may be, the space allocated has been designated as seventeen inches. This will mean edits to the current model in which Dan measured … Read More

How DO we find the time?

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Intelligent, but sleep-deprived: This is the first phrase that comes to mind when one thinks about Northwestern engineers. Add to the mix the design, construction and maintenance of an entire solar car — well, let’s just say the graph in … Read More

New Year Update

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Here’s an update on what we’ve been working on recently: The general design for our next generation car has been decided! We broke into 3 teams and designed several different models, then analyzed them all with modeling software to determine … Read More

Rayce photos!

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We’ve got some long overdue pictures from the 2010 North American Solar Challenge and Formula Sun Grand Prix up on the gallery page. Also, check out this video of the slalom test from scrutineering:

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