Blog 11/7/2018

Over the last weekend Professor Furman had told the team that it would be cheaper and quicker idea to just buy a pre existing wheel, cut out the center, and then mount the motor within that. I decided to do some digging into that idea, but I wasn't able to find wheels that I was satisfied with. Also, I'm unsure of how structurally sound attaching the motors to the center of a preexisting wheel would be. I talked with the team, and we've come up with a new design. Instead of a two halves of the wheel coming together over the motor, we're going to design one part of the wheel as 3/4 of the way across the motor and have a thinner plate on the other side. This would be an easier thing to manufacture, and it would also solve the problem of joining the two sections of the wheel.

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