Week of 4/10/2019

This week the team had presentations on Wednesday, so the focus was on preparing for the team presentations. The team has also been manufacturing its parts. For the guide arm, the only thing needed from central shop services was water jet cutting, so the next important step is to start welding. For which the team took one hour training on Friday. Akash and Jaspreet now both have cleared the safety quiz to get access to central shop and eng room 123. The team is working hard to finish up manufacturing as soon as possible, which is made easier thanks to new tools in the Makerspace/Superway area.

Articulation:
This week we managed to get some parts manufactured at the central shop. the parts that were manufactured include parts to build the housing of the articulation system. there are still more parts that need to manufacture but unfortunately the water jet is under maintenance and we will not know when it is working again. the parts that we did get manufactured have been sanded down and are ready to be welded together

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