Electric Ninja

This quarter Alex and me are working with a few people to build the motor and battery mount. The design and fabrication will be my senior project at UW and everyone else is getting 499 independent credits. We're planning on cutting out the aluminum plates for the mount at the school's water jet CNC machine.

We've been learning a lot about how to fabricate such a complicated mount set up to fit the warp 8. It will involve press fit bearings and an intermediate shaft between the motor and the drive sprocket. There are new pictures in the photo gallery.

In recent news, Alex cut out the bottom of the old gas tank and painted it a new clean white color. Future work will be done on the remaining fairings.

The agenda for this quarter:

-Do FEA on the motor mount

-Determine placement for the controller, DC-DC, and charger

-Build the battery frame after I get exact specifications on how the BMS will be set up

-Fabricate the motor mount with UW's water jet