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University of Strathclyde: Battery Development Team

cheryldocherty — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 17:51:42 GMT

Our battery design has come a long way from last year’s competition, with main advancements relating to BMS data recording and case modularity.The cell model we have chosen to use is the HG2 from LG. It boasts a high continuous discharge current of 2...(read more)

University of Strathclyde Eco-Vehicle: Powertrain Development Team

cheryldocherty — Fri, 31 May 2019 15:10:49 GMT

Our powertrain development team is responsible for creating all electrical aspects of the drive system in our electric prototype vehicle. The team is made up of a series of development sub-teams tackling distinct modules which come together to provid...(read more)

Introduction to University of Strathclyde Eco-Vehicle (USEV)

cheryldocherty — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:37:45 GMT

Hello! I’m Cheryl, Co-Head of Electronics for the University of Strathclyde Eco-Vehicle (USEV) Team. We are a society whose aim is to design, manufacture, test and race a highly efficient Electric Vehicle to compete in the Shell Eco-Marathon (SEM). T...(read more)

Tiny Mega Land: The Place Where Drawings Come to Life!

8bitsandabyte — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:44:49 GMT

www.youtube.com/watch Project details:https://www.hackster.io/8bitsandabyte/tiny-mega-land-the-place-where-drawings-come-to-life-d87450 (read more)

TLM02e prototype battery pack part II

tlmoto — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 17:45:51 GMT

In the first part of this topic, we showed the process that lead us to the sizing and configuration of our battery pack. In this post, we are going to go through the process of adapting that batterypack to the motorcycle, how the first version of bat...(read more)

TLM02e prototype battery pack part I

tlmoto — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:58:23 GMT

One of the hardest part (at least for us) of building an electric motorcycle is the development of the accumulator and respective container. The sizing of the battery is not the only problem, designing a safe and simple wiring...(read more)

Introducing Avalon's ROV

khaled63 — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 12:36:14 GMT

Testing and developmentThroughout the project we have experimented with a variety of designs and prototypes to arrive at the ideal design for the missions that we have. A good example of this is the actuator that we have designed to balance a platfor...(read more)

The future of precision agriculture: A low-cost, battery-free, WSN using RFID technology and drones.

sdaskalakis — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 13:18:54 GMT

Would you like to see this IoT proposal developed further? Head over to our University IoT Challenge voting page to help this project get turned into a reality. Modern agriculture applications necessitate cheap, low-maintenance and low-cost wir...(read more)

IoT-Enabled Hearing Protection Device

yingzhang — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 15:06:52 GMT

Would you like to see this IoT proposal developed further? Head over to our University IoT Challenge voting page to help this project get turned into a reality. 1. Executive SummaryAn IoT-enabled hearing protection solution is proposed, and a n...(read more)

E.L.L.A. - A Voice-Controlled Lifestyle Assistant for the Long-Term Housebound

alandross — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 16:56:57 GMT

E.ffective L.one L.ifestyle A.ssistant Would you like to see this IoT proposal developed further? Head over to our University IoT Challenge voting page to help this project get turned into a reality. The principle concept of E.L.L.A. is to...(read more)

PetBud - May Update

__ryanmcclure — Fri, 11 May 2018 13:46:52 GMT

So far a few problems with regards to setting up the board have been encountered, these are discussed below: Challenges In order to setup and configure the WaRP 7 board there are an array of procedures involved which can vary in their stages de...(read more)

Introduction to TLMoto Racing Team

tlmoto — Fri, 11 May 2018 11:46:50 GMT

TLMoto is a team of students from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal. Our main goal is to build a fully electric motorcycle to participate the Motostudent International Competition, which happens every two years in the Motorland Aragon Moto...(read more)

Avalon ROV: April Updates

khaled63 — Fri, 11 May 2018 10:15:47 GMT

The team has been hard at work during April with the focus on preparing the robot for testing very soon. We made some great progress on the electrical system and the manipulators. Electrical UpdatesHaving received the PCBs and the electronic com...(read more)

Introducing PetBud - A smart, friendly feeder for your pet.

__ryanmcclure — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 14:19:38 GMT

BACKGROUND As part of our embedded system class project at the Ulster University we undertook some market research to see if any new avenue of innovation could be found aside from what is currently available for the smart feeding of ...(read more)

Introduction to Avalon ROV Team

khaled63 — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 11:47:18 GMT

We are a team of multidisciplinary engineering students from the University of Sheffield, participating in the MATE ROV Competition. This is a competition to design and build an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to carry out missions based o...(read more)