Gator Waves used this week to continue preparing for FDR (Final Design Review) and developing the final design. The team worked on completing the rough draft of the FDR report, as well as getting peer feedback on a practice FDR presentation. Also, the poster design was finalized and sent to IPPD for printing.

The mechanical engineers spent the week adhering additional strain gauges to key parts of the design in order to better characterize stress wave propagation in the system. Also, they completed manufacturing all the necessary components and finalized the alignment of the assembly.

The electrical engineers continued to work on characterizing the timing of the controller. After collecting data of repeated test runs measuring the time when the striker rod impacts the incident bar, it was determined that a timing repeatability within 177 μs has been achieved with the current iteration. Moving forward, adjustments will continue to be made until the desired 50 μs is ultimately achieved. Also, the PCBs arrived earlier than expected, so those were assembled and tested!