The final week of IPPD has arrived for Gator Waves! An unexpected issue (misplaced glue) in a mechanical part of the design caused unexpected test results, but this was ultimately resolved. Test data was able to be collected regarding a… Read More

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… Read More

With FDR (Final Design Review) coming up soon, Gator Waves spent this week continuing to make progress towards completing the project. The PCB layouts for the current drivers and instrumentation amplifiers were finalized and ordered. Unfortunately, the expected delivery date… Read More

This week, Gator Waves continued working towards the completion of the final design. The mechanical engineers helped with repairing a broken solenoid, as well as protecting the fragile wires of the shielded cable by applying a glue coating. They also… Read More

Gator Waves began this week by preparing for Prototype Inspection Day, which was Tuesday, March 22. On Monday, the electrical engineers were able to debug the issue with the DAC and FPGA connections so that the striker rod could be… Read More

With preparations for Prototype Inspection Day underway, our team was busy this week picking up from where things left off before spring break. The mechanical engineers manufactured aluminum baseplates for the bronze bushings, wound the middle solenoid, and finalized the… Read More

This week, Gator Waves continued moving forward with the project in preparation for the upcoming Prototype Inspection Day. The electrical engineers worked on testing the DAC with the SPI module that has been implemented on the FPGA. Also, last week… Read More

Gator Waves spent this week participating in the QRB 2 event, as well as making progress on implementing the final prototype design. On Monday, the team met with Dr. Subhash to discuss the work completed last week, as well as… Read More

Gator Waves spent this past week continuing adjustments to the prototype. The mechanical engineers worked on modifying the starting position of the striker rod to be more reliable so that measurements of the rod’s position using the incremental encoder can… Read More

This week, Gator Waves continued to make steady progress on the project. The electrical engineers focused on the control system FPGA code and testing. This involved determining the VHDL implementation for the transfer function that will generate the necessary outputs… Read More

On Monday morning, our team met with Dr. Subhash to discuss the solenoid inductance measurements taken last week, some design changes based on the magnetization of the striker rods, and the takeaways from QRB1. On Wednesday, the incremental encoder was… Read More

While continuing to make progress with the project, this week Gator Waves also prepared for the QRB1 event held on January 25th. Our team presented the project milestones that have already been accomplished, as well as detailed plans for completing… Read More

Gator Waves has continued making good progress on the project this week, opting to meet with Dr. Subhash on Monday morning to discuss some adjustments to the design plan and receive his feedback. The electrical engineers met several times this… Read More

This week, Gator Waves jumped right back into working on the project. The team met last Wednesday to discuss plans for the spring semester, including manufacturing timelines, resolving issues with the solenoid and striker rod interaction, and improving the facing… Read More