3D Printing or additive manufacturing is an emerging manufacturing method that allows people to create complex structures and features previously impossible to create with other methods. Essentially, a thermoplastic material gets pushed through a hot extruder and is deposited onto… Read More

Team Power House is excited to start connecting and testing our different subsystems in the coming weeks! Pictured above is the newly built second iteration of our structure with the linear actuators wired up for testing. Having this structure completed,… Read More

The team has entered into a month solely focused on development. So far we have been able to do a complete redesign and build of the structure frame. After testing the first frame, we determined that we needed it to… Read More

We made it to our first major milestone of the semester: Qualitative Review Board #1! Our team presented to a panel of judges on the status of our project and our plan moving forward. Although we have a lot to… Read More

Team Power House is glad to be back! Right before the Fall semester ended, we were able to build the structure frame and motorized door. The picture shows us in the process of making the magic happen! We are eager… Read More

Team Power House had a strong finish to the Fall semester as we presented our System Level Design Review to our classmates, coaches, and liaison engineers from FPL. We are thrilled to unveil all of our hard work and respond… Read More

With Prototype Inspection Day now in the rear view mirror, the team is working hard at taking the feedback into consideration and making adjustments to our overall design. There were three major takeaways that we gathered from Prototype Inspection Day: … Read More

For our the prototype inspection day, Team Power House has much to show! We have been working hard on designs, and we will be presenting one large prototype in hopes of acquiring useful feedback. We plan to present our charging… Read More

We live in a world where we are bombarded with electronic devices that require daily charging.  Plugging and unplugging these devices has become so second nature that we can practically do it with our eyes closed. However, imagine if every… Read More

After two weeks of intensive preparation, we finally gave both our Preliminary Design Report and the respective presentation to the FPL liaisons. The PDR was a 53-page culmination of our ideas, research, and individual contributions over the last 8 weeks. In… Read More