ECE 110/120 Honors Lab Section : Red Wrangler

Statement of Purpose

Please provide a brief description of your project. List the goals and objectives of your project and explain why this project is useful for the problem your group want to solve or functions that make your project unique. 

Due to the eradication of most online classes, we must trek to class daily. Because classrooms are far from students’ homes, students often get sweaty and smelly by the time they get to class. Professors want their classrooms smelling nice. In order to achieve this goal, our group set out to design an affordable alternative to get to class easier. We are solving the problem of personal hygiene by making a motorized children’s wagon. We feel this is a cheaper alternative than other commonly used forms of transportation. Skateboards and bikes are expensive, so we are taking a children’s wagon and attaching a motor to the back axle. 

Background Research

Please provide details on the background research your group has done for your project. Explain what drives you to work on this project and/or why this project is important. Also include discussions on any similar projects your group have looked at in coming up with your project. How is your proposed project different or similar to those your group have looked at. 

One thing that motivates us is the challenge to be able to get our kart wagon moving while holding a full-sized person. We saw many past projects that include motorized cars, but they were on a much smaller scale. We feel like we are up to the challenge of expanding this project idea to a larger scale design that might aid the issues of transport on campus. 

We have done research on the individual parts that must come together in order to form a functional motorized vehicle. Our electronic speed controller will adjust the current that passes through our motor. That ESC will take a sensor as input and pull a current from our two batteries wired in parallel. 

Gearing math:

2750_rpm x (11teeth/18teeth) = 1680.6_rpm

When rotating at max speed| 1680.6_rpm * (1/10560)miles * pi * 60min ~=  30mi/hr

Block Diagram / Flow Chart

Provide a simple block diagram of your hardware design. A block diagram is a schematic graphic that shows the interactions between different components in a hardware or software system. If appropriate, please also include a flow chart showing the steps your design needs to go through to function. The online program draw.io is a great tool to create polished block diagrams and flow charts. Likewise Microsoft's visio is also a great program to create block diagrams and flow charts.

System Overview

Provide descriptions to your block diagram and flow chart. State the purpose of each block.

Parts

Provide a list of parts that you may need for your project. You should include details such as the quantity, model number, purpose, vendor, and price (excluding taxes and shipping) for each part. This list may change as you work on your project. 

• Wagon for the base of the vehicle.-1

-https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/271370194361449/?referralSurface=messenger_lightspeed_banner&referralCode=messenger_banner

-$20

• Electronic speed controller-1

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001588716844.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.bc123c00r0Rt4T&mp=1

-US $13.00

• Battery-2

-20V

-”Free”

• Electric motor-1

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000709698788.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.bc123c00FjxCJI&mp=1

- $32.96

• T8F Chain Sprocket-1

-https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001280575608.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.bc123c00Vb34iE&mp=1

-US $8.34

• T8F Chain

     -https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32988426817.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.bc123c00GM6FVn&mp=1
  

     - $5.12

• Throttle

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000718047601.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.bc123c00r0Rt4T&mp=1

$10.99

• Pillow blocks 

https://www.walmart.com/ip/2pcs-KP000-10mm-Bore-Zinc-Alloy-Inner-Ball-Mounted-Pillow-Block-Insert-Bearing/212899140

$10.32

Possible Challenges

Please list some of the challenges that your group foresees in working on your project.

Some possible challenges in this project include making the wagon start and stop, making the wagon turn(even if we have to resort to using a metal pole like an oar to steer.) With the new budget cuts, and places we can obtain parts from. Finding the right parts has become significantly harder.

References

List all references you used in your proposal. This is important, you do not want to be blamed for plagiarism. IEEE citation format is highly recommended. You can use citethisforme.com's IEEE citation generator to painlessly generate your references in this style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DolF0v0FNYs

Final Project

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qhVzUddqtLP87bI_Xh-fx8p723_bPv2o8l9BUl93jwc/edit?usp=sharing