Update for week of November 14

Lecture has officially concluded and we have turned all ME 250 efforts towards our project. We have been working on completing all of the components of our most critical module, the scoring arm. The two end pieces of the rail support and the largest section of the arm itself were completed last weekend, with all of the smaller and more complex parts being the focus this week.  Here is a more detailed list of our tasks completed this week:

-Machining of many of the components for the scoring arm

-Researching the most realistic spring configuration for the locking arm

-Beginning planning of fabrication of the rest of the the machine

On Monday this week we'll be presenting the first 3 components of our scoring arm to our GSI for milestone 7, and we will be finishing our scoring arm so that it can be presented Wednesday for milestone 8. This week will consist of a lot of design and machining on our parts.