Cams senior project

            The past few days have been a tremendous struggle and have taught me a lot about building stuff yourself in the difficulties and setbacks that you run into when creating mechanical things such as an e-bike. I spent most of the day trying to come up with ways to reverse the polarity of the motor as well as come up with little fixes for my bike that I hadn't checked off the list yet. The little things included stuff like how I was going to run the wires throughout the bike as well as mounting up the throttle and ignition key for the bike. in the future I think I'm going to move the ignition key onto the frame of the bike instead of the handlebars so there is less clutter in the cockpit. I also realized that I was going to have to make a chain tensioner that I will create in the next day or so. Hours: 5:00 Total: 55:50

             Day 11 was very short due to the fact that it is a Saturday this cut my work time down by few hours. I only had about 3 hours to work on my project today and this was mainly due to the fact that Gordon had to go to kayaking, all that aside though I was able to complete a lot in those three hours. I start off my morning Gathering all the material is for my seat I headed up to Greg shop and found a piece of wood that perfectly fit in between the frame rails of my bike. This piece of wood would be the base to my seat I also receive some foam from Will, a fellow student who is also doing his senior project in the metal shop. I'm using a piece of canvas as my seat cover, although I haven't put my see together I think it will be extremely comfortable and cushion my ride just a little bit more. The second half of the morning I spent putting all my electronics in I was able to put everything in to the bike and finally see the first section of...

            Day number 10 was very productive I finished up all the little Loose Ends that'd been on the checklist for a while. today was spent with a lot of welding end routing of wires. all the small pieces that were tacked onto my frame I ran full beads on to increase the strength and durability of my bike. I spent an especially long time with this Center sheet metal that I am using for brackets this stuff may be hard the world but it makes the bike a little bit lighter. in this case I decided that dinner sheet metal would be a much better fit for my project to keep the weight down in all reality metal is a very strong and durable material especially when it is put under load. As you weld metal it pulls end stretches the material out slightly as it cools down creating tension in the frame as well as brackets which is extremely beneficial for what I'm doing. Hours: 6:05 total: 47:50

            Today was a good day I'm feeling very confident in the build, as well as finishing on schedule. In the morning I headed over to the shop to finish up the few things I need to do with the drivetrain. Define a few things I need to do our create a mounting plate for the speed controller as well as welding the last two seams for the drivetrain. These are all things that I will accomplish tomorrow and should be pretty simple and straightforward. After all this time building this bike my worlds have become increasingly better as the days pursue. This only gives me more confidence in riding the bike and it not breaking or decomposing overtime. In the afternoon I had a very busy schedule with a few appointments that I had to go to but I believe I have most of the materials that I need for the Cosmetic end of the bike. This includes plastics, new tires, and a seat cover which is just some random fabric I found at my house. For the Plastics I headed ...

            Day number eight was very short because it was a Wednesday, not giving me a lot of time to complete stuff. none the less I have finished the drivetrain completely. Even though on day seven I had a lot of setbacks what is metric and standard sizing, I worked it out. I now have all the gears in the right spot so I will be able to run a metric chain on one side and the standard chain on the other. although it took me and Gordon quite a while to get everything perfect call Mama it was completely worth it. I was a little bit shaken up after I realized the sizes were different but I'm glad I persevered and made it all work in the end it was just a small setback that taught me just a little bit more about what you can do in a machine shop. Hopefully, once my new standard size chain comes my bike will be completely functional, even if it doesn't look that pretty yet. I plan on getting materials to make a seat as well as getting plastic sheeting to ...

           Today was not a very good day I started off the day by getting to the metal shop excited to finally finish the drivetrain of my dirtbike, But then it all took a turn for the worst I got an email from Alex saying my package had arrived meeting that I would have all the components to complete my drivetrain. You would think this would be a good thing but when I got back to the shop I tried the chain and realize that the sprockets that I had ordered or metric end the other sprockets or in fact standard or iso. I think I might have had a bit of a mental breakdown in the shop after that. Realizing my mistake Gordon proposed a new idea, I could counter fit the sprockets in a way in which the metric sprocket and chain that I had would run to each other and the standard sprockets would also run to each other instead of having standard to metric, metric to standard. This conversion took Gordon and I the rest of the day and I still have a little bit of...