Keep up to date with concepts, builds, and progress for a Hyperloop Pod designed by an awesome set of freshmen, sophomores, and juniors from NYU Shanghai. We are an officially surprised competitor invited to the SpaceX Hyperloop Student Competition Texas Design Weekend. Our goal is to learn, take risks, and do useful things.
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Introducing powerhouses Sean Kelly (prototyping, IMA, NY), Kelvin Liu (robotics, CS, NY), David Santiano (design, IMA, SH), and Shahn Shamdasani (batteries, EE, NY) to the team. Omer, Bradford, and Tristan are on-location point men in Shanghai for in-person consultation. We are employing a flat hierarchy composition for adaptability and shared purpose. The entourage is here, tasks are live; the NYU Shanghai Hyperloop Team is pumped!
The journey has just begun. But you can see it taking shape. It's time to make the impossible possible.
Welcome to Texas AM Design Weekend. Long road ahead. Ecstatic!
In or not, still eating that info up: plane experiments, stronger materials, and water-salt batteries. Waiting on the results.
In the meanwhile check out this documentary on Shanghai's own Transrapid system on
YouTube!
Night and day, polishing the preliminary design briefing.aaahh Keeping it top-level and level-headed. Let's do this!
We've been getting into the nitty gritty -- I mean that Siqing has been working pretty hard on a Kantrowitz Limit writeup. Michael is learning Autodesk Inventor while on a little trip. Richard made a sketch for IR sensors using Arduino Unos.
One would imagine you could just design something and have it immediately exist. Since that doesn't happen, we'll need to get cost estimates for our materials and parts, one email at a time. Corporations here we come..
Drafting a CAD model of braking mechanisms. Stopping a large can going several hundred kilometers per hour is not a low-force thing.
Pinning down what we want for the airframe and the interior. Tristan and Michael drew up some confidential sketches!
Long discussions on the integral concepts. Maximize friction? Regenerative braking? Drag-on-demand?
Look at this circle with lines all over it. This is a Hyperloop tube cross-section in two dimensions. This blueprint means the playing field is known. Team members: find the official PDFs in the Slack.
As SpaceX takes in requests for how they will build the test track, we wait for a release on more info. In the meanwhile, the many-man physics department is doing individual run-downs on aeronautical engineering.
Welcome to NYU Shanghai's Hyperloop logs! We will be using a simple GitHub Page to share our progress and updates. Thanks to Tristan for setting it up and continuing to manage the page.