RISD Rover 2018
RISD Rover is a club founded by industrial design major students in Rhode Island School of Design. The goal of the club for each year is to design and build a 2-person Human-powered vehicle to participate in the NASA Rover Challenge held in Held in Huntsville, Alabama each Spring. Each team gets 2 chances to ride their rover across the track. Scores and earned by the time, going over obstacles and completing tasks.
The 2018 race's tasks consists of:
Collecting 3 liquid and 3 soil samples on site.
One rider taking photos of another rider installing a solar cell.
"STORAGE"
is a storage container designed and fabricated by the storage team: Jeff Shen, Leah Yao.
GOALS:
Fits inside the Rover.
Store 8 sample containers (3-soil, 3-liquid, 2-extras)
Prevent cross contamination
Store a camera with color filters
Fast & Easy opening and closing
Lightweight
CONNECTIONS:
The storage is strapped and fixed onto the chassis with velcro.
The flaps are sewn with magnets on the edges so they snap onto the chromoly tubings.
This connection provides a very strong grip yet the fastest to open/close.
