Kettering University EE Capstone (Solar RC Car)

Kettering University Summer 2008 EE Capstone. We built a solar powered RC car. We had to design and build the chassis, select a DC motor, solar panel, build power maximization electronics, make it all work, and race the other teams.

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• Kettering
• University
• Solar
• power
• solar
• powered
• car
• rc
• ee
• capstone
• electrical
• engineering

[svbln]

what wood u use to make the chasis ?

[rcostheta]

@svbln balsa wood, light, cheap, easy to use.

[SKEL45]

that a good idea charge it for two day and then race

[rcostheta]

Except that we didn't have any storage devices and only used the energy that was instantaneously available...

[JohnFritzler]

What is the name of the song that starts at 2:15?

[levip1611]

congrats

[thiago497150]

How electronic circuit work? Reducing voltage and incresing current for climbs and acelerations?

[Naturepheonix]

Wow complicated stuff here.....

Haha your team pushed it so hard!

[bam4003]

I did a similar job as my ECT final project.

I just took a Nikko RC car 1:16th scale car that used 4xAA batteries and used a LM317 circuit to charge the batteries when I switch the motor off. The Solar was attached to the rear as a "spoiler" and it looked good.

The only problem was it took a while to charge. The bottom line was I got a A for it. =)