New Blog Design And More Updates!

Good evening, catch can fans!

It's Matt here again with another update on the OAVS capstone team project.  In case you haven't noticed our blog has a new look to it.  I decided that the old layout was a little too dark, and didn't look quite as polished as it could, so I spent a few hours figuring things out last week and tidied it up.  Among the additions is a slideshow on the right hand of the page which is linked to our Picasa/Google+ photo album.  I've traded in the long winded description of our project for a simple link to our capstone team page on the University of Maine team page, but enough with the website.  You're reading this because you want to know what the progress is on the project.  Well the team is steady creating CAD models for everything that doesn't already have one.  Jon is working on the wiring diagram for the data acquisition system, and Forest is putting the finishing touches on our very own catch can design. Dan is designing a housing for some of the wiring that's inside the data acquisition and I've been focusing heavily on all things web related as well as getting the word out about our project.  We have a 3D .pdf file of revision A of our catch can, but I'm currently fighting with getting it embedded into a blog post, so I will make sure to add that in our next update if I figure it out!

Until Next Time!

7 Weeks Until the Deadline!

Good Evening Everybody!

It's Matt here checking back in to let everyone know how our capstone has progressed since our last update.  My apologies for leaving our loyal viewers hanging the past couple of weeks, we've been back and forth on reassessing what we're up to and have hashed out a plan for the rest of the semester!

As it stands right now Forest and I will be working on developing the design of our catch can at the same time that Dan and Jon are testing our donated cans.  We've sketched out some preliminary drawings of what we think will work for our can, and Forest and I will be doing the math to back up our theories.  Our bench needs a little bit of tidying up, but once that's completed Jon and Dan will be running the flow bench and pulling numbers.  

By the end of this semester we plan to have all of our donated cans tested and compared, as well as have a prototype can of our own which we'll have tested and compared to the donated cans.  Stay tuned for more exciting updates!