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Thoughts of a curly Salvadorean sailor wearing Crocs: May 2012
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Thoughts of a curly Salvadorean sailor wearing Crocs. A blog dedicated to follow Roberto's crazy thoughts and random projects. Sunday, May 20, 2012. Last friday was the very first annual Tech Dinghy Challenge at the MIT Sailing Pavilion! Next House (my old dorm) put together a team for this event full of craziness, sailing and burgers (how could I miss it! Points were awarded for burgers eaten, people in boat and crossing time. Here is a pic of us before putting the boat in the water. At some point I was...
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A Procrastinator's Playground: How to Make a Battery Pack
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012. How to Make a Battery Pack. First go on the internets and buy some LiFe cells. I specified LiFe cells because those are the ones that I used. You can buy some directly from the A123. Two cells in parallel. Two pairs in parallel. Small packs of 2s2p. Two 5s2p packs;. Positive, negative, positive, negative, positive. You should now be done gluing the cells together and you should be left with 5 pairs of alternating polarities hot glued together. Notice the first pair of batteri...
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A Procrastinator's Playground: May 2012
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Monday, May 14, 2012. My first semester sophomore year I decided to buy an arduino. Microcontroller so I could play around with it and learn how to use it. In order to teach myself the basics of the arduino language and microcontroller I gave myself a project and started googling everything I could about it. I wanted to change the color of an RGB LED depending on the music coming out of my iPhone. I used an audio jack. And its breakout board. So I did. Thanks Roberto! I'll probably write a post about Sci...
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A Procrastinator's Playground: CholoCycle Engine take down and battery mock-up
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013. CholoCycle Engine take down and battery mock-up. And I have been wanting to make an electric motorcycle for the longest time. This summer we actually started planning and budgeting everything out. over the last couple of months we had been craiglisting and going over different places in MA to spec out bike but couldn't find an appropiate one. About 2-3 weeks ago we were fortunate to receive. We brought the frame back to MIT and the next day starting gutting the bike. Look at...
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A Procrastinator's Playground: September 2012
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012. So a couple of months ago I went back to Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Which is not in SoCal even though most people think that whenever I mention "Baja California" - -. Anyway, I stayed there for a few days only so I could attend my sister's high school graduation (she's going to Princeton! Wooo) During those days, I learned that one of my friends, Juan Bustamante. Clearly, they thought it would be awesome if I brought it and motorized it so I could race against Adrian.
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A Procrastinator's Playground: January 2014
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Thursday, January 16, 2014. Dismantling, cleaning, and welding CholoCycle. Hey guys, a lot has happened since our last blog post. We bought an AC-20 Motor. Which should arrive very soon. We also got a AC motor controller from SevCon. Someone tried cutting the frame. The first thing we did after taking the fairings and seat off was to make a mock-up of our motor. We conveniently found a PVC pipe that was around the same diameter as our motor. Motor model fits pretty well. Motor model picture from top.
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A Procrastinator's Playground: Go-Kart
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Motors: Two 149kv Turnigy Motors. Controllers: Two 24v 250W Brushless E-bike and Scooter Controller With Hall (from this guy. Will soon be replaced with two KBS36101 controller. Batteries: 40 volt 6.6 amp-hour A123 pack. November 28, 2016 at 4:03 AM. I really enjoy the blog.Much thanks again. Really Great. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Why Dgonz Is Wrong. There was an error in this gadget. Dismantling, cleaning, and welding CholoCycle. View my complete profile.
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A Procrastinator's Playground: TinyCycle!
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012. So a couple of months ago I went back to Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Which is not in SoCal even though most people think that whenever I mention "Baja California" - -. Anyway, I stayed there for a few days only so I could attend my sister's high school graduation (she's going to Princeton! Wooo) During those days, I learned that one of my friends, Juan Bustamante. Clearly, they thought it would be awesome if I brought it and motorized it so I could race against Adrian.
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A Procrastinator's Playground: November 2013
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013. CholoCycle Engine take down and battery mock-up. And I have been wanting to make an electric motorcycle for the longest time. This summer we actually started planning and budgeting everything out. over the last couple of months we had been craiglisting and going over different places in MA to spec out bike but couldn't find an appropiate one. About 2-3 weeks ago we were fortunate to receive. We brought the frame back to MIT and the next day starting gutting the bike. Look at...
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A Procrastinator's Playground: Dismantling, cleaning, and welding CholoCycle
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Thursday, January 16, 2014. Dismantling, cleaning, and welding CholoCycle. Hey guys, a lot has happened since our last blog post. We bought an AC-20 Motor. Which should arrive very soon. We also got a AC motor controller from SevCon. Someone tried cutting the frame. The first thing we did after taking the fairings and seat off was to make a mock-up of our motor. We conveniently found a PVC pipe that was around the same diameter as our motor. Motor model fits pretty well. Motor model picture from top.
