Great Navel Orange Race Jet Boat
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 9:22 pm
The Great Navel Orange Race (GNOR) is an annual competition held at UCF every year for the second intro to engineering course. The project involves students building a boat, submarine, or other watercraft that autonomously carries an orange around the reflection pond. The TI Innovation lab that I work in is providing students with TI microcontroller boards (MSP430f5529) and sensors for use in their watercrafts. These components empower students to control servos, provide signals for high power relays and ESCs, measure angle change relative to starting angle, look at accelerometer data, and more. I decided to build my own boat for the competition to test these components, to provide an example to future students, and also of course, for fun and the educational value.
I designed, built and tested a wooden boat hull and a 28mm water jet drive. You can see the details on these assemblies and download the templates/files in the following topics:
22" Deep V Mono Hull: https://www.radicalcreation.com/forums/ ... ?f=11&t=13
3D Printed 28mm Boat Jet Drive Unit: https://www.radicalcreation.com/forums/ ... 3&p=49#p49
The Innovation Lab has also provided a github repository with all the code needed to get started. I have typed up a readme file providing step by step instructions to help students get started. This can be found here:
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/UCFInnovationLab/GNOR
In this topic, I will be posting updates as I develop and refine both the electrical system and the controlling code.
I designed, built and tested a wooden boat hull and a 28mm water jet drive. You can see the details on these assemblies and download the templates/files in the following topics:
22" Deep V Mono Hull: https://www.radicalcreation.com/forums/ ... ?f=11&t=13
3D Printed 28mm Boat Jet Drive Unit: https://www.radicalcreation.com/forums/ ... 3&p=49#p49
The Innovation Lab has also provided a github repository with all the code needed to get started. I have typed up a readme file providing step by step instructions to help students get started. This can be found here:
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/UCFInnovationLab/GNOR
In this topic, I will be posting updates as I develop and refine both the electrical system and the controlling code.