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 2020 Project Highlights

As the school year started my advanced engineering teacher had the crazy idea of participating on the shell eco marathon, which is basically a competition where you and you're team are supposed to build a car that consumes the least amount of fuel possible. I got in-charge of the electronics, which was basically the horn, the kill switch and the ignition system, I will not be talking about all of this in this post only the highlights.

One of my first assignment of the year was to work on the horn's circuit, so here's a photo of what I came up with. I used the appropriate electrical signs, and I learned a lot from this project.

This is the final result for the diagram, which includes the battery, the horn, the button, the relay, the fuse, and the wires of course.

After finishing the diagram for the horn, I started learning about fuses, so I began to watch a bunch of youtube videos that talked about selecting the correct fuse size. I even used the formula and all.

After learning about fuses, I made the concept for the horn using the following:

This is how I executed the diagram, take into account I did not have some parts like the relay or the fuse, I did it to get the general idea of it.

When I finished the horn I started doing the concept for the ignition system, Mr. G my Engineering teacher told me that this was fine:

After doing all the circuits, Mr. G suggested that I should start learning a programming language called Matlab which is basically a programming language focused on numbers. The purpose of this was to calculate the Miles Per Gallon using a machine learning model.

This is the photo of me signing up for the 30 day free trial.

And this is Matlab's interface with some basic operations.


This is the last thing I did on Matlab, an "fprint" function.








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