Archive for October, 2009

Arrival of NI Hardware

Opening the Box

Today a large shipment of control hardware arrived from National Instruments today. NI kindly sponsored a whole range of equipment including a CompactRio, touchscreen and modules for the CompactRio, and the team (especially Alec and Toby) are itching to play with them! This equipment is effectively the brain of the car, and will be programmed ...

Rolling chassis coming along nicely!

Rear View of Suspension and Motor Plates

From Friday 23rd October, RGE's engineers have been going up to Radical Sportscars to help assemble the "car parts" of the car i.e. all the suspension, steering column, brakes, bodywork etc. This is due to be finished at the end of this week, and then will then come down to London for final kitting out of ...

Amazing RGE Day

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Hi, I'm Clemens and I'm the Chief Operating Manager for RGE, which means I manage all the logistics for the team. I would like to tell you about RGE's very exciting day yesterday... Firstly, all our batteries have arrived safe and sound all the way from Thunder Sky in Shenzhen, China. Despite the fact that ...

CAN development kit arrived!

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For people whom CAN sounds chinese: Cars have a lot of sensors: a speed sensor in each wheel, temperature sensors, pressure sensors, accelerator sensors, motor controllers, etc. To reduce all the low voltage signal wires that are connected to these sensors, car manufacturers use CAN (Controller Area Network).  CAN can be seen as an internet in ...