Week 8: Discussing with AJ and the the Summer half-scale team

This week, we considered looking towards an active solution for our passive design to fix the swinging motion that occurred in the rapid prototype as the pod car would experience acceleration. We brought up that a complete revision might be necessary, however after talking to AJ and the  Summer half-scale team, we found that we may be able to use an actuator to lock the linkage in place while accelerating. The actuator can then be used to drive the natural motion of the linkage in an active way and controlled way with an accelerometer  and gyroscope.