Interiors F2020

Saturday, September 19 @ ?:?? pm

Wednesdays @ 9:00 pm

Problem Statement

Design and bring to manufacture an interior space for MSXIV which maximized the practicality score of the vehicle during competition while not limiting usability or comfort. Historically, solar cars have been an efficiency-first endeavor which does not put much precedent on the occupants' comfort. MSXIV's interior design shall strive to be a balance between form and function. 

• Improve and finalize the internal bookkeeping of spending and sponsorship income. Also, implement all monetary spreadsheets into this spreadsheet.

• Accurately report all the crowdfunding activities.

• Don’t go dark on social media for 2+ weeks - ever!

• Raise $20,000 CAD in monetary funding for sponsors (external + internal)

• Reach out to 50 companies to ask for sponsorship

• Designing and building the door hinges, latches and the interior of the panels (structural aspects)

• Completed detailed design and currently working on design for manufacturing and assembly

• Designing and building the front and rear seats as well as the ballast containers

• Completed detailed design and currently working on design for manufacturing and assembly

• Designing and building a cover for the battery box that rests on top of MSXIV’s catamaran

• Completed detailed design and currently working on design for manufacturing and assembly

• Designing and building the dashboard of MSXIV

• New Fall 2020 project and will start with concepting

• Designing the carpets on the floor, chassis tube coverings and headliner / roof coverings

• New Fall 2020 project and will start with concepting

• Designing an infotainment system for MSXIV (24” touchscreen, looking at expanding on the Strategy team’s app + additional features)

• New Fall 2020 project and will start with research and problem definition

• For all mechanical related work, we use Solidworks 2019 (note that there is no backwards compatibility, so make sure to use 2019)

• CAD files are shared via GrabCad.

1. Slack is the main hub for all communication. Interiors Channels you should be a part are:

   1. #mech-interior (for all interior related discussion)

   2. #mech-interior-displays (for all UI/UX project discussions)

   3. #mechanical (for all mechanical team discussion)

   4. #cute-animals

• Our short-term task tracker where work is delegated from

• https://trello.com/b/F7SdhEEB/mech-interior

• Zoom (I'm sure everyone is well aware of what this software is now) is where our meetings are hosted from.

• Links to join meetings are typically shared in their respective slack channels and also in #meetings

• Where other files are stored. Typically G Suite documentation like spreadsheets, slides, docs, etc.

• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mTB05GdzoTxcDpE9awEW3MNa5lKMXUd1