Nov 8th. weekly update

This past week we presented our most critical module. We compiled the bill
of materials, the manufacturing plan, as well as the engineering drawings
we will need to show the shop before we can begin manufacturing. We also
made some modifications to our CAD solid model, due to some suggestions at
the Design Review.

During our meeting with our GSI one of the main things we discussed was the
tolerances we had indicated on our engineering drawings (on the order of
0.001). The instructor suggested that although tolerances that small are
definitely possible, she does not believe they need to be so small for our
purposes.

This week, we will begin the manufacturing on 3 parts for our next
milestone assignment. The manufacturing of these 3 parts must include the
use of 3 different manufacturing processes and 2 different materials. We
are uncertain which 3 pieces we will choose to manufacture yet because of
the assignment restrictions (2 materials etc), we will most likely not
follow the steps of our manufacturing plan.