Technically, I know how a lot of things work. Making it work is another story.
In addition to someone showing us how to weld, two big things happened this week. The first was that the cost reports for the car parts were due. Us interns took on the job of finding the parts used last year, and reporting the current price. It was fairly tedious, but whatever.
The second was a Open Night event, which apparently the entire Polytechnic campus is involved in. For the Baja team's presentation, we showed off the car (duh). We spent most of Thursday fixing up last year's car, installing the wheels, shocks, and other parts, because this year's car is still largely unfinished.
On Friday, I finally saw one of the cars in action, and it's quite impressive. At an intersection, there is a corner filled with rocks, and they drove it around. Despite the bumpiness, that car could still go really fast. (I know that is what an off-road car is supposed to do. I've just never seen anything like it before.)
Sadly, the car broke about two hours in. Apparently, what happened was that one of the tires slipped/went on a rock, forcing the tire off the legs (not sure if this is the right word). Normally, the outward pressure is simply supposed to turn the wheels in that direction to compensate, but this time, the driver had already turned the steering wheel to the max. Somehow, the driver managed to not notice that one of his wheels was hanging uselessly to the side for a good 5 seconds.
Next week (starting tomorrow), I'm looking forwards to going back to working on the car and hopefully learning more welding.
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