Starlink Co. has yet again provided us with stickers and decals for Zephyr, free of charge. Starlink is a leader in digital printing, and the kind folks at Starlink even expedited our decals order so we can have them on the car before FSGP/ASC! Thank you very much for your support!
Saturday July 19th was CalSol’s first and last day participating in the Formula Sun Grand Prix 2014 at the Circuit of the Americas. CalSol successfully got Zephyr on the track on Saturday morning. We were able to get a few laps around the track but soon discovered an electrical problem that caused the car to …
Hello everyone! Sorry to keep you in the dark during this past week… if you kept up with our facebook posts, you’d know that this past week was filled with a whole lotta fixing for our team. The team arrived in Austin, TX with Zephyr that needed a lot of fixing. First of all, Scrutineering …
Going with the trend of honoring our top three sponsors for Zephyr / ASC 2014, this shout out is for Kreysler & Associates. Kresyler donated time on their 3 and 5-axis CNCs to machine our molds at free of charge.
What a rough week it’s been. The team had planned on departing to Austin, TX on Thursday morning. But as luck would have it, we blew out our braking system on Zephyr while testing on Wednesday evening. There were several fatal faults in both the design and implementation of the original brakes. ASC regulation states …
With the Formula Sun Grand Prix / American Solar Challenge 2014 approaching in just a month, CalSol is in the process of organizing a list of generous friends and company sponsors who made it possible for us to engineer Zephyr and to enter in the SunRayce. In particular, the team decided to give a shout-out …
A couple weeks ago, a few CalSol members met up with a staff from the Daily Californian, which is UC Berkeley’s largest student-run news organization. And on Wednesday, Nov 2oth, the article about our work went online as well as on the front page of the Thursday’s paper! Check out what the Daily Cal had …
We’re Famous… on our School’s Newspaper, the Daily Cal! Read More »
Greetings! We took a hiatus from blogging over the summer, but CalSol has been working hard over the last year to prepare for the American Solar Challenge 2014. As you will find out from our every-two-week posts, the team has acquired multitude of projects and talented members over the last few months who continue to …
Greetings! My name is Min Ju, and I’m the lead for the newly-created Solar subteam. Here is a sneak peak of what the Solar subteam and I have been up to.
