Week 9

Charles, a member of my group, recently informed the rest of the team that Dr. Furman and Ron do not believe that our "shell" design for the solar racking system will be a feasible thing to do with the limited time and resources that the solar team currently has.  The solar team will now dedicate the rest of the semester towards having a much simpler design that will be guaranteed to work.  After ensuring that the base design is perfect, the team will be free to chase more ambitious, less guaranteed to work designs.  The simple base design that the team will make will be based off of drawings received from South Africa.

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