Tricycle construction notes and resources
Tricycle construction notes and resources
This isn't a normal blog post. Normal blog posts are typically rarely updated. I intend to update this fairly regularly as ideas occur to me.
Composite techniques resources
Learning from CAD
Learning from CAD
As I reported in my last essay on the tricycle project, I now have a CAD tool which I'm learning to use. So, learning to use it, I'm beginning to be able to visualise the tricycle, if not yet concretely, at least as an assembly I can look at and study. And doing that brings up several things.
That removable subframe
Details, details
Details, details
Thinking about how the tricycle will go together means thinking about a lot of details. One of the first thing that needs thinking about in detail is the four-bar linkage, since if that does not work the whole idea does not work and there's no point in investing quite a lot of money in laying up the hull.
Drawing the tricycle
Drawing the tricycle
I have, as I wrote in my last post, real difficulty with learning 3d modelling software. Every system I've tried has a really steep learning curve, the commercial systems are extremely expensive making them very hard for me to evaluate, and some of my cognitive quirks just get triggered when trying to use them.
Things which are blocking the tricycle project
Things which are blocking the tricycle project
The tricycle project is extremely experimental and ambitious. It may not work at all. It may work technically, but I may not like it. It may work technically, but I may not be well enough to make use of it. If I commit to it, it will cost all my spare resources of both time and money for probably a year.
So let's once again lay out the things which are, for me, at present, blocking it, and consider whether those are reasonable; and, as part of that process, consider the steps and milestones which are needed to achieve a working vehicle.