Week of 11/14/18

For the week of 11/14/18 we met with professor Furman to get insight on how we are doing so far with our project. He gave us good advice on what we still need to improve and do further research on. Since we are not meeting for 11/21/18 we have developed extensive tasks for each other over thanksgiving break and everything is being communicated on Slack.

I will be looking into varying racking solutions for the solar panels, we have a preliminary design but other options are necessary. I will also be constructing a rapid prototype out of toothpicks to get a sense of what our finalized design might look like. While looking into potential sponsors I found that Sunpower has a university program that offer their products at a discount, we will be applying for that program and will attempt to approach them directly as well.

-Francisco Trejo

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