My Olin Mad Libs Adventure: A Normal Day in the Life as a Formula Member

By Hugh Keenan, Ava Possidente, and  ___(first name)___   ___(last name)___!

I stayed up all night working on my _(component of a car)_ and I’m so _(emotion)_ to show my formula lead and best pal, _(name of Oliner)_, what I spent _(number)_ hours on, for it was my time to present on my design review! When I was done presenting, I showed them a simulation of my _(body part)_ exploding. _(Oliner from before)_ was so proud of how I did that they jumped in the air with joy. “_(exclamation)_!” They proclaimed. “This _(noun)_ just might be what we need for the _(part of a car)_, and it might even solve world hunger!” Clearly this had to become a business model, so I ran to the LPB to figure out how to _(verb)_ its manufacturing process. I started by looking forlornly at the tools. I began touching the things. They were _(material)_. Probably. Except for the parts that weren’t. _(name of different Oliner)_ told me to attach the beams together. I did not know how to that _(adverb)_. Duck tape or _(plural noun)_ seems good. I think wheels are for the weak. We don’t need them. I’ll just throw them into the bottomless pit we built two _(plural unit of time)_ ago. I’ll throw my sorrows in there too for good measure. In exchange I have unlimited access to a plethora of _(plural noun)_. That aside, I _(past tense verb)_ the beams together. I accidentally lit some _(plural noun)_ on fire in the process though. But as _(Oliner from before)_ always says, “you can’t _(verb)_ on the _(noun)_ or else the _(noun)_ will get you down.” And I’ll bet my _(body part)_ they’re right! And this is why I don’t need a life outside of formula, because as you can see, I have all the _(plural noun)_ I could ever need.

Olin Electric Motorsports Update

Olin’s formula team is gearing up for another competition season in the Formula SAE Collegiate Design Series. This year we will attend either Formula SAE Electric in Lincoln, Nebraska from June 21-24 (currently waitlisted) and/or Formula North in Toronto from June 1-4 (accepted!). Students and professors can rejoice as we will not be at competition in the middle of finals week this spring!
You may have noticed we changed our name. With the team’s transition over the last year from research to competitive racing, it seemed a fitting time to rebrand. REVO (Research of Electric Vehicles at Olin) has been replaced with Olin Electric Motorsports. On campus you can just call us Formula. Now when you wear your REVO branded gear you can feel like one of the cool kids, here before we started racing.

Mk. 2: The Technical Breakdown
With the many, many lessons learned in designing and building Mk. 1, we have chosen a system architecture for this year that should reduce our high voltage complexity and cut system weight dramatically. Here are the specs:
107 horsepower
425 lbs dry weight, 600 lbs gross vehicle weight (GVW)
Enstroj 100 kW Emrax 228 outrunner motor
BAMOCAR-D3-400-400 motor controller
Chain drive Torsen differential transmission
Chain drive steering
Multilink rear suspension
20+ custom designed PCBs
High-speed CAN bus
Continued robust firmware development
Live vehicle dynamics sensing and feedback
And more exciting projects in the works!