*WE ARE BACK TO SCHOOL*
Approximately 110 high school students in 22 teams are expected to attend the 12th annual UNSW SunSprint challenge, proudly hosted by Sunswift along with the UNSW Faculty of Science. Held on Friday the 3rd and Saturday the 4th of September, teams from high schools across New South Wales battle it out to see who can [...]
Would anybody like a background of a solar car driving through the Australian outback?
Hi readers, We just uploaded some backgrounds! Well, only one really, but we did a bunch of resolutions. If your resolution isn’t here let us know and we’ll make one up for you. 1024×768 (4:3) 1280×1024 (5:4) 1440×900 (16:10) 1680×1050 (16:10) 1920×1080 (16:9) 1920×1200 (16:10) We hope you enjoy them.
CeBIT was a blast!
Helga and Ian at CeBIT. The team had such a good time talking to CeBIT attendees about the car and the team last week. We gave out a whopping 500 brochures for people to read. We want to thank the CeBIT organisers Hannover Fairs for all their help and goodwill.
Sunswift is going to CeBIT!
We’re excited to announce that Sunswift will be in full force at CeBIT Australia 2010. CeBIT is Australasia’s largest gathering of the Business and IT communities at a single event. Over 550 premier exhibitors and 37,000 highly-qualified delegates will be present and we’ll be mingling with experts and like-minded individuals from all over Australasia. CeBIT [...]
Race Day 5 – Thursday
IVy on the finish line. Summary With 567km to go before the finish line, and MIT hot on our tails, we had a big day ahead of us. If we wanted to make it straight to Victoria Square we would have to arrive in Angle Vale before 3pm. We arrived at 3:08pm. Not only were [...]
It’s picture time!
IVy going around the track at Hidden Valley the day before Scrutineering IVy at the starting line of WSC 2009 The team enjoying their burgers at our campsite near the Devil’s Marbles Clara and Helga at the control stop at Kulgera Around here we call this the money shot
Race Day 4 – Wednesday
Summary We passed MIT at about 3pm and are now the number 1 silicon solar car in the race! We’re 5th in the whole race, and 4th in Challenge class. MIT are about 10 minutes behind us so we feel the pressure but are running the race how IVy needs it to be done. Tomorrow [...]
Race Day 3 – Tuesday
Summary We covered 681km today. No issues encountered at all, and we were cruising on average at 90km/h. We gained about an hour on MIT today and are hot on their tails for the top silicon car in the race. Mechanical No issues. Electrical No issues. Camp We managed to pull into the 10 minute [...]
Race Day 2 – Monday
Overall Progress Off at 8:03am, 3 minutes late, we sped off from camp without a snag. We covered around 600km, over 100km more than yesterday. Throughout the day radio protocol was tight, the fleet was safe and strategy performed well. The array damage was tolerable, and we managed to gain 30 minutes on MIT. They [...]
Race Day 1 – Sunday
Summary We started off without a hitch, so much so we decided to take a nap about 2 hours in just to give some of the other teams a fighting chance. In reality we stopped for a driver change and to fix up the telemetry data, which got knocked out. We managed to gain back [...]
