Tommy Heyser – Mechanical Team Leader
Tommy leads a team of student-mechanical engineers and oversees all mechanical projects on Sunswift IV, including: Maintenance of existing mechanical system, e.g. front and rear suspension, steering, wheels and hubs, and brakes; Design, manufacturing, and assembly of improved brakes system and new wheels and hubs, new steering column; and Liaise between suppliers, sponsors, and mechanical [...]
Sunswift: There’s an App for That
Winning a race requires much more than a fast car– more often than not, winning a race comes down to logistics and effective communication amongst the team. Over the past month, we’ve been working on a mobile app that allows the team to receive real time information related to the car and communicate with one [...]
Sunswift members report on Altium training
This week Tommy and I attended a 3-day training course run by Altium. As one of Sunswift’s sponsors, Altium provides our team with software licensing and periodic training sessions to assist us in our PCB design. We began our first day learning the basic layout of the software, the drawing tools and electrical tools. It [...]
Sponsorship Information
If you are interesting in becoming a sponsor, please contact us at contact@sunswift.unsw.edu.au to discuss sponsorship opportunities.
Our Sponsors
GOLD The Faculty of Engineering of the University of NSW provides the UNSW SRT with a monetary grant, use of a range of facilities as well as valuable advice and support. The UNSW SRT helps promote the faculty at events such as UNSW Open Day and Sunsprint (model solar car challenge). NICTA is Australia’s Information [...]
The Team
Sunswift is a university student-led solar racing team. thirty students from the Faculties of Engineering, Science, and Business at the University of New South Wales volunteer their time and skills to design, build and race a state-of-the-art solar-powered car. We would not be able to exist without the generous funding provided by our corporate sponsors, private donors, and UNSW. People [...]
UNSW students break world record
The Sunswift team’s full year of planning, negotiating, and testing finally paid off yesterday. We smashed the Guinness World Record for fastest Solar-Powered vehicle by over 10 kmh. Barton Mawer officially broke the record at around 10:30am with a speed of 88.738 kmh. Runs continued until 1:30pm when rain prevented further attempts. The two official [...]
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 [...]
