Week 10: Angle Grinder

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We are finally mounting the motor today. We are doing everything vertically meaning it will all be in a straight line and are adding a gear to create torque and tension to generate more watts. Also, we are using a piece of steel from the old solar car to use as the base for our motor. This is going to turn out great!

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