MARCH 2009 – The BAJA journey begins
Techfest and Kshitj (IIT Bombay's and IIT Kharagpur's technical fests respectively) are over and Team Unwired is thirsting for new challenges. BAJA SAE ASIA 2010 appeared to be a good platform to test our technical competence. The prospect of building our own ATV (All Terrain Vehicle) and to race it, seemed to arouse the engineers within.
It’s going to be a tough 10 months ahead and we need to get started from scratch. The big hurdle, as of now, is to get acquainted with the various aspects of car building. We have divided ourselves into teams-each responsible for studying a sub system of the car and to effectively teach what they learnt to the rest of the team. We have regular “UnConferences” on weekends in DB 319 (our beloved room in the Department Building (DB) fully equipped with projectors et al) discussing these aspects.
We have also decided to construct a go kart in order to get our hands dirty and to get ourselves familiar with vehicle fabrication techniques. For this purpose we paid a visit to” Kart Attack”, a popular go karting track in
