Our first track design was to have four strip and six disk magnets on the track. While our trains first design was to have one strip magnet on each side of the train with four disk magnets. It was a lot of magnets and we couldn’t even fit that much.
The problem that our group faced was that our train was to heavy so it didn’t levitate. Also, we faced another problem. It was that the track magnets were not lined up with the train magnets so it didn’t levitate. So we revised these problems by making an even amount of magnets on the train and the track. (One magnet on each side of the track and train.) But the amount of magnets on the track wasn’t enough to make the train levitate. So we added one more strip magnet to each side of the track. Now there were two strip magnets on each side of the track. This worked.
The final design of the track was to have two layers of strip magnets on each side of the track and for the train, only one strip magnet on each side of the train. This worked because the track magnets were lined up with the trains and that the train wasn’t too heavy.
The thoughts I had while designing our maglev train were… being very stressed and overwhelmed by all the ideas my group had, another couple thoughts I had were thinking about what to improve, and finaly, being pleased with the amount of progress overall. This was our journey through the EDP experience.
