I hadn’t realized how long it had been since I last wrote a post on this blog; my goodness. We’ll start with some Solar Car news: We have two beautiful shells, amazing bulkheads, and a hell of a lot of more work to do.

After countless hours at NWA (and I mean countless) we were able to finish off the top and bottom shells with many minor setbacks. Then after a sleepless night (7pm to 5:15am followed by an 8am class…) we had composite bulkheads! They are definitely a thing of beauty, and fit wonderfully in our shells. This last weekend we glued the bulkheads into the top shell, and layed up a lip on the bottom shell to seal the seam where the bottom shell sits on the chassis. This weekend we are planning on joining the top and bottom shells, and after many months of manufacturing, we’ll have one, unified, glorious shell!

Unfortunately, this stuff is all still “top secret” until we official unveil the car, so I can’t post many pictures. I suggest watching these two flickr streams, what you see there is what you’ll get until we go public.

In other news, I’ve picked up a new project. I’m now the lead developer and partial owner of LandOrSlum.com, a landlord rating website. The site started in Pittsburgh and has expanded to dozens of states throughout the country, currently boasting over 800 users and 600+ ratings. The site was written in Ruby on Rails. I’ve been brought in to bring about a bunch of new features, and we’ve decided it will be beneficial to do a complete rewrite of the application.

Besides all that, I’m still working for the College of Liberal Arts Webteam (CLAW!), and am taking all Aerospace classes this semester. Those classes are Aerodynamics, Flight Dynamics and Control, Aerospace Structures, and Instrumentation Laboratory.

I don’t think I’ve ever been so busy in my life. I love it.