{"id":1874,"date":"2011-11-27T21:10:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T01:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2011-11-27T21:11:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T01:11:28","slug":"apex-buggy-gets-some-funding-looking-for-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2011\/11\/apex-buggy-gets-some-funding-looking-for-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Apex Buggy gets some funding, looking for advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve mentioned the guys from Apex Buggy a couple of times in the rolls reports. \u00a0They are a group of mostly freshmen, mostly living in a new dorm called &#8220;The Residence on 5th&#8221; or &#8220;The Rez&#8221; for short. \u00a0Despite being on campus for only a few months, they&#8217;ve done an impressive amount of work towards starting a team including soliciting design and build advice from anyone that will talk, and doggedly seeking funding from private donations, and the various official channels. \u00a0They are also the organization that recently inspired us to once again consider making seed grants to new orgs (see the New Org Grants thread in our project zone), a discussion we haven&#8217;t yet concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, they&#8217;ve secured enough funding to get going and they&#8217;re currently planning their first build for the winter months. \u00a0Now&#8217;s our chance to help out. \u00a0Apex front-man Connor e-mailed me asking some specific questions, but I&#8217;d like to use the opportunity to generally improve our informational resources for new teams. If you&#8217;re reading this, you know a thing or two that could help a new team. \u00a0Take a moment and either:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Edit one of the Reference pages below to share generally-useful buggy info with the community<\/li>\n<li>Email info@cmubuggy.org with tips or suggestions and we&#8217;ll do the ground work of sharing them with Apex and adding them to the Reference section<\/li>\n<li>Email Apex&#8217;s front-man Connor directly (cmhayes@andrew.cmu.edu) if you want to get your advice straight to the customer<\/li>\n<li>Post a comment on this post with your favorite tip or trick for building a buggy or getting to raceday with limited funds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>Specific Questions from Apex<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;At the moment we\u00a0need carbon fiber, a vacuum pump, and a vacuum bag. Those are the big 3<br \/>\nthings to get started. \u00a0Do you know any alumni specifically who could help\u00a0us get those materials for good prices?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;If there is anyone out there\u00a0who wants to talk to us about carbon fiber, lay-up schedules, directional\u00a0weaknesses, twill vs straight weave and all of that stuff it would be\u00a0greatly appreciated.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Reference Section pages to work on<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These pages are just beginning. \u00a0Anything you can add in terms of which tools and materials are most important, good suppliers for critical materials, or cheap and clever substitutes for expensive specialty tools and materials would be super helpful!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/reference\/How_to_start_a_buggy_team\">How to start a buggy team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/reference\/Materials_to_build_a_buggy\">Materials to build a buggy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/reference\/Tools_to_build_a_buggy\">Tools to build a buggy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good luck Apex, hope to see you out in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve mentioned the guys from Apex Buggy a couple of times in the rolls reports. \u00a0They are a group of mostly freshmen, mostly living in a new dorm called &#8220;The Residence on 5th&#8221; or &#8220;The Rez&#8221; for short. \u00a0Despite being on campus for only a few months, they&#8217;ve done an impressive amount of work towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buggy-alumni-association","category-general-interest-buggy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}