Budget

          Fall quarter will be spent defining the rough budget based on the parts needed in assembling the RC-car and was updated as parts were defined and included purchased items such as the motor and battery, currently the budget is estimated at $3374.81 including rental space, machine rental parts and labor as shown in Table B-1. The majority of the estimated budget is because of the rental of workspace and machinery as well as the cost of labor based on roughly 70 hours spent designing, manufacturing assembling and testing the vehicle at a competitive wage of $35/hour. Currently the funding sources are provided by the Central Washington University Engineering Department and the project members, Alex Vornbrock and Jack Stutz.

            As of period 4 of winter quarter the total budget of the project had reached a maximum of 4% of the total expected project cost, as all of the material used has been 3D printed and remained relatively small. Most all of the more major expenses were bought in periods 5 and 6 with the completion of the chassis, bringing the total budget expenditures to around 8-9%. The purchasing of the remaining parts and systems brought the total expenses for each partner to roughly 87-92%. The itemization of Table B-1 reflects the current expected total cost of the project and the percent of budget expenditure reflects the cost of the parts list. As of period 5, about 15% of the total budget expenditure was used in the printing or purchasing of parts and in period six all remaining parts were purchased and most arrived by period 7 for assembly of the vehicle, total budget cost has remained the same.

           Spring quarter some parts were needed to be redesigned to withstand the forces experienced during testing. No other parts were needed to be purchased and all PLA used was from team member's backstock and did not effect the overall budget for the project. Parts recreated were redesigned only with addition of material to compensate for breaking during testing.