Our great little project manager

Cape Town, Wednesday 19th October 2011 - At breakfest the mood for the day is set. Although we are on a serious trip, some things have to be said. Herald thinks this important.

 

Helpers away, our project manager is thinking on new policies ..., yes again. It's his habit.

 Our project manager is only human. So, sometimes we catch him having other than professional thoughts.

Mens sana in corpore sana (*)

Cape Town, Thursday 20th October 2011 - Of course the body should be maintained as well. Some go swimming, others play badminton.

Besides the project work, it is important to relax and to connect with the local people.
Officially this is badminton, but for players who are used to play on the northern hemishpere special king size bats have been developed.

(*) A healthy mind in a healthy body.

The sleeves rolled up!

Cape Town, Thursday 20th October 2011 - At last, the presentations are over. The teams can get to work.

Tjeerd is helping the South-African team by soldering high tech direct subtrate connected components to a 3 phase motor controller designed by the HydroPulse team.


 This is a state of the art machine which can laser cut blank circuit boards to create a physicyal pcb from a computer design withing a minute.

Visiting the CPUT International Office

Cape Town, Thursday 20th October 2011 - On our way to security to get our ID-cards we passed the CPUT International Office. Just before the Dutch flag is hoisted The HydroCruisers make a groupphoto. And of course, under the direction of our fun engineer the result is not ordinary.

It's not hard to guess who our fun engineer is.

Dinner served at lodgings

Cape Town, Monday 17th October - Here you see the food from Sweet Chilli Pepper being deliverd in our own lodgings. Wow, very good service indeed!

Sorting out the deliveries. As hungry Dutchmen we attack the delicacies.

Video conference between Cape Town and Delft

Cape Town, Thursday 20th October 2011 - Now it is the turn of The HydroCruisers to give a presentation on their car. Problem was that the car is standing in Delft and not in Cape Town. Ah, but modern technology enables live communication between both places about 10,000 km apart. The members of the HydroPulse team made an interactive virtual tour along the vehicle in Delft.

 The participants of the video conference. On the wall the live images from Delft.

Video conferencing on engineering topics is fun!

The audience watching the video conference happening.

Visiting the workshop of the Hydropulse team

Cape Town, Wednesday 19 October 2011 - Here The HydroCruisers meet te members of the HydroPulse team in their very own domain. In this lab the ecocar of the South African team is assembled. The plug is prepared for further  processing.

Mechanical engineers of both teams gathered around the plug of the HydroPulse team.

Please, Maurits, do admit that you did not build this plug on your own!

Discussing the iternerary or some other important document.

The electrial engineers of The HydroCruisers team inspect inspect the fuel cell of the Hydropulse team.

Mechanical engineers have a talk amoungst eachother.

The plug of the HydroPulse team in status nascendi.