Sound impossible? So did the light bulb, the automobile, and the personal computer. This August, the UCSB HyperLoop Team will be one of only two dozen collegiate teams selected to compete at SpaceX and explore the dream of high-speed transportation via Elon's Musks "HyperLoop." The FASTEST pod to complete the course wins. Support the UCSB team and the dreams of this talented group of students! Don
ate $1 - $499: EVERY donor will be mentioned in the commemorative book. Donations of $500 or more will receive an official UCSB HyperLoop Team shirt. Donations of $1,000 or more will receive a shirt and a copy of the commemorative book. Donations of $5,000 or more will receive a shirt, the commemorative book, a company / other logo on the pod, and a chance to join the team at SpaceX! MORE INFO ABOUT HYPERLOOP
The HyperLoop is a proposed advanced method of high-speed transportation between cities that are approximately 900 miles apart (e.g. Los Angeles and San Francisco). The system uses a capsule that is propelled through a low-pressure steel tube as it rests on frictionless air bearings or magnets. UCSB's interdisciplinary team of 30 students and professors will be competing in SpaceX's Hyperloop Pod Competition in August 2017. The competition involves designing and building a pod to be tested on a track constructed at SpaceX's Hawthorne headquarters. Read more about the Competition here:
http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop
Support the team with a contribution of any size. Sponsors of $5,000 or more will have their logo displayed on the pod. More...
Hyperloop is UCSB Capstone’s largest interdisciplinary project, consisting of a team of electrical, computer, and mechanical engineers. The team works together to overcome the various challenges of the project, such as controlling the systems of the pod, supplying power to the numerous subsystems, and taking into account the staggering thermal implications of working in a near vacuum environment. These challenges could not be delegated to a single discipline and instead required collaboration between disciplines to be successful. The team is split into smaller task groups for each subsystem: structures, magnetic levitation, power distribution, sensors and controls, braking, and thermal.
