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MORE ON AI
Where LLMs Have Been Incredibly Useful Budget-Friendly Engineering Hacks One of the biggest challenges in Lemons racing is the $500 car budget cap. Very early analysis offered some guidance on cars that might have valuable parts because their are communities that still drive and maintain them. And there might also be some harder to find…
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SAFETY PREP II
Fire system install is mostly done. The 3 gold nozzles are placed per instructions. It’s a bit tricky since you expect the hottest places + fuel lines to be the riskiest. Most of the action is on the passenger side. In earlier cars, the fuel lines also run up into the engine bay near the…
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BRIBES
This might be the best use of AI so far. I’m happy to report that Claude.ai understands that these aren’t actual bribes! So here’s the response when asked about what makes for a great Lemons bribe – I understand you’re asking about “24 Hours of Lemons” – the budget endurance racing series known for its…
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CREATIVE BRIEF
Finalizing design, led by https://andreanhuch.com/. Will ask her to describe the process in more detail, but lots of iterations with Chat GPT, though final renderings were human-made in photoshop. Here’s the brief.
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SAFETY PREP
Making our way through Lemons guides on how not to fail tech/safety inspection. It’s fascinating to see how rules get codified to improve safety. A lot comes from existing motorsports standards and if you follow sports like F1, you can clearly see some of the safety improvements like the halo. It’s remarkable to see older…
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ECONOMY
A core part of Lemons is being able to generate additional budget for non-safety parts of the build, by selling parts from the car. In our case, nearly 50% of the build budget is comes electric motors. By 1987 the 924 had an electric pop-up sunroof, an electric actuated trunk lock, popup headlights and electric…
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AI + WIRING DIagrams
This ChatGPT o3 diagram below isn’t very helpful. I suspect a lot of this is going to be overcome if current LLMs are used as interfaces to existing design tools that already include a lot of rules and behaviors. That said, Claude (above) seemed to have better grasp on circuit logic as the image below…
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Beautiful BuT not quite there yet
One of the areas we’ve been playing with is “text to CAD” or “text to surface” with tools like Meshy or AdamCAD. Working with teams like Cove Architectures, gives a sense for why this might be hard. It’s one thing to get a great looking rendering, but it’s something else to get accurate surfaces and…
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SAFETY CAGE
The safety cage is the one thing we decided not to DIY. First, there is a tech/safety inspection to pass and the longest, most detailed section deals with details of the cage including use of force spreading plates, gussets, etc. Cages are designed for highest frequency crash situations – sure there is a small possibility…
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