Welcome to Marine Challenge 2011!

Kings Top dog for 2011

The race day was a great success with 80 students from 5 Gold coast schools all with amazing digital creations. These RC boats are weapons on water exceeding 60KPH and backed by very professional teams. The Gold Coast Digital Manufacturing Challenge is growing and here to stay. Get your school involved for next year.

Race day is on us......

Race day is tomorrow 10 November 9am - 1pm. Come and have a look at young design engineers in the making. You will be impressed. Thanks to industry support and sponsorship, School participation, Teachers, and students in bring this to our three year of competition .......David Oswald

Finishing touches to the Kings Rockets

Students and teachers work flat strap to bring all manufactured component together ready for race day.

New Marine Challenge Vac Machine

The Challenge has a new toy that is capable of vacuuming complete decks and also hull moulds and racing hulls fron abs check it out. This Vac Machine has been designed and manufactured from this Challenge initative by challenge schools.

Resin Infusion Update

Kings team had some problems with resin infusion stage. We attempted to use polyester and thin with acetone, new resin batch works ok but older resin thickens. Two problems resin one and two even vacuum. Fix was to setup Vac Bags as per photos. Electrical spiral on transfer medium and no baby blanket just us plastic vac bag as vacuum capsual. Vacuum is contained only in the transfer medium resin runs from transom to nose in about 60 sec. Works a treat......

New Pics

Plug and Mould

Attached are the five plug designs for Nerang SHS marines challenge Rc boats.The students are working away at completing their moulds ready for vacumme formed.Keep posted.

Hull Designs

At Southport State High School our Year 10 Graphical Design students have been busy experimenting with twin-hull boat designs. They have used our rapid prototyping machine to create scaled-down versions of their designs. We used polystyrene foam for the rapid prototyping and then vacuum formed the hulls to create a rigid exterior that could then be placed in water and trialled.From these processes the students made modifications to their designs before they were sent to Kings for CNC production. Next year we will be in a position to produce our own and other schools hulls using our CNC Router.Our students are now in the processes of preparing their hulls to create moulds for production.This week we will be sending the boat decks to Kings for CNC production and vacuum forming.