This week was a slower week in terms of personal progress, due to a variety of factors. One such factor was that I was expecting feedback on our design presentation to incorporate into my structural design and design report, but I have not received feedback yet. As a result, this has caused some delay in my part ordering, structural design changes, and design report writing.
Despite those challenges I was able to start some work on two of the three tasks above. Firstly, I was able to put in some part orders for parts for the gantry. The gantry is an existing design (https://www.instructables.com/4xiDraw/) that we are going to attach to our uniquely designed stand. Therefore, the parts needed are very unlikely to change. Secondly, I was able to start work on the design report by working on the sections I have been in charge of thus far: the structure. This includes the implementation plan as well as the overall design. This work was minimal as I don’t want to get too far without feedback from the course staff after our presentation.
Looking forward to next week, I hope to get the material I ordered and start the assembly of the gantry. This includes planning out 3D printed parts and fully fleshing out the structure implementation plan which goes along with finishing the design report. This differs a little bit from our original task distribution which had me working more on the software side. However, as the project has progressed and I’ve done most of the work on the structure, I have been leading that portion and Andrew has been working more on the software.