Category: Miles’ Status Reports

In the week of 10/4-10/11, we were mostly working on the Design Report as a team. Personally, I mostly worked on the system implementation section, as well as some of the smaller ending sections like the scheduling and summary. This took the majority of the week, as we tried to be as detailed and thorough as possible in our report.

Our main goal last week was to complete all the deliverables needed for the report, which we did complete. Our goal for this upcoming week will be to get all of our parts ordered now that we have our BOM and start our 3d print so we can begin assembling and testing our project as soon as possible.

At the start of this week the team spent a lot of time collaborating on the design presentation. Towards the middle of this week we also began working on the design report. I have mostly been working on the architecture and system implementation sections.

In addition to the report, I have been continuing to research the other motors, as well as prepping the cad model to be printed. I was hoping to get it printed this week, but there were some tweaks I wanted to make to the model, and I’d rather only print it once than have to reprint it multiple times and waste money, especially when we are still working out our final bill of materials. Our main deliverable for next week will be the design report, which will also have out completed bill of materials and our finalized cad model.

This past week, I have mostly focused on researching materials and working on our CAD model of the launcher. I have been spending a lot of time researching the DC motors we’re going to use to launch, since that is the crux of our project. I’ve been trying to find a balance between getting something powerful enough, but also at a reasonable price and footprint. We also have been working together on the design presentation.

I believe we are still on schedule, and I finished the CAD model like I had planned last week. For next week, I’d like to at least get the motors ordered and have a few pieces 3d printed.

At the start of this week we mainly focused on the presentation. While Andrew was the one presenting, we all worked on the slides and plan for the presentation. We all contributed to different parts of the slides while also working together and discussing them. The main thing I contributed to the presentation was the Gannt Chart and Task List/Schedule I created. Later on this week, I researched more parts we could potentially use for our project.
Tentative Links:
2.5 in. CIM Motor
https://www.omc-stepperonline.com/3pcs-e-series-nema-17-bipolar-1-8deg-17ncm-24-07oz-in-1a-42x42x23mm-4-wires-3-17he08-1004s
design inspiration for base:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5213801

I have also started a CAD model in fusion for the housing of the launcher(more in team report)

I believe we are on schedule for now. The main deliverable for next week I want to complete is at least a rough draft of the CAD model, and a more complete list of materials.