This week I spent the majority of my time working on building the exterior shell for our project. I ordered and picked up wood from Home Depot and had the wood cut to the specific sizes needed to build the exterior. I spent a few days this week in the Techspark wood shop putting together the pieces of our exterior. I also used the laser cutter to cut out smaller pieces of wood needed for the box. I adjusted some of the designs for the mechanism as well because Jessica and I found out that we will need a little more room within the box to be able to properly house our mechanism. I also used Jessica’s Solidworks models of 2 mechanism components and had those 3D printed to be able to fit our bigger gear. Putting together the box has been a bit more challenging than expected because I want to be sure that we are able to put our sensor platform in the box and wire everything without too much difficulty.
I am mostly on track as long as I am able to finish putting the entire exterior together this week and integrate the sensor platform into the shell.
In the next week, I will be finishing up the exterior and making adjustments as needed so that our box can properly fit our mechanism as intended. I will be working with Jessica and Lauren to integrate the entire system as well.