For this week, I have been working on the design slides and document. I have been working on the CAD design for the compartments of the dispensing device so we can 3D print. I made the individual designs for the pill storage and the rotating disc meant to dispense the pill based on dimension calculations that take into account average pill sizes, prevent jamming of pills, and creating an easy path for the pill from the compartments to the load cell. Then I made a 3D model of how all the components will be arranged within housing. Next week, we will be able to start 3D printing the components and I will continue to work on the physical device and the software elements that track the pills. Below is a link to all the CAD models mentioned above.
Aneesha’s Status Report for 2/8/25
This past week I have been working on the hardware design for the dispenser. I have been working with MM to get together the components that we need to order. I realized that buying the pill compartments and cutting them to fit would not be ideal for our device so I have started on a CAD design using CadQuery and TinkerCAD to design our pill compartments based on our user requirements and will continue to work on it and the hardware schematic throughout the week as well as our design document. I created a prototype and added the STL file to our GitHub repo and below is what the model will potentially look like.
