Teddy’s Status Report for 2/8
Most of the week was spend finding parts to purchase for the xy part of the robot gantry. Tried to keep costs low while not sacrificing too much in quality where it counts (e.g., spent more on the rods for guiding the movement of the end effector in the xy plane, since they needed to hold up to tighter tolerances). Also had to do some small design changes to the 4xidraw design since our gantry will be significantly larger. Additionally did some research on an adequate vacuum end-effector and possible ways that the gantry could have motion in the z-axis.
Link to the BOM for the xy part of the gantry is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N34-p-gZ5hg3E984jC0rKGtYfBRqveXMVGyWjgI6nZA/edit?usp=sharing
Plan for next week is to start designing the z-axis movement and the end effector, as well as to start 3D printing parts.
Currently everything is on schedule.