Throughout this week, I finished manufacturing and assembling the the ramp sorter for the team to begin full-system sorting. The ramp was designed with laser-cut scrap MDF found in techspark. It was primarily fastened by gluing it together with additional support pieces for more surface area.
Below is an image of the ramp’s assembly from the laser-cut frame.
Below shows an isometric view of the ramp nearly assembled.
Finally, below shows the angled ramps I placed to allow for more consistent object manipulation, ensuring the object travels down the center of the ramp and in the direction the ramp is facing.
Moving forward, I will continue to serve as mechanical support to the team during testing and into our final demo day.
Additional Question:
I learned about more modern forms of 3D printing. This primarily happened as I went to Roboclub to 3D print many of our components. There were more modern methods of printing supports than I was used to. I also learned more about the process of ML engineering. Although I didn’t directly work on the ML/CV aspects, I did occasionally help in the planning and literature review/researching for our next steps. With him, I learned how to look for these more advanced ML models and datasets to make our applications more effective.