Over the past week, I smoothened out some of the mechanical aspects of the project. I lengthened the tensioner to apply more tension to the belt to accomodate any potentially higher speeds or loads the team may want to try. The team was also experiencing issues with our belt drift over to one direction. I solved this by placing tape and slightly increasing the diameter of the roller opposite the side the belt was drifting towards. This allows the belt to have more traction on that side and fight the tendancy to drift over in one direction. This will contribute to much greater ease while the group tests towards integration and validation of our overall system. Moving forward, I will freeze any major mechanical changes and simply serve as support to my group mates in their primary tasks.
Carnegie Mellon ECE Capstone, Spring 2025 – Erin Anand, John Liu, Mohammed Alfaraj