The past two weeks (but mostly week before this), I’ve continued on iterating on the vertical aiming system and the radial aiming system. I’ve also worked on writing the design review report that was due last week.
For the radial aiming system, I’ve laser cut a new plate that is compatible with the flange coupler, and attached them all together. There are few more details to flesh out such as finding the right screws (I’ve been using the spare ones in TechSpark so far) and not messing up the actual cutting so it’s round, but the prototype feels stable.
For the vertical aiming system, I’ve made some mistake in CADing it so the house for the servo motor didn’t come out well, but the arm in which the barrel will sit came out nicely. Similar to the radial aiming I still need to find the right screws to attach the arm to the servo motor in a correctly aligned manner.
I am still on schedule according to the Gantt chart.
For next week, I will start connecting the radial aiming systems’ electronics, and write some primitive control module on the Pi. For the vertical aiming, I will re-print the servo house, and finalize the physical structure. I will also slowly start thinking about how to integrate both systems.
P.S. I went to a museum during spring break and found something that could be an alternative vertical aiming system design.
