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Journal 2.2 Analyze and Choose Design
Dizzy’s Journal Entry (Choosing an Embodiment for Function #2) Handout: Coach was right, after a more sincere search for ideas, we wound up with 18 different ideas for Function #2 (collect sticks). We...
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Journal 2.3 Analyze and Choose Design-2
Dizzy’s Journal Entry (Choosing an Embodiment for Function #2 con’t) We demonstrated the prototypes for 14 and 18. Everyone agreed that 18 is WAAAYY cool! But, has its problems. Worksheet: * we had to...
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Journal 3.0 Combine Functions and Analyze in Embodiment
Dizzy’s Journal Entry (A Broken Arm Wins!!!) While Eve and I have been working on the embodiment for Function #2 (collect sticks), the “arm team” has been making CRAZY discoveries. I’m so glad they did...
View ArticleJournal 3.1 Self-Help Embodiment Design
Dizzy’s Journal Entry (The “self-help” principle in mechanical design) We had a visit from a mechanical engineering mentor today and told him about Vex’s idea for Function #4 (reorient sticks for AON...
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Journal 3.2 System Integration and Refining Embodiments
Dizzy’s Journal Entry (Changes inspired during System Integration) We still haven’t built anything…we haven’t even prototyped very many ideas and yet our design is evolving every day! Following a...
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Journal 4.0 Types of Drawings that Engineers Use
Dizzy’s Journal Entry (Napkins to CAD) [Two full weeks until Practice Day event] The build team started work on the few parts that the whole team agreed are Very unlikely to change. The rest of us are...
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Journal 4.1 Make Detail Design Decisions BEFORE Building
Dizzy’s Journal Entry (Caught a mistake BEFORE prototyping) History: -the game is Gatekeeper -Our team strategy focuses on collecting sticks and inserting them into collection bins. The sticks begin in...
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Journal 4.2 Shaft Couplers Required in most Robots
Dizzy’s Journal Enter – What Every Robot Needs The build team has the base cut out, the “wheels”/gears finished, and the motors mounted on the base…but we forgot to design a way to attach the wheels to...
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Dizzy’s Journal Entry (Build Crew Chugging Along…derailed, and back on track) [The Saturday before Practice Day event] Good thing I got the shaft coupler design finished. The build crew made them in...
View ArticleJournal 5.3 Polishing the Gripper
Dizzy’s Journal Entry (Gripper Works, but Could be Better) I was able to mount the servo to the gripper in no time flat. The new laminated wheels/gears look great! After only a few minutes of testing,...
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