15. Mechanical design¶
Group work is described on the group work page for Team 2.
Individual part of the group work¶
My task was to design the machine structure that will be cut with laser cutter.
First we sketched together what kind of parts are needed and how they will be connected together.
I decided to use Inkscape Tabbed Box Maker for the machine basic structure. But one box is not enough, so I needed to think carefully what kind of boxes and extra walls are needed. For that I drew a picture on the paper to understand how the parts will be connected and which parts need tabs and which not.
I also made a paper model.
After that it was easy to create needed parts with Tabbed Box Maker. I created four separate boxes, but of three of those I used only one part. Doing the work like this I got matching tabs with different kinds of wall sizes.
Here are the parts of the big box
Here is the additional part for top box
Here is the divider inside of the big box
Here is the front wall
The cutting and assembling are described in the group work page.
After putting box parts together and having also motors and dispencer in place we noticed that some modifications are needed for the box design. The final design files are in the group work page.
