Welcome To Zuberi's Mechanical design/Machine design Page

This week we wanted to work as a group to make a ping pong machine. We decided that this machine would be able to launch ping pong balls using parts and elecronics that we built and designed in the lab as much as possible. I took responsibility for making what was called the ball feeder. This is a part of the machine that would take the ping pong ball from a container and move in to the exact launching point between the wheels of the machine. This meant that I had to be able to only move the individual ball and not have it fall out or move of path or else it wouldn't launch properly or at all.

Here is a pic of my feeder attached to the machine.

Other parts are the pan and tilt platform and a slider rail and the launching platform. This improves the capability of the launcher by enabling it to change the horizontal angle (left to right) and height of the ball to hit a certain position on the table. The slider rail holds the pan and tilt head and also serves as a base for the entire machine. It moves side to side along the table to launch balls from different positions; i.e. far left/right or center.

The design files for my part (the yellow part) are available below.