Assignment(Mechanical Design)

  • Group Assignment: Design a machine that includes mechanism + actuation + automation + application
  • Build the mechanical parts and operate it manually
  • Document the group project
  • Individual Assignment: Document your individual contribution

    • Assignment(Machine Design)

  • Group Assignment: Actuate and automate your machine
  • Document the group project
  • Individual Assignment: Document your individual contribution

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    Learning outcomes

  • Work and communicate effectively as a team
  • Design, plan and build a machine
  • Analyse and solve technical problems
  • Recognise opportunities for improvements in the design

    • Group Assignment

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  • Design a machine that includes mechanism + actuation + automation + application
  • Build the mechanical parts and operate it manually
  • Actuate and automate your machine

    • Firstly we distributed our work amongst ourselves in which my role is to integrate the mechanical, electronic, and control system components. This includes final assembly, testing of the complete system, and ensuring that everything works together seamlessly. And to find similiar projects like our 3D scanner to get more ideas to further improve our initial designs.

    We found many projects that were similiar to ours using the Fab Academy search bar using keywords relating to our project. The most similiar and informative was Quentin's final project

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    We also had to test the outcomes of different ways of scanning our object since we are planning on using a mobile phone and Poly cam software for 3D scanning.

    We tried different ways of scanning it

    This is Yangtshel, holding the scanner still, while I move the object. Thank you Yangtsehl for holding the camera very still!
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  • Moving the scanner fast in a fixed position and keeping the object still.
  • Keeping the object still and moving the scanner around the object in different positions.
  • Moving the object in a moderate speed and keeping the scanner still in a fixed position.
    • We concluded that the 2nd test(Keeping the object still and moving the scanner around the object in different positions) has the best outcome.

    Change of plans

    We will be spinning the platform the object will be placed and the scanner will stay stiil in one place but, moving only vertically. We placed an object in the prototype of the platform and scanned the object.

    The scanner was placed 10cm away from the platform and moved to an angle of approximately 50 degrees and 72 degree

    The result is as follows:
    For our gear design we used the Involute Spur Gear Builder v2.0 We chose this gear design
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    I designed the cases for the stepper motorThis design is for the stepper motor for the pulley

    This design is for the stepper motor for the base.

    Assembling the parts
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