Components Chassis Electronics Informatics Transport, safety, and charging Box Project Management Optional features
Project description

Puzzling Robots - Transport And Safety Box

Transport And Safety Box

Current status: still working on the submodules!

Submodules

Charging slider

In order to comfortably connect each robot to its charging base in the box, I decided to make a slider that mechanically guides the robot into the right position:

Current status: V4 in progress
V3 charging slider. Made with FreeCAD

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Power distribution system

Current status: V1

V1 Power distribution system. The small rectangles will be 6 PCBs while the USB connector is going to be separate

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Box

Current status: V2

Lasercut file for V2 of the box

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Materials:

Box connector pieces

To connect the sides of the box together.

Current status: V1

V1 screw connector piece
Storytime

Top to bottom. Oldest to newest.

  1. This was the first modular design. I did not know the size of the robots so I used placeholder values:
    Video of automatic changes when number or robots is changed
  2. Designed the power distribution system V1, the chassis, and picked the materials. See pictures below for more details:
    V1 of charging circuit for inside the box
    Lasercut file for V2 of the box
  3. Based on the bottom plate of the Chassis design bottom plate, this is the first slider:
    V1 charging slider. Made in FreeCAD

    Test results:

    • The slider pins are a bit too far out
    • There is no way to attach the pin headers and terminals to it.
    • The charging slider and the bottom plate are a tight fit

  4. V2 of the charging slider features:

    Updates:

    • Added foam spacers
    • Added cable holders
    • Added screws to attach pcb
    V2 charging slider. Made in FreeCAD

    Download files

  5. V3:
    V3 charging slider. Made with FreeCAD

    Updates:

    • Made separate foam spacers to screw in
    • Made separate cable holders to screw in

    Test results:

    The screw in spacers and holders do not fit

    Download files: