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12. Mechanical Design, Machine Design

The group assignment for this week was split in 2 parts;
Mechanical Design (part 1 of 2)
- Design a machine that includes mechanism + actuation + automation + application
- Build the mechanical parts and operate it manually

Machine Design (part 2 of 2)
- Actuate and automate our machine

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

Have you answered these questions?
- Documented the machine building process to the group page
- Documented your individual contribution to this project on your own website
- Shown how your team planned, allocated tasks and executed the project (Group page)
- Described problems and how the team solved them (Group page)
- Listed possible improvements for this project (Group page)
- You need to present your machine globally and/or include a 1 min video (1920x1080 HTML5 MP4) + slide (1920x1080 PNG) (Group page)
Assessments page

Final work

video & slide here.

Our Concept

Our goal is to xxx
Features we’d like to include are:
- xxx
- xxx

Prior Research xxx

Planning, Scheduling, Task Allocation

Design and Production

Design Requirements we need to figure out are:

Components we need to prepare are

Mechanism Design

Key Decisions, components, Prototype process and results

Machine Design (Actuation & Automation)

Key Decisions, components, Prototype process and results

Final Design and Reflections, Key Learnings

Files, References