Week 12 — Mechanical Design; Machine Design

Group assignment

Mechanical Design (part 1): Design a machine that includes mechanism + actuation + automation + application

Mechanical Design (part 1): Build the mechanical parts and operate it manually

Mechanical Design (part 1): Document the group project

Machine Design (part 2): Actuate and automate your machine

Machine Design (part 2): Document the group project

Individual assignment

Document your individual contribution

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

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Checklist

• Documented the machine building process to the group page
• Documented your individual contribution to this project on your own website
• Linked to the group page from your individual page as well as from group page to your individual pages
• 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)
• Included your design files (Group page)
• You need to present your machine globally and/or include a 1 min video (1920x1080 HTML5 MP4) + slide (1920x1080 PNG) (Group page)

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Documentation

Start writing here. Add photos, screenshots, design files, code, reflections, and links to group work.

Notes / process

• TODO

Files

• ./files/ (add your CAD files, board files, source code, etc.)

Reflection

• What did I learn this week?
• What was difficult?
• What would I do differently next time?

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