Week 12

Mechanical design, machine designs

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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Assignment requirements

Group assignment

  • Actuate and automate your machine
  • Document the group project

Individual assignment

  • Document your individual contribution

Progress status

Group work Done

Design, build and document the group project

Individual work Done

Document individual contribution

Documentation Done

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1) Introduction

Machine building

  • Define the machine, ideas: produce biomaterials, simbiocreation, focus on Peruvian jungle, generate impact
  • Ideas: infinitive
  • Proposals: infitive
  • Opinions: infinitive
  • Problems & solution: observation and visit different Fab Labs in Peru
  • Define a prototype: streght and affordable solution, considering out time, resources, knowlegde and requirements
  • Develop the group protype and test it
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Brainstorming at Fab Lab UP
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Brainstorming at Fab Lab UNI
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Brainstorming at Fab Lab UTEC
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Real inspiration
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Real inspiration - Pizza 🍕🍕🍕

2) Group assignment - Mechanical design, machine designs

For more details visit Fab Lab Peru Week 12 Group assignment


Problems

- Define the project

- Design the machine considering: mechanism, automatization and application

- Design the machine considering Fab Lab content: CAD, Cutting, Electronic, Network, Communication

- Align group skills

- Different approaches and visions


Solutions

- Advance step by step

- Define our strenghts and weakness

- Zen mode 😂😂😂

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Ideas
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Limited resources
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Reuse components, devices, others
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A functional machine, with color and style
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Regarding previous projects - 2024
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Regarding previous projects - 2025

4) Contributions

We focus on permanent communication, collaboration and contribution

- We have permnanent contribution

- We balance our skills, experiences and capacities in this project


It is difficult to define an individual contribution

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Define the product & learn about biomaterial production
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Learn about biomaterial production
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Design focus one critical process
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Define the crusher as a critical process
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Sketch the design - fiber entrance
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Sketch the design - fiber crusher
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Sketch the design - material reception
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Other designs - review other projects
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Other designs at the inspritation coworking
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Tripack at the inspritation coworking
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Reviewing paper crusher
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Reviewing paper crusher panel
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Paper crusher interior
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Our resources PLA
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Reviewing banana fiber
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Recycling components
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Recycling components
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Contribution on design - old Maker Bot structure
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Modular design
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3D Printing at Fab Lab UNI
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3D Printing at Fab Lab UNI
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3D Printing at Fab Lab UNI
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Fab Lab UP
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We need gasoline - Bembos, Peruvian Burgers Grill
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Setup 3D printing with PLA
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Priting structure - part 3. 2 hours 13 minutes
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Setup four 3D Printers - Bambu A1
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Priting structure - part 3. 2 hours 40 minutes
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Priting structure - part 4
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Priting structure - part 5
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Maybe at 11:00 PM
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All the group controlling the process
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Material reception door. Printing & programming
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Material reception door. Printing & programming
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Part 5 details
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Crusher structure
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We finished very early - 1:15 AM
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We went to sleep early - 1:30 AM
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Connections diagram
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Nextion screen configuration
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Nextion screen configuration with Arduino IDE
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Nextion screen configuration
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Nextion screen configuration
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Screen printed frame
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Servo testing
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Servo configuration with Arduino IDE
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Servo configuration
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Saturday early - 3D Print
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Part 6. Only 2 hours
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Part 7
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Part 7. I can't belive 6 hours 11 minutes
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Solving problems. No enough PLA, PLA block, printing mistakes
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On going
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After 8 hours, a lot of mistakes
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After 8 hours, a lot of mistakes
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After 8 hours, a lot of mistakes
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Final results
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Parts ready
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Parts ready
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Parts assemble
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Parts assemble & internal configuration
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Coca leaf & crushed
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Modular design demo
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Bio - Crusher - Society presentation
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Bio - Crusher - Society presentation
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Bio - Crusher - One slide shot
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Bio - Crusher - Working group at 12:30 AM
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Bio - Crusher - Working group at 12:31 AM
Video demonstration

5) Final slide

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Final slide Bio-Crusher

6) One minute video

7) References files

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