12. Mechanical, Machine Design
Group PageTo give some context, I have to say that I don't live in the same city as the rest of my team. Although I was able to travel for some days to help with this assignement, I was limited to my time there for manual work. Anyways, I will describe what I was able to help with during my time there, and the rest was the documentation on our group page.
Our first machine
The first iteration of our machine had the objective of moving a microliter pipette that would absorb some biomaterials to deposite as pixelated drawings in an agar gel base.
To begin, we had to gather and measure all components to try calculating our machine's working area.
Axis cars Vertex with bearings Stoper X axis Stoper Z axisLaser cutting
We also had to design a base for the pipette syringes, samples, agar gel canvas and trash. We planned on producing it on acrilic, but teste with MDF first:
*A very important consideration for designing this base was the working area. The mechanical design and structure had to be definitive to see where the pipette would really be able to move, and therefore, where we could place the things it would interact with.
To make sure the wroking area, sizes and holes were correct, we cut out a test on MDF with the laser cutter:
We also covered everything with a black fabric and set up our camera:
