Week 2 and 3

Sorry ME250 bloggers for our late update of week 2. Last week primarily consisted of assembling our DC planetary gearbox motor for the homework #4 assignment. During the weekend we assembled and discussed ideas for our final arm design that will swing in the slot and drop a wedge into the lever to block our opponents from moving their lever. We are currently finishing up our CAD designs for the arm and pictures will be uploaded at the end of the week for our next blog.

This week we have been machining our components for our larger car that is featured in the previous post. Our components that we have been machining are the aluminum base plate, bushing mounts and the wheel shafts. For the bushing mounts we cut the aluminum 90 degree angle stock into separate pieces that are approximately 1.25" by 1.25" and then used the mill to make the dimensions more precise. We used the water jet to cut our aluminum base plates with designated holes. We are now finishing the shafts and using the laser cutter to cut our acrylic arms. The car will be assembled for our design review on this upcoming Wednesday.

We will have pictures and more to come soon.