Final Video

Andy Kreiss

Desk toy final product

Keziah Hoyt
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Today we added the switch to the arduino pretty quickly, finishing up that part of the project. What tripped us up was the construction of the actual desk toy using rhino and laser cutting. We had used box maker and put our box onto rhino and put in our own holes and such in where they were necessary. In doing this, we decided instead of adding the same hole to two of the sides we should just copy that side and use it on the other side. Also in some point we changed the units and our box had not translated and scaled as we thought it would. So, after laser printing the box we found not only was it bigger than we had planned, but we also found that the sides were not exactly the same as we had thought and so the side we copied didn't have the right notches for the side we needed it on. Here we had a choice to just remake that one side and work with what we had already made, or make a completely new box not on box maker. We decided to make a new, simpler box because we had deleted the side that we needed for the old box and it would be easier than trying to attain it. We made sure our new box was much smaller and gave the panels of it only one notch on each side. We did this because our old box had a ton of notches and that ended up messing us up and one per side was easy to recreate on every panel. Once we thought we were finished we made the box 3D and put it together in rhino. This is when we found that we had made the sides too long, but luckily we caught it before cutting. Then, we cut our box and assembled it as much as we could before we ran out of time. We didn't end up getting the arms on but the servo worked we got the LEDs in the light holes and the sensor in the nose hole, so we got pretty close to completing it! For the over all studio maybe we could make a more useful robot that uses a sensor to help with a daily task.