Mechanical & Machine Design

Table of Content

Group Work Responsibilities: Flowchard for Electronics & Programming
Designing the Boards
Final Code for the Machine Design Groupwork

Assignment

Design a machine that includes mechanism+actuation+automation.
Build the mechanical parts and operate it manually.
Document the group project and your individual contribution.

What I made this Week

Groupwork Responsibilities:

With our Fab Lab group being mostly design students, I was given the responsibility to make the Electronics for our Group Projects. Since we were a group of five students, we decided to make two marble mazes instead of one, each working on different mechanisms. After several hours of discussion, I figured the basic electronics block diagram for our circuitry.

Group 1:

Group 2:

Both Group Had different Mechanisms to move the Maze, but they both will be using the same two servos.
Group 1 will be using an Accelerometer in a glove to control the maze while Group 2 will use a joystick module to control it.
For aesthetics, we will be using 12v LED strips.

Groupwork: Designing the boards

Since I am a lazy person, I decided to make a single pair of boards which would work for both the groups. I made the schematics for the controller and the control board while considering that the control board will be the same for both the groups while the controller would have pinouts for both tht accelerometer and the joystick module and these are what I came up with.

More on these boards can be found in my Networking Week Documentation.