Study archive - Weeks 9 & 10

Mechanical design

This week task was part of a two-week group project (weeks 9 and 10) to design and build a machine using gestalt framework (gestalt nodes and pygestalt SW). This documentation thus appears on both weeks 9 and 10 on my page. More comprehensive group project documentation is here.

For details in certain steps (stages construction, coding) see documentation by Juha and Antti.

We decided to build a guitar robot who plays guitar. My main contributions were:

  • Soldering the bridge board
  • Documenting the group project work: see here
  • Designing and making the guitar stand
  • Making the presentation slide (with Microsoft Power Point) and demo video (with Movie Maker)
  • The video (22 MB) can be downloaded from my google drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6jtgIKAJ0-AeVlSMXRjdFZhekU

    This video can be optimally viewed with HD. A more compressed version (7 MB) done by Antti is posted on the group page (compressed video).

    Learning resources

    Summary of Tools used

    Software

    Inkscape - for designing the guitar stand

    Microsoft Power Point - for making presentation and video slides

    Movie Maker - for making and compressing the video in .mp4

    Python - for writing code for the machine

    Ubuntu Linux - the gestalt SW package works best in Linux

    Pygestalt - SW package for gestalt nodes in python

    Source files for download

    Guitar stand files

    Contact Details

  • Personal website
  • Email: firstname.lastname@oulu.fi
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