DUST CLENEATOR

What is it?

The Dust Cleneator Project is a simple vaccum system that can have a free movement on the floor to help people to clean some particles and make a better place at home, office or industry. Everybody knows that the dust in the air and some particles on the floor, could affect the respiratory system for man, women, children and our pets, if they are young or old, specially when people have illness like: asthma, rhinitis, bronchitis, etc. This DUST CLEANETOR can work twice a day in a simple floor with a carpet, tile, wood floor.

This machine will be very useful for people with physical disabilities and the cleaner will work independently and make intelligent cleaning operations.

Digital Fabrication Used

* 3D Printer

* Laser cutter

* Molding & Casting

* Embebed programming

* Circuits & Electronics

* Composites, etc.

* The FabAcademy prgramm has make it possible!

PROJECT PRESENTATION

...TURN THE MACHINE ON...

MAKING PROCESS

JUSTIFY

When I started to thinking on a robot vaccum, I also was thinking in people who has some kind of disabilities and how I can help them with digital fabrication with the Bits & Atoms knowledge at the FabLab, so many ideas came to my mind and it was a very hard decision to choose a Final Project, but fortunaletly searching into the fabbers world I decided to make a Dust Cleneator machine. Now i would like to introduce few diseases that I search before to make a decision about this project:

After to have an idea about how to design a robot vaccum, I decided to make some prototypes in SolidWorks software because it is a easy use one.

Bronchitis

Asthma

Rhinitis

DESIGNING

The first step was thinking about how to design the model, so after some investigation I decided to make a first configuration:

First idea design

After to have an idea about how to design a robot vaccum, I decided to make some prototypes in SolidWorks software because it is a easy use one.

Other idea for the case

Differents types of cases were created

LASER CUTTING

In order to improve the model I decided to use the laser cutter to make the top with an engrave with some details.

Model to print

The values provided are for a ZING EPILOG 40 Watt

The model was designed in INKSCAPE

The editable file is provided

The electronics and programming part is very important for this project because in these part you will find the control of robot, so the idea is thet the machine can have free movement with ultrasonic sensors that recognize an obtacle and it can try not to crash the wall or an apartus on the flor, thats why at the begining I used ARDUINO to program de PCB, that PCB was created in EAGLE and in the milling machine ROLAND MDX 540 the traces were made. The soldering process of the components was the second step and after that we test so many times that the machine works!

Once the components are made, the next step is assembling and conecting the parts, for this robot machine I made some pre-assemblings like the motor-wheels parts, the top, the case, so when I was sure that every part works OK I tried to assembling the components together ir order to make a performance of the Dust Clenator Project

After that every component is assembled it is time to try and turn the machine on, so at the begining a little troubles happened but it was jus about the conection or the battery, but nothing that you can not solve easyly, the machine need a few changes so I decided to put some leds in the front to iluminate the road when it start to move, and also it needs a kind of brush so with the composites material I made a cover in the back part of the case as you can see in the picture. The ultrosonics sensors are the best solution because at the frist time I used some limit switch sensors and the machine was crashing to every obstacle befor it can change it direction, but with the ultrasonic it just change 10cm before touch something.

FILES TO DOWNLOAD

Design Model case in 3D

RML File ultrasonic PCB

SVG File top vaccum

EAGLE File

Full documents folder files

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