Egg Dissolve
The mechanisms class was charged with creating egg-cracking Rube Goldberg machines for the first week's assignment. Rather than breaking the egg shell through brute force, we tossed around the idea of...
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Blender != CAD
Assignment: Spend a handful of hours evaluating your assigned 3D modeling software (Blender)Blender doesn’t seem like a reasonable substitute for Alibre or Solidworks… I’m not even sure CAD suites are...
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Free Body Diagram
I sketched a free-body diagram of a hot glue gun’s stick-advance mechanism in an attempt to formalize its action. (I was also surprised to see hot glue used to secure wires inside the hot glue gun… a...
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ProposalA trio of small, wheeled robots each beholden to a particular geo-tagged social web service, tethered together with elastic string, each attempting to pull the other towards the physical...
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Geo Graph Bot Platform
I’ve created a quick hardware sketch of the Geo Graph Bot:Current RevisionThe bot receives commands over the air to steer, turn, etc. The wheels are too small, and the 9V battery is too weak for the...
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Geo Bot Postmortem
My work on the graph bot ended up veering a bit from my initial plans — rather than constrain several automatons via lengths of string, I worked instead towards a group of drawing machines that would...
View ArticleEgg Dissolve
The mechanisms class was charged with creating egg-cracking Rube Goldberg machines for the first week's assignment. Rather than breaking the egg shell through brute force, we tossed around the idea of...
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Blender != CAD
Assignment: Spend a handful of hours evaluating your assigned 3D modeling software (Blender)Blender doesn’t seem like a reasonable substitute for Alibre or Solidworks… I’m not even sure CAD suites are...
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Free Body Diagram
I sketched a free-body diagram of a hot glue gun’s stick-advance mechanism in an attempt to formalize its action. (I was also surprised to see hot glue used to secure wires inside the hot glue gun… a...
View ArticleGeo Graph Bots
ProposalA trio of small, wheeled robots each beholden to a particular geo-tagged social web service, tethered together with elastic string, each attempting to pull the other towards the physical...
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Geo Graph Bot Platform
I’ve created a quick hardware sketch of the Geo Graph Bot:Current RevisionThe bot receives commands over the air to steer, turn, etc. The wheels are too small, and the 9V battery is too weak for the...
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Geo Bot Postmortem
My work on the graph bot ended up veering a bit from my initial plans — rather than constrain several automatons via lengths of string, I worked instead towards a group of drawing machines that would...
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