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2020-06-06 Meeting Minutes - Science

2020-06-06 Meeting Minutes - Science

Aug 17, 2021

Attendance:

Asha Mills Emmett (2A tron)

Wolfgang Windholtz (2A ECE)

David Choi (2A mech)

Emily Adam (1A tron)

Alaina Hansen (2A tron)

Asha

 - working on design for lid of mixer

  • Reduced length of shovel shaft

  • Design has foldable lid

  • Still two servos

  • Flap servo will be bolted 

Emily

  • Worked on flap for pizza seal

  • Made funnel toppers for test tubes

David 

  • Busy with life and BS

  • Changed the shovel slightly

  • shovel may need to be longer because old shovel is long

Alaina

  • Worked on the top

  • The box tube may not be able to attach

  • something may need to be added

  • Chain is not attaching to the box tube

  • transitioned into a more in depth discussion about how the box tube integrates with the shovel

  • designed shovel to fit inside box tube

  • height is 3.4 inches

  • made changes to make installing motor easier

  • discussed putting memes in

  • consider testing drilling holes in belt then bolting box tube onto belt

  • for continuous belts put belt in mold to help line up

  • add switch cheese to make mechanism lighter

  • talked about cameras

  • liked to try to modify bottom metal plate and put the camera 

 

Talked about pcb placement

  • considered mounting the pcb on the bottom of the science plate and having a weird shape

  • question if the pcb needed a cover

  • covered the motor driver last year

  • emily is goning to determine motor placement

Caleb

  • working on motors 

  • other people should fill in more info 

  • why dont er mount where boxes are

Action items

Asha remove redundant things from cad

Emily - PCB integration

Aliana - belt tensioner

David - shovel cad

Caleb - motor selection

Wolfgang - camera selection, update schematics, update software