2020-06-06 Meeting Minutes - Science

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