2021-03-30 Meeting Minutes - General

Asha ME, Emily A, Rehnuma (Science)

• Created new lids for centrifuge

• Made nut pockets for mounting set screws

Mathieu H, Austin, Rehnuma (Arm)

• Wrist issue has more or less been diagnosed (looks like we may be able to get away with light machining fixes to adjust fit)

• Wrist disassembled and fixes are in progress

• 3d print for wrist cam and tooling bit will be adjusted soon (sry)

Jasmine M, Austin, Ethan (e-box)

• Made all last minute updates, please review drafting channel post

• New BOM 

• More connectors ordered

Open

• Design review soon then we can send it

• Need to update interior layout and some printed components, but wont affect the ebox frame for fab whatsoever

Haseeb (LED board mount, Encoder mounts design for drivetrain)

• Need to print

• Finished CAD, need to print

Emily, Medina, Elizabeth (New Gearboxes)

• Prepping lightning talk

Ethan (CAD cleanup)

• Clean up done (still some rebuild errors that are difficult to fix)

• Do not mate to a patterned component

• Watch out for circular references

• Documentation on new standards

• New standards will be in Google drive > Mechanical > CAD protocols (for now)

• To do:

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  • new naming scheme

  • Setup file properties

  • Build tests (via solidworks macros)

  • New file templates

  • Update/expand/improve Fastener library - heat set inserts? Shoulder bolts? Appearances? Missing Sizes?

  • Setup config standard (old configs always get messed up)

  • verified/reviewed metadata tag?

  • Improve training

  • Document everything… (move to confluence)

Asha

• Ansys? -> Tony sent me the contact info of our connection - Mathieu

Austin

• Sponsorship packages for demtool wyrks and agile will be sent this week

Task

Name

Force-sensing claws

Shreshth Mehra

Drivetrain revamp

Max Apitz-Grossman

Emily Adam

Andrew Tersigni

Andrew Zhang

Fixing 2021 CAD

Ethan Cronier

Harmonic drive

Emily Adam

Medina Colabrese

Elizabeth Jung

Battery

Ethan, Rehnuma

Custom wheel research

Max

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17vSvjMwP4Q2ede3X4Nca8yVGhYfp8aLu?usp=sharing 

Task

Name

Arm Elbow Backlash

Jasmine and Ethan

Arm Wrist Gear Meshing

Mathieu, Austin / Rehnuma

New PCB mounts for arm

Andrew (refer to Aidan or Wolfgang on electrical)

Encoder mounts design for drivetrain

Abdul