2022-01-03 - Mechanical Meeting Minutes

2022-01-03 - Mechanical Meeting Minutes

Goals

  • Welcome new members!

  • Review winter break progress

  • Review division of work for next term



New Member Introduction!

Name

Program &Year

On Campus?

Name

Program &Year

On Campus?

Aiysha

Tron 1B

Campus (~2 weeks)

Ash

Tron 3A

Campus

Chris

Tron 2A

Campus (~2 weeks)

Conall

Tron 1B

Campus

Gavin

Tron 1B

Campus

Joshua

Tron 1B

Toronto

Matthew

Tron 2A

Campus

Olivia

Tron 1B

Campus

Ryan C.

Tron 1B

Campus

Ryan M.

Tron 2A

Campus (when things return...)

Simon

Tron 1B

Campus

Zia

Tron 2A

Oshawa (when things return...)



Update & Action Items

Member

Update

Action Items

Member

Update

Action Items

@Andrew Tersigni (Deactivated)

  • Finish chassis drawings and BOM

  • Weight savings to chassis

  • On campus

  • Relocation of gimbal stand

  • Machining!

@Asha Mills Emmett (Deactivated)

  • Wheel connections BOM is done

  • Was working on drawings

  • Added protection to encoders

  • Chassis equipment placement excel sheet

  • Finish up the drawings

    • Contact Demtool about wheel connection bracket** → Ask during field trip?

  • Determine final positions of e-box and battery

    • Chat with Austin offline about COM of arm

  • Machining?

@Emily Adam (Deactivated)

  • Finish differential drawings, BOM

  • Reupdate differential bar geometry with the chassis changes

  • Make mods to bonding test, conduct on Wednesday

  • Wheel hub print test on Bay

  • Small bay clean-up, check what fasteners we have available

  • Machining schedule and division of tasks

  • Coordinate purchasing efforts

  • Demtool field trip

    • Coordinate with Lance & other members

@Max Apitz-Grossman (Deactivated)

  • Almost done suspension drawings

  • Update BOM

  • Finish drawings, finish BOM

@Chanpakorn Chaiklahan

  • Updated drawing template → send feedback to Chan!

  • Open for drawing support

  • Machining!

@Elizabeth Jung (Deactivated)

  • Bonding fixture

  • Share CADs with Emily tonight for review

  • Implementing feedback

@Olabisi Sanusi

  • Battery mount

    • Mounting off of the back of the e-box → prob not...

  • Discuss with Emily

@Austin Tailon Huang (Deactivated)

  • A3/A4 done (99.9%)

  • A2 first drawing drafts done

  • A1 drawing package completed

  • integrate A4 joint sensor

  • complete drawings for A3/A4

  • organize BOMS

  • Order SKF parts

  • Order MISUMI parts

  • concatenate McMaster BOM

  • organize SKF stock

  • coordinate machining for arm (via proxy)

  • Find home for bay printer

@Medina Colabrese (Deactivated)

  • A5/A6 done

  • Drawings first drafts done

  • Get drawings reviewed + make changes

  • Machining!

  • Make BOM

@Jasmine Milan (Deactivated)

  • Camera Science mechanism CAD assembly complete (still need to finish integration with the read head assembly though - elevator bracket needs to be edited) 

  • January 16th! In waterloo. Also available throughout January to help with machining (driving from Toronto)

  •  Integration of assembly in CAD

  • Getting parts? Are we ordering parts right now? Who do I talk to?

  • Possibly machining in January if the shop is open

@Ethan Cronier (Deactivated)

MIA



@Abdul Haseeb (Deactivated)

  • Arm control prototype 

  • Arm control prototype

  • Ask about printer home?

@Steven Gong

 





New Tasks

  • Update E-box with 2022 components → Zia! 

    • People to talk to: Farris (EE Lead) & Austin or Jasmine (2021 E-Box Designers)

  • Update the end effector with its new Maxon motor → Ryan Chan, Olivia Zheng 

    • People to talk to: Ethan (Prototype designer)

  • Drafting support for Science, Arm Axis-3, and Arm Axis-4 parts

    • Ryan Mark!! → finish training, then check out Science (ping Max) and arm (ping Austin)

  • Manufacturing support for all mechanisms!

    • Restrictions in the bay are 5 people at a time

    • Student machine shop hours: 8:30am - 9pm M-F, 10am - 5pm Sat.

    • After this meeting, Emily will coordinate a division of machining work and will let machining members know!

    • People interested

      • Conall

      • Gavin

      • Ryan Chan

      • Elizabeth

      • Jasmine *Driving from Toronto

General Notes

  • Add to machining tracker: one DT motor mount bracket

  • Update material of wheel hubs to onyx filament, add to additive manufacturing list: carbon fibre tube to arm plate