2022-01-03 - Mechanical Meeting Minutes

Goals

  • Welcome new members!
  • Review winter break progress
  • Review division of work for next term


New Member Introduction!

NameProgram &YearOn Campus?
AiyshaTron 1BCampus (~2 weeks)
AshTron 3ACampus
ChrisTron 2ACampus (~2 weeks)
ConallTron 1BCampus
GavinTron 1BCampus
JoshuaTron 1BToronto
MatthewTron 2ACampus
OliviaTron 1BCampus
Ryan C.Tron 1BCampus
Ryan M.Tron 2ACampus (when things return...)
SimonTron 1BCampus
ZiaTron 2AOshawa (when things return...)


Update & Action Items

MemberUpdateAction Items
Andrew Tersigni (Deactivated)
  • Finish chassis drawings and BOM
  • Weight savings to chassis
  • On campus
  • Relocation of gimbal stand
  • Machining!
Asha Mills Emmett
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • A5/A6 done
  • Drawings first drafts done
  • Get drawings reviewed + make changes
  • Machining!
  • Make BOM
Jasmine Milan
  • 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 CronierMIA
Abdul Haseeb
  • 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