2022-11-21 Mechanical Meeting Minutes

Battery Mount Design

• Battery Mount Design

• Met yesterday for syncing up how battery, ebox and gimbal will be mounted

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• Changes to battery mount soon

• Next week cad spin next tuesday after mech meeting

Rover Comms Tower / Gimbal Mount

• Gimbal Mount Investigation

• An initial design for the comms stand has been finished

• CAD spin review after this meeting

• CAD fully finished by this weekend

EBox Redesign

• Met on weekend/ PDR reviewed

• PDR - EBox Redesign 2022/23

• Completed rough layout of ebox components

• Send layout picture to ebox channel; address layout accordingly

List of Ebox Contents 2023

• Aim to finalize layout for next meeting

A1 Base Plate

• https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/l/cp/pUAgazoa

  • Pushed to GrabCAD

  • Holes too large on the base plate, may need to redesign

• Remachine base plate, show a new member

A4 Sensor Mount

• Design proximity limit switch sensor mount (A4)

  • No updates

• Design mount this week

Arm Design Research

• N/A

• Meet with @Austin Tailon Huang

A5/A6 - Shaft Redesign

• https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/l/cp/ETiVKLtw

  • Finished drawing

• Machining key seats this week

• refit encoders starting next week

Design Allen Key Tool Module

• Good for new members

Joint Testing Plans

• No updates

@Chanpakorn Chaiklahan

Arm Camera Mount

• Select a suitable camera to be mounted on the wrist

• Requires communication with SW, simpler mechanical design task

david is working on this

Science Assembly

• Assemble drill module to air manifold system routing

• No major updates

• Do dirt collection testing by next week

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3D Sensor Head Mount

• Design and assemble 3d printed sensor head mount

• finalized cad, preparing for CDR

• CDR next week; to be scheduled

Design Mount for Science PCB

• Good for new members, learn about PCB packaging

• Easier design task

• Noone actively working on this task

Erin Devlin

Mechanical Engineering 2A

Dahui Kang

Mechatronics Engineering 1A

Toni Zeng

Mechatronics Engineering 1A

Lucas D’Elia

Mechatronics Engineering 2B

David Choi

Mechanical Engineering 2A

Megan Chang

Mechatronics Engineering 2B

Santiago Zea

Mechanical Engineering 2A

Yuming He

Mechatronics Engineering 1A

Henrique Rodrigues

Mechatronics Engineering 1A

Aathithan Karunakaran

Mechatronics Engineering 1A

Shivraj Singh Vishnoi

Mechatronics Engineering 2B

Shabd Gupta

Mechatronics Engineering 1A