Week 11/3 - 11/7

It's been a very short week, as I was sick on Monday and we didn't have school on Tuesday because of election day. When I finally came back on Wednesday, I found it we were collaborating with metal fab instead of competing. We are going to keep our design but make it out of metal.

Ben and I got to work scaling up parts. I worked on remaking the counterweight arms. To do this I took a screenshot of the original and then made a spline and then extruded it, scaling it up and changing the dimensions of the hole to fit our bearings.

Ben worked on remaking the main arm. This will be made out of aluminium, while everything else is made out of steel.

The frame was already remade by the time I came in Wednesday, so I worked on putting the wheels back in and then making the joints, which are shown in the video below.

I also worked on researching the bearings with the help of my classmate Tim. There are 3 sizes and 9 total bearings which cost around $150. We need one for a two inch bar, a three-quarters inch bar, and 1 1/2 inch bar.