15. Mechanical design & 17. Machine Design

For this week’s assignment, we decided to build a 2-axis marble maze puzzle.

Input : The objective is to control Marble Maze with hand movement and/or a joystick. Thus the input would be accelerometer mounted on hand for the first control method. and joystick in the second.

Output : The two servo motors will be the output whose rotation would be limited to 20 degrees in each direction.

Inspiration

After spending weeks on deciding what to make ranging from an automated flamethrower to a vending machine, we finally decided on making a marble maze. This was our inspiration for the project.

The [amazing] Maze made by Katie Levine and our regional instructor Ohad Meyuhas.

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The maze

Since this was a group week, we have uploaded the entire prosess on the Group Page.

Here is my contribution in this project.

Assembly

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molding molding

The Final Prototype

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The Final Maze

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Video

The remainder of the process is documented on the Group Page.

Downloadable files

You can download all the files here