15. Mechanical design.

As remote group we orgnized ourself in a way all of us could help at some points and not miss the knowledge from the work.

Nuria, our instructor ask us to do a review over previos machine designs. So we did. My contribution to the group work was based on studying previous machine designs and getting back the digital files from the group who develope the machine we were going to be using.

We also decide to be working with modules so we could reuse parts and make the effort easier.

15.B.1 Previous machine designs & concept design.

My task was to review machines designs for the year 2017, the 36 to the 72. As our instructor wanted us to search for machines with 2 plus axis it was easy to do a first screen. The next image shows the fablabs studied. The ones in red were the ones which did not accomplish with what Nuria said. For the ones which accomplish the minimum requirements we gave them a nick name and kept them as usefull references.

Finally we wrote down the usefull references. We presented them to the group and discuss about what we felt confortable with, we felt capable to emulate or had some interest on.

Afterall we had an idea to present to our remote instrucutor Nuria.

15.B.2 Digital files & first approach.

During a group meeting with our instructor where we presented the ideas selected as reference, I also presented the files from the machine we were going to be reusing to build our own. It was the one from the Leon group for the year 2016. You can find more info in the following link

My point was to check that the digital files represented the machine build. So we could use them to work with the produced machine years before even it was in a different place and not accesible for us. This help us to prepare the work and the pieces for when we moved to León.

On the left you can see the design from the previous year. On the right you can see our own propossal reusing the pieces.

From this point we were sugested to not use the previous pieces but to use the engines and electronics. So we had to develope a new design for the machine. This will be part of the work of my colleages. But from now they have the real pieces that we were offered.

15.B.3 Video & Slide.

cintya_maq from germancolomar on Vimeo.

Machines that make. Modules design and programming.

Original design files.

.3dm Mechanical & machine design. First approach