Final Project: Rubber Wheels!

LeRon and Professor Bryan helped immensely with this process.

First I printed out thin wheels for the rubber to attach to and stuck them around some old bearings.

Next we hung them on some supports made out of wire.

 Then, dipped them into liquid rubber and set them up to dry. They looked very good (almost good enough to eat! They probably wouldn't have been very tasty though).

After they dried we all spent quite some time cutting them out and pressing them on to the bearings I salvaged from the rollerblades.

Final Project: Bearings

Since each caster wheel requires 3 bearings when bearings are of low supply, I took some roller-skates (provided by Professor Bryan. Christmas came early this year!!) and took the bearings in them! It was pretty fun taking them apart not gonna lie.

The picture is of the skates, wheels, and bearings down at the bottom.

Final Project: Mk2

My original design wasn't quite big enough for all of the mechanical parts to fit. With the help of LeRon Bridges (http://lbridges2017.blogspot.com/), I scaled up my design. I added parts for the bearings to fit into in place of axles.

Digital Vehicle: Final!

I designed the wheels and put them on the car (using rollerblade bearings). Once again, Vicente did a fantastic job modeling the chassis. I am happy with how it all turned out!

Final Project: Proposal

My idea, inspired by the Group Project, is to make a car with omni directional wheels. The pictures are not the best quality since they are just "screenshots" taken with my phone, but the main idea is there. I need to add more details in the final car, but the chassis is pretty much done. The one problem I was having was getting my car to not look so... well... so suggestive. Which, for this project at least, isn't the goal. I removed the wheel casings and that helped a lot.

First 3D Print!

Brook Simonson (http://bascad.blogspot.com) and I made a little mushroom in Inventor to practice printing on. The whizzing and booping of the 3D printer was mesmerizing to watch to say the least. The bad thing about printing (if you're impatient like me) is that, it not only takes over an hour for something to print, but it isn't always reliable as one would expect. Also, to avoid screw ups in the printing process you should try to avoid too steep of curves.

Attempt 1.

 Attempt 2.

 Attempt 5. Finally, it worked!

Group Car Project: Everything But the Wheels

Vicente Campos (http://coolvincedesigns.blogspot.com/) did an amazing job making the chassis for our car! All that is left to do is make the wheels, print them out, and then assemble.