Saturday, December 19, 2015

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.

Monday, December 14, 2015

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.

Saturday, December 12, 2015

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.

Thursday, December 10, 2015

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!