This week was mainly spent on fully trying to get all of the new wheels printed and assembled. To start the week, I wanted to quickly work on cutting out new rear legs for the suspension. The main reason for doing this was on the previous cut, I had forgotten to include holes for the differential to attach to. This left the top body of the rover unstable, so I quickly completed the new cut. After this, I next moved to redesigning the wheel, I had to make a few adjustments to

This week, I fully finished my updated design for my new motor mounts. At the start of the week, after confirming the sizing for my motor mounts, I decided to print out all of the remaining motor mounts for the other motors on the rover. Once I had finished printing them, I took them out, and ensured that they had all been printed correctly without any issues. Once that was complete, I needed to pry out all of the 3d printed scaffolding inside of the casing, this ended up tak

This week I started by first designing my a new model for my motor mount. Initially, I was not a huge fan of the design, the motors did not have the strongest torque and I wanted a higher RPM. Instead I decided to settle with a slightly higher powered motor however, this required me to design a brand new motor mount to house the updated design. Once figuring this out, I took the dimensions of the motor and then came up with my first design however this design was far from ide

This week I finally finished mounting all of the final stability modifications onto the rover. On Monday, I was finally finished printing all of the parts. Once this step was done then I next went over to the machine shop. While I was there I press fit the bearings into the brand new bracket mounts using the vice grip as the tolerance was very low however now they fit tightly in their holes. After this I then tapped my new join piece which did not take long. Once this was com

Updated joint This week I made a lot of progress on fixing many of the stability errors in my design for the rover. The first major design change that I thought of was making a critical adjustment regarding the first joint of the rover. In my new design, I connected the second bearing to the first joint in a single part, this would ensure that the second bearing would be secured far more stably inside the filament instead of the acrylic. After I finished this I then printed,

This week, I made a lot more progress on my design and was able to do a lot more testing of my rover and was able to conclude many takeaways from the project thus far. However, before I got to this point, I first decided to try creating treads to add on the wheels instead of ordering from amazon using a new material Mr. L had bought for 3d printing. All 6 of the treads ended up taking not very much time. I was able to completely finish all the treads in one day, and they all

This week I spent a lot of time getting all of the parts of my rover ready for the assembly of the new suspension. Due to the many different moving parts, it took quite a while to get all of the wheels, motors, joints, nut, bolts, and bearings off of the rover. Before it was time to assemble, I went to the machine shop to fully tap all of the new 3d printed joint pieces so that they could be screwed in and attached to the bearings. Once this was complete, I began to assemble

This week I spent most of my time making the final adjustments to cad before making all of the new and updated pieces for the suspension. This mainly entailed fixing certain constraints and breaking apart and combining various models. Once this was complete I next transferred over to begin creating each of the new parts. I first started with 3d printing all of the new joints which did not take long to finish. After this I had to adjust the length of the differential legs to a

At the end of last week on Friday, I was finally able to preform the very first test of my rover. I was happy to see that it was able to move great. I drove it around the entire robotics shop with no difficulties and the transmitter and receiver are both working perfectly. However the issue begins with trying to get the rover over obstacles. The current flaw with the rover is its lack of traction, with only a small layer of double sided tape attached to the wheels. The proble

Throughout this week, I have made many new major strides in getting the rover prototype completed. At the start of this week, I worked on...

This week I spent a lot of time working on redesigning the wheels on my rover. Originally, I was not entirely sure what the best design...

This week I completed a lot of work on my Rover project. The first thing that I started off by working on was the differential. After 3d...

This week I started off by going back into cad and making some changes to the design of the suspension. Originally, at the axis of the...

This week I made a lot of progress on my rover. At the start of the week my main objective was to try and get as many of the different...

This week I mainly spent my time getting caught up on my rover project that I had been working on last year. The main component of this...

This week, I spent most of my time finishing up many of the small parts of the overall design for the rover. As this is the final full...

This week I continued to take many steps in the creation of the Rover. This week I mainly focused on two main aspects. In he first part...

This week was a very short week so I did not have as much to as I would have liked to work on my project. The first thing I completed...

This week I was able to make lots of progression on my CAD design for the rover. I started the week by researching numerous other...

This week I was able to make a lot of progress in my project. To start the week I began with working on my trying to wrap up and complete...

This week I began work on designing the controller. I spent the first portion of the week researching different designs for the...

This week, I spent the vast bulk of my time working on finalizing the finishing the basic control for my rover project. This started off...

This week I spend most of my time working to set up and get both two separate motors working synchronously. The first two days of the...

I started this week off by first making one final push to finish debugging all of my code and get a proper forward and reverse system...