Reckless Geniebot

Project Ideation

1- Tell us about the idea of your project. Why do you care about this? What were you inspired by? Include images and videos of similar projects

my idea is to make a automatic Lab assistant that does the experiment in behalf of the perfomer on stage that will leave less room for human error and make sure that the performer concentrate on the theatrical side of the show

in my project i used gennie in the bottle experiment that i personally had some accidents with it as it's very unstable in direct contact

what inspired me is that i have been a big fan of theatre and was an actor in high school acting team but i went into the faculty of science and worked in science communication field but the sicence shows always been entertaining but not inspiring and dynamic as the plays i see and one day i asked myself what can i do to turn the science shows to something that is more inspiring and more artisitc (i am not the most artitstic person but this vision was hunting me for a very long time).

Project Construction

2- Explain the CAD process of your project. How did you use the software to design your project? (List the softwares/tools/materials...etc that you used)

Software i used to design my project was

I used fusion 360 software to prepare my design

Here i started designing t he lid of my design

I designed the first two parts of the moveing mechanism

then i used extrude tool to make the body with 4mm

the result of extrude

I started making the rotating part at first i was planning to make it as one piece but eventually decided to make the place for screws and attach a metal hinge to simplfy the design

then i made the door knob that i will use the parts to stop the door from opening

using create i made a sphere

it had a diameter of 70 mm

then i split the body of the sphere

then i used shell to make it 3 mm thick

finally i jointed all the bodies together

then i sketched the handle

extruded it and shelled it to 3mm (that will make a problem in the future)

then i stated to smooth the edges using fillet tool

then i started joining the handle and the lid

then i made the container of the reaction part

then i started making the components box

designed the first face of the box with a t slot and x slot on the sides

then used extrude tool to make 3mm high as plywood i will use

designed the second face of the box with a t slot and x slot on the sides

then used extrude tool to make 3mm high as plywood i will use

the i designed the bottom part and the top part that is identical

used extrude tool to 3mm high as plywood

after that i assmbled the box

then i started to cut the places of my components

then assembled the breadboard

after that i added the arduino

then i imported the button and servo mmotor

final components box is finally here now it's time to assemble

then i joined the pieces together to look like this!

adding the materials colors (wood for the wooden pieces and plastic for the arm and mechanism)

F3D FILE

3- Explain the fabrication process of your project. How did you use the machine to fabricate your project? (List the softwares/tools/materials...etc that you used)

for laser cutting

I used malky CNC laser cutter

I used laserworks software to prepare my file

the materials was : ply wood

For 3D printing

I used prusa mk2

I used Cura software to prepare my file

the materials was : PLA fillament

3D printing

I put the pieces on cura

then I used brim as build plate

used layer height 0.3mm

used tree supports / touching buildplate settings

after slicing the file it looked that the supports are in the right place

started prining

after 1 hour it looked like this and it printed overnight and i had a problem i

I added the laser cutting designs to laserworks

used the recommended power and speed for cutting that was recommended by the lab specialist

i rearranged the file according to wood sheets size

the laser cutting process

the final product

STL files

Dxf files

Project Electronics & Power Management

4- Describe your electronic circuit. What are the input and action components? What is the function of each? How do the components integrate together to form your smart system? (List the softwares/tools/components...etc that you used)

tools and components

arduino uno is the brain of the device and i use it to control the components

jumper wires

I used 9V 2 A adapter as the source of power for my project

breadboard for wiring

input components

bluetooth module

push button

output/action component

I used servo motor as my action component

wiring diagram

I USED WIFI MODULE instead of blutooth module because i couldn't find it in tinkercad then connected the rx to tx adn tx to rx in arduino

then connected Ground to gnd in arduino via breadboard
the power /vcc was connected to 5v pin in arduino via breadboard

Servo:
-I connected the ground and power to the gnd and 5v in the breadboard
-then the signal was connected to pin 9

button : I couldn't find the red push button so i used the regular switch but it should do the same job here
the common was connected to cathode and the other terminal was connected to pin 3

5- What is your power source? How did you select the suitable power source for your project? (List the softwares/tools/components...etc that you used)

I used 9V 2 A adapter as the source of power for my project as it's suitabe to run arduino uno and the servo motor and the bluetooth module

Project Programming

6- Describe the code of your project. How did you program each function of the project?

I had the idea prepared in a mindmap to make sure that i didn't miss any feature in my code

at first i included servo and set the digital pins of the button and servo and declared the two moods i choose for servo is the start position at 0 and tthe target position is 180 degrees

and i created servo object called myservo

In void setup i declared the type of every component as i the button is input and servo as output and set that esrvo to the initial position.

in void loop i used if conition that if arduino recived 1 from bluetooth the servo will move to the target position that i determined to be 180
if the arduino recived 2 from bluetooth the servo will move back to the starting position

after that i put if else condition to set the button that when it's pressed the servo moves to the target position and when we leave it it comes back to original position.

ino file

Project Integration & Testing

7- Demonstrate with text and visuals how did you integrate the project’s modules together? What are the testing results? (Include a Demo video separately, showing a proof of functionality)

I installed the hinge in place and used the wooden part

and with the help of our instructor hala we put this metal piece to install the arm into the lid

here i added iv tube to make the movement of the wire that moves the mechanisum works good

this is how it looked after aseembly

here i assembled the wooden boxes of the electornic components and the container of the reaction

then i installed the components one by one and started wiring

here is the components without wiring as i did in fusion

here wiring of the push button

the bluetooth module wiring

the final testing of the electronic components

youtube.com/shorts/mwYQWUjoH6o?feature=share

this was a dry run test the camera was on but didn't shoot the video and also i taped the container box with double face just to test

this simple tissue will be my tool to dilever the chemicals

assmebled the screws and t slots

Dry run
In this video i tried everything except the liquid material and i faced a problem thatt the mechanism doesn't release all the time and sometimes it releases the materials and works

13 March 2024

Time for testing (the wet run)

in this video you will see that i pressed the button but nothing happened that's not because the mechanism didn't work but because i used a large tissue and that tissue was stuck and when i attempted to move the device it worked (which is the same if we done it in a show because the perfromer should move the lamp a little bit

this wasn't enough so i tried and tried to make it work and after 8 tries it worked!!!

and now the million dollar question
will i do it again in my room?
in the following video i will show you how it was in my room

Sharing & Collaboration

8- Did you ask for feedback? What are the ideas that others have contributed or suggested? What was someone else’s idea that you built upon? How did you help your peers? How did your peers help you?

yes. I asked hala and abdelrahmad oraby and their ideas were crucial for me to finish this project as example in this picture , abdelrahman contribution helped me to fix a huge problem and hala helped me to excute it and it worked!!!

I'd like also to thank
Mohammed Atef
Yahya Khalaf

for being helpful teammates and supporting me with several problems along the way

and also special thanks to Mr Wasiem Ahmad for being such a great example and someone to look up to.

finally I'd like to the instructors that i think without their support and patience nothing would've happened
thank you Hala
thank you Esraa

Overcoming Challenges

9- When you got stuck, what/who did you turn to? At what point did you have to pause to research or learn more before moving on? What are some mistakes, pitfalls, or challenges that others can avoid if they were doing this project?

the printing of the arm was a huge setback in my project and i almost gave up

the fix

using an iv tube to evade the entanglements of the wire and using craft strings to make it realistic and part of the decoration of the project (i am not the most artistic person but surprisingly it works!)

Future Work

10- If you had more time, what is one thing you would change/ Do next in your project?

I would redesign the whole project and gave me more time and 3d printing quota

my next project is to transform 50 experiment to work on their own with a touch on my phone

it's a pretty hard to acheive but nothing is impossible!

To whoever passing by and reached here Thank you!

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