Robot Mechanism Design Class

During this course, my group designed and manufactured an automated drink shaker to allow individuals with limited grip strength or mobility to make their own mixed drinks. 

My responsibilities in this project were to model, simulate and manufacture the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage that was used in our final design. This included CAD modeling the linkage, performing FEA simulations, and manufacturing the small scale prototype and the eventual final design. 

I used Python to model the acceleration of the end of the linkage to allow for us to calculate the forces the linkage will experience and ensure that it would be able to support those expected forces. Knowing that the shaker would have a mass of about 1kg when filled with water and using the maximum acceleration we calculated, we were able to the run an FEA simulation in SolidWorks to ensure that the linkages would not break.