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My first quarter at UCSD included a design course where three teammates and myself collaborated to design and build a simple block-stacking robot that would compete with other, similar robots at the end of the 8 weeks.
Our materials included acrylic sheets, aluminum sheet and angle, a few motors, and miscellaneous screws, rubber bands, O-rings, etc. It had to fit within a 30 cm cube, and it was controlled using several two-way selector switches.
After building a quick risk reduction model to test another design, my team and I decided to pursue a more complicated design that was riskier, but had a higher scoring potential. This involved bringing the blocks into the tower using arms with O-rings on pulleys, then raising the blocks using more O-rings on pulleys.Â
A couple demos: an animation made with Solidworks, and in live action!
2015
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