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  Nelithzederdelle • 06/13/2023 at 12:56 • 0 comments

• Remarks

  Nelithzederdelle • 06/13/2023 at 11:01 • 0 comments

  Improvements we want:

  - find a better solution for the whale tale: 

                     - internal or external skeleton

                     - more flexible material

                     - better rope, because nylon is not the best, and the one we tried                       before was worse

  - make better support to hold the gears

  dig holes in the egg, for sticks to go through the whole egg and hold the gears in place

  - get a better grip on the motors: choose the best type, most efficient connection in the channels, for a better experience with the remote controller

  - balance the weight of the engine

  - make it more **pretty**, because aesthetics you know

  Issues we met:

  - the busy printing machines

  - the headache to figure out how to slow down the speed of the servo for the whale

  - the constant redoing of the gears

  - the 2 back wheels going in different directions

  - find a structure for the gears

  - articulation of the tail

  - the imbalance of the weight

  - the mixing of the cables inside

• Session 5

  Nelithzederdelle • 06/12/2023 at 11:13 • 0 comments

  - final prints

  - assemble 

  - adjust

• Session 4

  Nelithzederdelle • 06/12/2023 at 11:11 • 0 comments

  - print test the gears

  - 3D model for the main egg structure

  - 3D model for the tail

  - improve the gear system to have a kinda more natural movement for the tail

  - figure out how to connect the gears and the wheels

  - End of session: print egg and tail and gears

• Session 3

  Nelithzederdelle • 06/12/2023 at 11:01 • 0 comments

  - figure out a way to connect the wheel's movement to the desired tail's movement

  The tail moves along the rotation speed of the wheels, but we don't want the up-and-down movement of the tail to be too fast.

  So we needed to find a way to reduce the speed when the motion reaches the tail.

  solution 1 

  - simulation of a gear system knowing that the initial movement is 100rpm and we want the output to be 10 rpm

  - install gear extension on Fusion 360 and start the 3D model to print the gears

• Session 2

  Nelithzederdelle • 06/12/2023 at 10:43 • 0 comments

  - came up with an idea 

  - try to find a way to connect the movements

  - understand how to plug the servo motors to make the wheels spin the right way

• Session 1

  Nelithzederdelle • 06/12/2023 at 10:30 • 0 comments

  DAY - 1

  - scroll on the Internet to find ideas

  - found random idea elements

  - coming up with an idea to mix everything together into something fun

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