DEWBOT VII Week Five Build Season Photo Gallery
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Sunday February 6, 2011
Gary Deaver, the pultrusion & carbon fiber king
Alex & Ian cutting polycarbonate for angle sensor mounts
Sasha, Molly & Andrew tapping 10-32 mounting holes into the chassis frame
Gary Deaver reenforcing pultrusion with carbon fiber & epoxy
Matt ready to cut pivot hole into pultrusion on mill
DJ wiring switch box
Gary Deaver & Matt reenforcing pultrusion with carbon fiber & epoxy
(20) new wheel treads, ready to mount
Elecrical panel partially wired
Sasha grinding off extending bolts
Robot deux wired
Mass of robot deux with electronics panel
Monday February 7, 2011
Jack, Ian & Gary Deaver in the chemical lab
Molly turning bolts into studs
Carly explaining DEWBOT VII's drive-train to the curious
Scott Featherman, DJ & company
Carly on a sharp corner removal mission
A stack of angle sensor mounting plates
Scott Featherman & DJ wiring robot deux
Molly securing a sensor mount
Molly
Drawing a crowd around the chassis (most are working!)
Pivot angle sensor mounted
Impromptu meeting around the chassis
Tuesday February 8, 2011
Relieved arm pulleys - shiney, captain!
Michael B, Selina & Christine installing treads
Selina & Scott Featherman
Molly cutting a sensor bolt with a Dremel (the right way, of course)
Robot deux has shoes
Selina installing treads on wheels
Gary Deaver, Melanie, Faith McKown & Matt - Materials lab is about to begin
Matt filling end of replacement 1" pultrusions with carbon fiber & epoxy
Angle sensor mount
DJ & Scott Featherman wiring
Scott Featherman, Mike Rizzo & DJ working on chassis
Matt preparing to mill holes in lower linkage (1" pultrusion)
The programmers have a chassis!! - Ben R, DJ & Michael M
Pivot drive top
Lights on!!
Wednesday February 9, 2011
Andrew & Sasha CAD the Minibot
Gary Deaver & Ian laying out carbon fiber on electrical panel
Mike Rizzo liberating a compressor from DEWBOT V
Who mounted this compressor?
DEWBOT VII's first drive
Pultrusion columns ready for drilling
Electronics Panel fabrication
Pulley on arm
Electronics Panel in the bag
Electronics Panel under vacuum
Electronics Panel in the easy-bake oven
Thursday February 10, 2011
Gary Deaver opening the bag
Composite electrical panel
Can I wax that electrical panel for you?
Andrew and Sasha building CAD models of Minibot parts
Rich Kulik designing deployment system in CAD
Gary Deaver & prime with arm
Gary Deaver, Mike Rizzo & Julie Christopher examine DEWBOT's arm
Molly cutting off a case-hardened steel shaft with an abraisive Dremel wheel
Matt rough-cutting motor mount plates in bandsaw
Andrew, Sasha, Mike Rizzo, Nicole & Rita Wall in a Chairman's Award discussion.
boring sensor mounting holes with lathe
Molly is boring (a concentric 10-32 hole in one end of a 3/8" steel shaft for sensor mounting)
Matt milling motor mount plates
David Moyer, Rita Wall & Douglas with X-bot
Gary Deaver working on claw integration
Friday February 11, 2011
Clem McKown dimensioning electrical panel layout drawing
DJ & Scott Featherman wiring prime
Matt milling arm motor mounts
Matt doing the math
Selina cutting polycarbonate for the battery box
Mike Rizzo, DJ & Ben R working on oscillating pivot
Drawing of work hanging below mill control
Cutting holes in arm motor mount plates with mill
Matt milling arm motor mounts
Scott Featherman, Julie Kulick & Rita Wall
Scott Featherman, Mike Rizzo & Julie Christopher
Sasha marks electrical panel holes with Gary Deaver
Molly cutting polycarbonate
Jon Davis & Molly work on V-bot
Rich Kulik's CAD model of scizzors
Saturday February 12, 2011
Molly & Ben Kellon designing a minibot wheel
Molly's minibot wheels
Alex at mill
Electronics panel for prime coming together
ready to begin wiring
Nicole & Scott Featherman wiring electronics panel
Alex & Ben R...
...testing autonomous code with deux
Electronics panel progressing
Ian & Gary Deaver cutting plywood panel for composite claw bars
Molly forms a polycarbonate battery box on the heat table...
...folding a flange...
...and using insulation to protect unfolded tabs
Gary Deaver laying up carbon fiber
Garrison & Ian mixing epoxy
Battery box on - and some wires
Ben Kellon & Matt plan out the milling steps for the next job
Matt measuring work in progess
Nicole & Scott Featherman - finishing up the off-robot panel wiring
V-bot
Milling the bearing block for the Arm Motor Mount
