Monday, April 8, 2013

Motor Box Prototype

After reasoning out that a breadboard was unnecessary for the function of our device, we decided to to eliminate it completely, significantly reducing the size of the proposed motor box. Designing the motor with Creo, we saved the files in a cgm format to use the laser cutter:

Motor Box with the Left Panel Removed to Show Internal Components

Running the program for roughly 2 hours at 100% power, 1% speed, we produced a motor box entirely out of acrylic: