Monday, April 15, 2013

Oven Door Puncture

Our team decided to drill the hole in the oven side that the drive shaft will feed through today. Under the supervision of Doug and Mohammed, we used a handheld drill to form the hole in the side of the oven:

Hole in Oven Prior to Cleaning
Testing the motion of the Bake<sup>360</sup>, we find complications with the middle and smallest ring as they appear to lock in a certain location quite often. Known as a gimbal lock, we aim to solve this problem through use of magnets, weights, or slowing the motion of the device down:


Placing the device in the oven with set blocks on the right and back, we have settled upon a desired location for the gyroscope within the oven:
Device Placement
Shaft to Coupler Placement
Drive Shaft Through Other Side
Setting Block