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:
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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:
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Device Placement |
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Shaft to Coupler Placement |
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Drive Shaft Through Other Side |
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Setting Block |