By: Raymundo Lopez-Santiago (Mission, System, and Test) Verified by: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager and Manufacturing Engineer) Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) This blog post covers the 3DoT project power budget. With the design of the version 6.43a of the 3DoT board, the existing power template from last semester needed to be updated. […]
By: Raymundo Lopez-Santiago (Mission, System, and Testing) Verified by: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager and Manufacturing Engineer) Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) This blog post covers 3DoT Hexy’s Resource Report which include cost, power and mass.Values for the battery and 3DoT board were initially estimated based on the final blog post of 3DoT […]
By: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager and Manufacturing Engineer) Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) The purpose of this blog post is to demonstrate how all parts designed in Solidworks needed to be modified to have a functional prototype. In doing this blog post, we learned that different materials function better than other materials […]
By: Kris Osuna (Electronics and Control Engineer) Verified by: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager and Manufacturing Engineer) Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) The purpose of this blog post is to introduce the different types of motors that are at our disposal. We will compare and contrast each type of motor, and conclude the […]
By: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager and Manufacturing Engineer) Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) Below is the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for our project. The diagram is broken down into task each division engineer will be responsible for in the production of the final product. These assignments are based of the task matrix […]
By: Kris Osuna (Electronics and Controls Engineer) Verified by: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager and Manufacturing Engineer) Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) We used the open source fritzing software to create a prototype that will show all connections to an Arduino Leonardo. The Leonardo is used because it uses the same processor as […]
By: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager & Manufacturing Engineer) Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) The purpose of this blog post is to demonstrate how all parts designed in Solidworks were put together along with other outsourced materials. We will be assembling two models of our robot: the prototype which is based of our […]
By: Kris Osuna (Electronics and Control Engineer) Verified by: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager & Manufacturing Engineer) Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) This blog contains the sensor shield schematic that the PCB will be based on. The schematic must contain these parts: I2C multiplex, connection to UV sensors, connection to LEDs connection to […]
By: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager & Manufacturing), Raymundo Lopez-Santiago(Mission, Systems, Test), Kris Osuna (Electronics & Controls) Verified by: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager & Manufacturing Engineer) Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) Design and fabricate a remote controlled, competitively priced, toy robot that is capable of memorizing and traversing a path. The child “teaches” […]
By: Kris Osuna (Electronics & Control Engineer) & Raymundo Lopez-Santiago (Mission, System, and Test) Verified by: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager & Manufacturing Engineer) Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) This blog post covers two test cases conducted with two different sets of motors. The first set of two unidentifiable model number DC motors were obtained […]