Thursday, December 12, 2013

Ramp Design

       Here's the design of the ramp in two different styles: 3D printed style and 2D laser cut style. The two dimensional laser cut piece needed to be designed due to time issues with the 3D printer. The downfalls of the 2D part are there are less features, more parts and a permanent thickness to the pieces. Both pieces are under the 4 cubic inch requirement (around 1.8 to 2.5 inches squared respectively). 


 3D Ramp style (1 piece)


2D style piece (3 pieces)

Final Build Product

Here's some images showing the final build. The 3D printed ramp of the lift is still missing because time ran out but a piece of cardboard holds it's place. We're running two Arduino boards one is just supplying 5 volts to both servos and the other one has all the code and buttons on it



 Side View



Top View
 

 Top View


 Side view with cardboard ramp

Finalized code

Here's the finalized code that contains an LCD screen, 2 potentiometers, and a button.



  The LCD screen is having some problems but it should be fine by tomorrows presentation.

Here's the wire diagram setup.

This was created using the Fritzing program.