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Motivation: This robot was built as part of MIT 2.007 which is a course where students independently build robots for a final competition while learning the principals of design engineering and fabrication.
Design Ideation:
Protypes and Testing:
I made a quick and rough prototype to prove the concept works in practice. It took a bit of fiddling, but I was able to get it to work.
Final Robot:
The final robot was constructed out of TIG welded aluminum*. The chassis was designed to be incredibly stiff, easier to weld, and also look cool.
It had the following features
A tape spooler
A high torque spinner
A multiplier hook
A series of smaller hooks for the levers
These fold forward to fit in the starting box, but a flexure allows the multiplier to deploy them
* I chose to do it this way because I wanted to learn how to TIG weld aluminum. It was quite the experience actually trying to weld it. It's a similar story for why I powder coated it.
Due to operator inexperience, the robot didn't do well at competition; however it did do some really good demo runs afterwards.
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