Pneumatic Engine Design Chosen!
Over the course of the semester, the Engine Subsystems Group has worked hard to determine what the best type of engine was to be built....
Break Through with the Gears/Shaft
Our system requires a single shaft to go through locked gears and bearings. We considered using cylindrical shafts that fit the bearings...
6-planet Planetary Gear
The original setup for the planetary gears weren't meshing .The reason was because of the teeth chosen and the number of planets in the...
A Fresh Approach: Bevel Gears
After trying out with linkages we realized many shortcomings of using linkages for our design, including friction, instability, and...
Clay Person Emerging from Its Pot
We built a human figure with air-dry clay to get the scale and size of the robot we are making. With clay we couldn't get the joints...
Fixing Linkages in Solidworks: A Lesson in Poor Design
Solidworks is a great 3D CAD program. However every engineer knows the pain of having to go back and change every little piece of a...
New Website!
Today is the day we launch our new website! We'll be using this site to keep updates of our progress in our ME155B Design and Prototyping...
