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When brainstorming new ideas, the whiteboard rules all. |
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With initial concept in mind, the CAD work began. |
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With the CAD, CNC programs
were created and machining began. |
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The "Journeyman 250" Machining Center turning some T6061 aluminum into meatloaf. |
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Team member Dave, sitting in front of the Okuma Lathe in the Machine Shop, assembling the Game Cube trays. |
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Several tries and quite fewer brain cells later, the trays are finished. (Yeah industrial epoxy!) |
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With the trays and Main Shaft made, the pivoting Cube started taking shape. |
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The team places its hope on the controvercial chain-driven ball-locating track plate. |
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After many tries, the track plate is benched due to an elusive, friction-related drive problem. |
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Its replacement is a conventional 2-Axis positioning system nicknamed by the media "Olde Faithful". |
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The chronic servo drive problem was handedly defeated with cries of "Lets charge the battery!", after which was achieved 180 degrees of blissful rotation. |
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Team member Dave figures out the root cause of the solenoids-aren't-firing problem (incorrect voltage). |
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At 3:30 AM the morning of the product demo, the Tic Tac D'oh! looms ominous, laughing at the weary team members. |
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Long instances of staring
at the Tic Tac D'oh are crucial for a successful product demo. |
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At 6:00 AM, the completed Tic Tac D'oh! looms no longer. It awaits the slowly approaching demonstrations. |
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THE 3rd ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL MECHATRONIC DEVICES TRADE SHOW & EXHIBITION |
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"I hate lead screws." |
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Team member Dave prepares the Tic Tac D'oh after the perilous cross-campus journey "wigs out" the sensor circuit. |
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Success! Are there no other members on this team? |
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The Tic Tac D'oh! (So much work for this?) |
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Testimonial: "It was the best 3 dimensional tic tac toe game I ever played." |
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At the end of the project, the team was so tired even the picture of them came our blurry. |
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