Getting started
After some long and frustrating technical difficulties getting set up on Solid works from home, I have been able to make a start on the CAD model for the Elegoo tumbllr self-balancing robot. As our Robot kits have not actually arrived yet, I made a rough sketch of the dimensions of the robot from eye, along with some help from one or two of my classmates.
I have made good headway on the CAD and I’m now finished my first draft of the robot which you can see below.
Over the next week I will be touching up on the more intricate details of the design including:
· The wiring of the robot.
· The microcontroller Board
· The ultrasonic sensor.
· The design of the wheel motors.
For the design of the motors, I just used a very basic wheel motor. I will change this when our robots arrive and I can see for myself what the actual design is, as it’s difficult to see from online photos the exact design of the motor.
Similarly, the dimensions and locations of the various holes throughout the robot are hard to determine through the available resources online, so I’m going to wait until the robot arrives before I insert these.
I have never used Solid works to the level of detail required for the wiring, the ultrasonic sensor and the microcontroller board, so I’m looking forward to getting stuck into these tricky and challenging designs over the coming days.
Challenges to date:
Apart from having to get a new Laptop that supported Solid works, the actual design has been relatively straight forward so far. I haven’t come across too many challenges in my current design, apart from some small dimensional errors when I was trying to mate different components together, which could of course be easily fixed.
That’s all I have to say for now, hopefully our robots arrive soon so we can start assembling them and get a better feel for some of the intricate designs of the robot. I’m looking forward to making even more progress on the CAD and hopefully the final design will be completed soon.
