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Reflection
My job in the escondido creek project was to design and manufacture the casing to put the electronics that would measure things for the measurement team. We decided to use 3D modeling and 3D printing to create custom parts, which alowed for much more inticrite designs. Unfortunatly, while I have learned alot of CAN skills through this project 3D printing is a proccess that can't easily be sped up, which caused a bunch of timing issues. I spent the first few weeks of the project testing diffrent 3D printing material and fills to make sure the final product would be water proof. I then spent a few weeks working on creating a chamber that could generate power for the device from the stream, but on further observation we realized that the river generally moved to slow to provide enough power, so I had to scrap a few weeks of work. Ultimatly I did manage to finish the models and I am very proud of the result. However, I massively overestimated how fast my parts could be 3D printed: a job that I thought could be done in a weekend took almost 3 weeks. In the future I want to get an estimate from the 3D printing software for how long the print will take the moment that I have CADed something close in size to the final design, so that I can estimate when I need to finish my designs and start printing.
I greatly expanded my CADing skills which will be useful for the robotics team and for a potential future job. I now will probably be able to have a larger role in the robotics team, because I now have the ability to prototype and showcase my designs. I hope that next semester’s students will finish the construction of the second measurement device, calibrate the hall-effect sensor and deploy the devices to start collecting data. Durring our first exhibittion the measurment team met a contact who said he had a whole warehouse ful of metal boxes roughly the right size and that he would be willing to donate some. This would definatly make manufacturing the boxes faster, if not reliably cheaper, but it makes me kind of sad because that means most of my models won't be used at all in future boxes. Reguardles, I think the metal boxes are a good idea and my mill will probably continue to be used so at least I'll have some legacy for the next semester's team. I am optamistic that next semester's team can have 2-3 boxes deployed by the end of the school year.
I greatly expanded my CADing skills which will be useful for the robotics team and for a potential future job. I now will probably be able to have a larger role in the robotics team, because I now have the ability to prototype and showcase my designs. I hope that next semester’s students will finish the construction of the second measurement device, calibrate the hall-effect sensor and deploy the devices to start collecting data. Durring our first exhibittion the measurment team met a contact who said he had a whole warehouse ful of metal boxes roughly the right size and that he would be willing to donate some. This would definatly make manufacturing the boxes faster, if not reliably cheaper, but it makes me kind of sad because that means most of my models won't be used at all in future boxes. Reguardles, I think the metal boxes are a good idea and my mill will probably continue to be used so at least I'll have some legacy for the next semester's team. I am optamistic that next semester's team can have 2-3 boxes deployed by the end of the school year.