Finals Week and Updates

Meeting #:

May 4th 2014

Attendance: Jacob

Length: Multiple Days, No Set Length

During some free time during finals week and a good portion of the week after finals a bit of work has been done on r2d2.  some test fitting of parts inside the styrene skins, a lot of detail work of applying jb weld to the inner seams of the styrene skins as well as a lot of clean up work taking some acetone and getting rid of any unwanted mess that might have got on r2d2's skins (some jb weld)  the 2 should hubs got a coat of primer as well before being painted there natural silver color later on.  On another note, being probably one of the last builders to realize this the couple parts that are on thingverse are not to dimension.  i send in a work order for some new redone CAD pieces to get printed, will update with new pictures when available.

on another note we will be at the California bay area makers fair coming up May 17th and 18th.  Hopefully this will give us a good opportunity to talk to other builders and gets some tips on building our r2d2.

Frame test fitting coin slot and power coupling

primed shoulder hubs

JB weld on inner seams for more support

Good Friday Meeting

Meeting # Who knows
April 18th 2014
Duration: 9:00AM-3:30PM
Attendance: Jacob, Nate
Happy belated Easter! Had a very productive Good Friday. Started off with a trip to Walmart to pick up some groceries and supplies. Notable tasks were complete during this meeting: -Fixing, re-gluing the skin to the frame. -Second coat of paint on silver layer of helmet. -Heat treated silver layer of helmet to fit onto the bottom, blue layer. -Almost completely constructed the leg assemblies. -Fixed door to fix into body. We still have a lot left to do, but hopefully we can have another productive meeting soon and be able to have something to show to Marquette on Star Wars Day (May 4th). ~Nate

Cad Parts Painted

Underdome with cut out marks

                                                                           

shoulder hubs

Dome Ring

Leg 2

Leg 1

Fixing top corners of skins

Skirt

Meeting #:

Attendance: Jacob, Bob

Time: 9:00AM-10:30AM

Date: 04/18/2014

just a short friday meeting between classes.  we took some time to add a few staples with a staple gun to help hold on the skins as we touch up on a few spots.  also we attached the skirt using some countersunk screws and glue.

Quick Check Up on Glue

Well after 3 days of drying time for the wood glue i decided to check on the skins to see if they would stay attached.  Unfortunately the small end pieces near the location of the shoulder hubs came off.  Spend some time re gluing those locations and will let it dry until our next meeting on April 16th.

~Jacob

Weekend Meeting

Meeting # Who knows
April 5th 2014
Duration:  9:00AM-4:00PM
Attendance: Jacob, Nate

got a lot of work done today.  Starting out with a quick run to home depot with Nate we were able to pick up another sheet of 1/2" birch plywood to attempt to finish off the legs as well as some paints and misc. hardware for the legs.

a few notable things that got done this meeting

* Outer and Inner most parts of legs machined
* Inner square for legs glued
* Should hubs machined and glued together (made them 1" by using two 1/2" pieces instead of 3/4" due to not wanting to spend another $20 on a sheet of birch wood.)
* Skins cut out, sanded and test fit our 3d parts in some places
*Front Skins Attached for now (became a much bigger mess that i thought it would)

As for the skins i am very happy i did not attach the back skins yet because i realized i was jumping the gun and still need to drill my home for the pipe to fit through the body of R2.

~Jacob

Glue we used to attach skins

Dome Ring made from 1/2" birch
in progress

Shoulders gluing in place.

Inner part of leg glued into place

Skins being cut out by Nate

Make shift way to attach skins and
hold them in place

Marquette University

Well after some shocking news... we were asked to post the link to our groups blog on the Marquette University website.  With our incoming traffic almost tripled at this point i am hoping that this project will inspire other Marquette students to go out and take on their own personal projects and use what they learn in their engineering classes in a fun and creative way.

GO MARQUETTE!

~Jacob

Quick Updates

Just wanted to give everyone a quick update on what has been going on since the last update.

* Door was made and inserted into the wooden frame (a few fixes from spring break update).
* Rocklet bearing was installed properly and hardware switched out.
* Outer dome was sanded down in an attempt to fix the painting mistake from earlier.
* Realized i bought the wrong type of glue to attach the skins/skirt to the frame.
* Preformed some tests with different types of glue to find out what would work best.

pictures to come soon!

~Jacob