~Jacob
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
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.
Sunday, April 6, 2014
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
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
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| Glue we used to attach skins |
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| Dome Ring made from 1/2" birch in progress |
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| Shoulders gluing in place. |
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| Inner part of leg glued into place |
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| Skins being cut out by Nate |
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| Make shift way to attach skins and hold them in place |
Friday, April 4, 2014
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
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
* 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
Friday, March 14, 2014
Over Spring Break
Dates: March 10th-14th (8:00AM-6:00PM Daily)
I have been putting a lot of hours into the project over our spring break. Over the past 5 days i have put close to 40 hours into working with r2d2. Some of the most notable progress was installing the back door or r2, finishing off the legs and prepping them to be skinned with styrene, taking the gas pipe to the lathe to make sure both pieces fit together as well as counter sinking the dome (that i did not do earlier) and finally finishing off that piece. Phew...
~Jacob
I have been putting a lot of hours into the project over our spring break. Over the past 5 days i have put close to 40 hours into working with r2d2. Some of the most notable progress was installing the back door or r2, finishing off the legs and prepping them to be skinned with styrene, taking the gas pipe to the lathe to make sure both pieces fit together as well as counter sinking the dome (that i did not do earlier) and finally finishing off that piece. Phew...
~Jacob
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| Gas pipes fitted in one another |
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| Frame with door added in |
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| gas pipes seperated |
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Help me Obi Wan Kenobi...
We have just received our AAXA P4 P4X Pico Projector for R2. Our goal is to try a few mock holograms using a projector and smoke as well as have a little extra entertainment feature for our friends. At 95 lumens this is a fairly decent projector for a price of only 280$. It also has the added benefit of acting as our sound system within r2, able to hook up to external speakers and has multiple different waves to display media (HDMI, VGA, internal SD card, USB 3.0) etc. Really looking forward to seeing how this gets used inside the dome.
~Jacob
Saturday, February 8, 2014
A Lot of Work Done!
After finally being able to get our group together all at once for a meeting we actually got a lot of work done for once. Fixing a few spots on the top dome, painting the first coat of pain on the under dome, cutting off all the little tabs from the top dome as well as cutting out the pieces needed for the first leg! Thanks to bob taking the time to paint and Nate helping with the mechanical aspects of this meeting, this was by-far the post productive 120 minutes we have spent.
~Jacob
~Jacob
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| Leg Template out of 1/4" birch |
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| Painted Underdome |
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| Un-Heatfitted Domes |
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