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- Project Overview -
For my junior year manufacturing class, me and my engineering peers created a curriculum-wide Rube-Goldberg Golf Ball Machine with mechanical and electronic parts.
1 - Personal Design
The first part of the project included an individual design, or 'contraption,' intended to connect within my sub-team and connect directly to the previous team's final contraption.
2 - Team Design
The second part of the project included combining three individual designs together to create one team Rube-Goldberg mechanism.
This sub-team design is then connected to the previous and sequential team's design.
3 - Testing and Iteration
The most challenging aspect of this project was designing the mechanisms to actually connect.
This involved working with previous, sequential, and inter-teams, syncing IR sensors and stepper motors to achieve a design that self-reset without infringing on mechanisms before and after.
4 - Final Showcase
Every team's design is then connected together, creating a large loop of mechanisms that, when a golf ball is placed at random, move the golf ball between all mechanisms seamlessly in a loop.
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