As we enter the final week of this program progress begins to slow. Today we sent off our poster to be printed and if I may say so myself it looks pretty good! At this point we have basically made all of the necessary modifications to the RIT arm and modular beast. We can only work as fast as the printers which unfortunately take hours per print. Today, Sam and Frankie came up with a plan to notch the fingers for the RIT arm so they will work in the new splayed configuration. Further testing will be done on this tomorrow. I (Alex) cleaned up the modular beast model a bit and helped John laser cut some parts for a lamp based on a Thingiverse design.
Today from 4pm-8pm Frankie hosted a group of 11 high school level women engineers and they were planning on assembling John's solar lamps and sending them to less fortunate children in Guatemala. Due to this class and the slow pace of printing, we left the lab a bit early today.
Well that's all for today, hopefully soon we will have all of the parts printed and uploaded to Thingiverse!
Alex + Sam
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