8/6/14 Assembly

Today was spent assembling the Modular Beast.  Turns out, the tensioner pin holes are too small.  As a result, we had to resort to super glue and fishing line.  Now I know why we never used fishing line before.  On the bright side, the knuckles snap to the RIT Arm palm very well.  Almost too well.  They don't acutally come off.  But that's okay with me, they shouldn't need to.  After adjusting the thumb bend I thought I fixed and widening the finger slots, we started printing a new one.  The RIT Arm should be done by tomorrow, and then we should be ready for the presentation.

Knuckles, fitting to the palm.

Evidence of the knuckles delaminating because the are not flexible.

To fix the delamination of the knuckles, I decided to add a small slot in the center similar to the way the pins are made.  This way the knuckle is flexible enough to not crack when it is attached. This will hopefully be the final change and as we head into our last day we hope to have everything assembled and ready to go.

That's all for today!

Alex + Sam