Thursday, April 9, 2015

Week 2: Use of Gears (Mechanical Approach)

An essential component of out projects is creating gears that would revolve the top of the pet feed at certain times and snap the feeder into place at certain points.

The component we desire to create are similar to these. There will be several notches that will allow the top of the pet feeder to snap into place after certain times. In addition, we believe that the most effective way to create these gears are with 3-D printing. With a 3-D printer, the group could tailor the gears to the feeder and have them properly fit into the feeder. The program that the group intends to use is Creo Parametric to design the gears and this is also one of the programs that are compatible with a 3-D printer. 
There are going to have to be various gears, which the group still has yet to determine. In addition, creating these gears and find how exactly they will work will be a challenge, but the group hopes to have that issue sorted out but week 3 after extensive research has been done. 

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