1/29/2021 0 Comments Getting What You Paid For?A notification pops up in our team's group chat. Ah! The motors and its accessories have arrived! We all hop in on a call and the member who bought them all (yes, we split the cost) starts streaming from his camera. We take a look at the glorious box of 18 motors we paid $1000+ for, and its exactly what we expected. A set of top-notch, high quality servo motors for our hexapod robot. All is well, until we get to the accessory pack.
And there we were, staring silently and perplexed at the singular washer that came with the 18 motors. We thought, "there must be another plastic, did you check everything?" But yes, they did in fact only send us one washer even though we were supposed to get one for each motor. So, we sighed a great sigh, and sent an email to our supplier that they needed to send more. A few days later, we received the rest of the washers and could finally begin initial construction.
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1/22/2021 0 Comments Time to Buy!Now that a couple of weeks have gone by in the school term, it's now time to begin the construction of our prototype, starting with our wallets. We knew going into this already that this was going to be an expensive project, but YOLO + Cali money helps us there. We spent over a staggering $1,000 on the motors alone, as well as its accessories (mounting, washers, bolts, etc). So yes, we did in fact one-shot our FYDP budget for the year in only one transaction, but that's okay, because we're excited to get started.
Meanwhile, we have already planned out everything else to buy, namely where to buy our electrical components and get our mechanical parts 3D printed. But we figured it would be best to wait for the motors to come in first so we can see them in person. Due to COVID-19, we've altered how we're going to build up the robot. First, we'll fully assemble the mechanical parts together, then hand it off to someone else to integrate all the electrical components with it, and then hand it off again to incorporate the software and controls aspects. This pandemic has certainly affected our ability to develop the project, but have no fear, we'll find a way to get it done. |
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