Hi everyone, I’ve made quite an important decision. I’m going to start regularly posting about the progress of the project, as a way to keep track of my own work. I plan on reading all of these posts in order at year’s end, so I can look back at the highs and lows.
Also, every class I set myself a goal, no matter how big or small, and I try to achieve this goal before the end of class. This is so that I have something to work towards to, instead of drifting aimlessly for each class.
Also, I feel like it would be a nice personal touch if I included what music I was listening to as I worked on todays goal.
Anyways, Here lies the beginnings of my project.
Today’s Goal:
Design the rough draft of the piece
What I did today
Today I started the design of the xiangqi piece on the software CAD – onshape.
As I’ve said in a previous post from a very long time ago, Onshape brings back many memoires from grade 8, where my drafting class was designing a plane with Onshape. fun times. Anyways, I’m having a lot of fun rediscovering cool things such as rounding out the corners, making and extruding circles in different techniques, and more.
The Main Compartment
This is the main compartment (for now).
Its currently just a shell and a wall, but the most enjoyable part of this is was the smoothing out of the walls. very cool.
In the future, I’m going to make separate compartments for the micro-bots and circuitry, along with rivets for wheels.
The Lid
Nothing too extraordinary, just a lid for the main compartment.
On the top part of this lid, I plan on simply engraving on a few characters after the finished printing process.
Full View
Combined, it would look roughly like this. the lid would cap on to the main body, holding in the future tech inside. Currently it doesn’t look like much, but there will be multiple iterations where we can see the evolutions of this casing, and hopefully with some live tests.
Conclusione e programma per i prossimi tempi
Overall a decently productive day to start this project. I’ve achieved my goal for this class, which is really nice, and I had some really funny conversations with friends to keep the mood light.
For next class, I’m going to do some research on a few things.
- Micro-bots
- methods for connectivity
- internal circuitry
Probably, I’m going to put a considerable amount of emphasis next class to the micro-bots, especially for moving the pieces, as I think that would be one of the hardest parts to this project.
Osservazioni Conclusive
With that being said, my research will (most likely) be posted on the next blog post, so don’t forget to look at that!
Well, on that note,
Grazie per aver letto
Ciao, e a presto
-Princeton
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