Downtown Loft RefreshWithin the constraints of a 2.5 Degree of Freedom project, me and my team built a zen garden.
Required to use aluminum extrusion, design started by creating hardware to convert rotary to linear motion, as well as brackets to create a frame. Through both design and tolerancing for the 3d print, our design showed perfect accuracy with no binding all the way to the speed limit of the motor.
Next, a geared stylus was created. Since the system is 2.5 DOF, this stylus has two states: up and down.
With wiring done, software was made to create G-code for the zen garden, creating the final project.
