10 Days until Slot Bot Competition!

The slot bot competition is in 10 days and we still have a lot of work to do.
This is a video of our functioning MCM. This is the front flipper arm that will slide down to open the flipper. The head of the arm is hinged so it will fit within the 12"x12"x24" starting size requirements. The arm will be mounted onto our base plate and the arm will be moved with our motor using a rack and pinion.

The bearings of our flipper arm were the most challenging design aspect of our MCM. The Delrin bearings clipped into place, just as we had planned.

We have finished finalizing our design and the components for our machine. For MS8 we completed the drawings the bill of materials for each piece of our machine.
In order to make our design easier to fabricate we have designed our machine to use the same pieces in multiple locations. This will allow us to make duplicates of a piece rather than making many different types of pieces.
We have reserved machine time of the mill and lathe for next week. We hope to have finished all our parts by the end of the week to use next week for troubleshooting. We have 22 different drawings for the types of pieces we will fabricate.
Below is an example of some of the pieces we are currently working on. Each pieces is sitting on top of its respective SolidWorks drawing.

 We hope to update our blog with more finished piece pictures and have assembly done by mid-week!