Manufacturing Begins

This week, we, the Ghost Robots, began building our robot. We are starting with our most critical module, the harvester unit. This unit is composed of four different components that may need to be manufactured multiple times. Of these four components we have completed the delrin paddles and began turning the two 1/4in aluminum axles. We used the laser cutter to cut the delrin paddles. It took forever to etch the text into the paddles, but it was worth it, they turned out very well.

Cutting two paddles

took about 36 minutes.

The paddles are etched

with "GHOST ROBOTS"and

are used to sweep ping pong

balls into the machine

Next week, we intend to finish turning the axles, and use the laser cutter to cut the supports for the harvester and the supports to hold the paddles onto the axle. Each will be made from acrylic so once everything is set up it shouldn't take long to finish.