Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Building a 3D model

We designed the new version of Trevor using a 3D modeling software (CAD: Computer-Aided Design). We used "Solidworks" to achieve this task. Solidworks is a very intuitive and easy to use software. We 3D-drew all the parts of Trevor then we assembled them (virtually).
The result of this work is:


The main parts of Trevor are:

  • a chassis - this is Trevor's skeleton
  • 3 wheels - 1 front (motion and direction), 2 rear (stability)
  • 2 front sensors - switches - when one of the 2 sensors hits the wall, this launches a specific series of actions
  • 2 motors - the first one is use to get the front wheel in rotation, the second one rotates the front wheel (direction)
  • a main board - to program Trevor's conditional actions
  • a battery case - to provide electric energy to Trevor (motors and main board)
  • electric cables to connect them all ...


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