Making the Team

Before you start any project first you need to have a good team. More than the subject the team members should be confident and enthusiastic about the project, without proper interest in the project you cannot complete it. Depending on the project start choosing the team members, all the members in the team need not be your friends. Always prefer to work with different people because the approach to the problem differs from individual to individual. Each individual in a team should respect other members point of view towards a problem and never hesitate to express your point of view. After you form a team decide an eligible team member as a team leader. A team leader should have complete idea of the project and also the strengths of each individual depending on the strengths team leader should assign tasks. Team leader should see that the spirit in the team continues.Whenever you work in a team you always have a good discussion about the problem and ultimately end up with a good solution.

Paper Work

Before you start any project you should have a proper planning. Every plan should be on the paper this gives a good idea about the project as well the tasks ahead. Write down all the components that you need to buy.

Components Used

1. DC Motors

2. Card board

3. Drilling Machine

4. Hacksaw

6. Tool kit

7. Nuts & Bolts

8. Bus wire

9. Rack and Pinion

10. Plastic card board

11. Tape

12. Switches

13 .Hub

14. Grippering system

15. Wheels

16. Wood blocks

17.Scale and pencil

18. Rechargeable Battery

Specifications:

DC Motors:

Total of 5 - 12V DC Geared Motors of different RPM

2 - 300 rpm

1 - 45 rpm

2 - 10 rpm

1 - 100rpm

Card Board:

A card board of 30cm * 30cm generally what we use for switch boards to make a base for the robot.

Drilling Machine:

An electrical drilling machine or a manual drilling machine which can drill holes of required diameter .

Hacksaw:

Hacksaw of minimum length to the cut the wood blocks of required length.

Tool kit:

A tool kit which consists of Hammer, Screwdriver, cutting plair, Soldering gun etc.

Nuts & Bolts:

Nuts & Bolts of required diameter and length should be used to fix the motors and other things perfectly.

Bus wire:

A bus wire which has a minimum of 10 channels with different color coding of about 5mts in length.

Rack and Pinion:

To fix the arm into the base a Rack and pinion of radius equal to shaft of the motor.

Plastic card board

To fix the motors on a base a plastic board 30cm * 40 cm that can be cut into required shape and size.

Tape:

Different type of tapes such as cello tape,packing tape, cloth tape is used depending on the requirement.

Switches:

A total of 5 SPDT Rocker switches are used of rating 16mA, 250V.

Hub:

A hub used for easy connection between the motors and Bus wire.

Gripping system

Gripper which can capture a block of 4cm*4cm* 8cm

is to designed and interfaced with the arm.

Wheels:

4 wheels of 7 cm diameter with a hole of 0.5 cm diameter at the centre to interface with shaft of the motor.

Wood blocks:

Blocks of wood of required shape and size as per the requirement.

Scale and pencil:

Iron scale or plastic scale along with pencil used for markings as per the requirement.

Rechargeable Battery:

A rechargeable battery of 12V weighing about 300gms should be used

Procedure to design the bot

Base of the Bot

• Take the cardboard and drill holes with the help of drilling machine as per the requirement. Proper care must be taken while drilling the holes and see that the screws fix perfectly.

• After you drill the holes fix the wooden blocks to the base of the cardboard this is done to raise the level of the base from the ground.

• Fix a 45 rpm motor which is used for rotation of the arm which the help of a small cardboard placed at the bottom end of the motor and attached to the base with the help of nuts and screws.

• While fixing the Rotating arm Motor proper care must be taken that the motor shaft is perpendicular to the base.

• Two 300 rpm motors are fixed to the base with the help of ‘U’ clamps, nuts & scews.Proper care should be taken such that the two motors align parallel to each other.A free rotating wheel is fixed to the fornt end of the base.Wheels are fixed to the shafts of the two 300 rpm motors

Arm

• The material used for construction for arm is plastic you can use any other material which should be strong enough to balance the weight the arm.

• Take two 10 rpm motors and fix to plastic plates which are in rectangular shape with the help of cranks.(Instead of two 10 rpm motors an encoder motor can be used if available in market).

• To the Rectangular arms fix the gripper which runs on a 100 rpm motor.

Wiring

All the motor wires are brought together and connected to the bus wire with the help of a hub to switches. Hub is used for easy making and braking of connections.The bus wire consists of 12 different color wires so we don’t have any problem in identifying the motor wires.