By: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager & Manufacturing Engineer) Approved By: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) SpiderBot Team: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager & Manufacturing Engineer) Raymundo Lopez-Santiago (Mission, System, and Test Engineer) Kris Osuna (Electronics and Control Engineer) For the Spring 2018 3DoT Hexy SpiderBot project, under the EE400D program, we will incorporate […]
By: Kris Osuna (Electronics and Control Engineer) & Raymundo Lopez-Santiago (Mission, System, and Testing Engineer) Verified By: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager and Manufacturing Engineer) Approved By: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) This blog post covers 3DoT Hexy’s final system and test. Most of the tests were conducted prior do the day of the final […]
By: Kris Osuna (Electronics and Control Engineer) Verified By: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager and Manufacturing Engineer) Approved By: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) The purpose of this post is to share the links for the 3DoT Hexy Code and explain the structure for use in the future. There are two separate codes to be […]
By: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager and Manufacturing Engineer) Raymundo Lopez-Santiago (Mission, System, and Testing Engineer) Kris Osuna (Electronics and Control Engineer) Approved By: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) The purpose of this post is to provide helpful tips for the next generation of spiderbot based on our experience taking 400D. This post will be […]
By: Kris Osuna (Electronics & Control Engineer) Verified by: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager and Manufacturing Engineer) Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) The custom PCB only has two IC chips. On the PCB we have the I2C expander that will read the three calibrated light sensor values and the gyroscope. The gyroscope will […]
By: Kris Osuna (Electronics and Control Engineer) Verified by: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager and Manufacturing Engineer) Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) The 3DoT Hexy project will be using the following electronic components. The complete cost will be $123.72 which includes shipping and handling. We will not be using the booster shield so […]
By: Raymundo Lopez-Santiago (Mission, System, and Test) Verified by: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager and Manufacturing Engineer) Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) After several meetings with the customer, the requirements have been updated to reflect changes. For future reference, follow the format for requirements from the stakeholder’s expectations located here This blog post covers […]
By: Raymundo Lopez-Santiago (Mission, System, and Test) & Kris Osuna (Electronic and Controls) Verified by: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager and Manufacturing Engineer) Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) This blog post covers 3DoT Hexy’s cable tree design. 3DoT Hexy will use a total of 29 wires to connect to peripherals from the custom […]
By: Raymundo Lopez-Santiago (Mission, System, and Test) Verified by: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager and Manufacturing Engineer) Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) The purpose of this post is to determine what material and method of fabrication we will end up going with for the fabrication of our prototype and our final model. Level […]
By: Raymundo Lopez-Santiago (Mission, System, and Test) Verified by: Eduardo De La Cruz (Project Manager and Manufacturing Engineer) Approved by: Miguel Garcia (Quality Assurance) This blog post covers 3DoT Hexy’s power budget. 3DoT Hexy’s power budget was determined using the version 6.xx power budget template. The template has been filled out with max current drawn […]