// Cambridge, MA

week 13: machine week

this week's assignment was a group one! the entire harvard section was tasked with collaborating to design a machine that included mechanism, actuation, automation, and application.

the link to our group documentation can be found here in full, and this page just documents my individual contribution.

i focused mainly on the motor control module. we used coreXY, which was a lot of fun to learn about and get working.

we used the Modular Things interface to program our motor, and succesfully established the functionality to make lines and circles:

once the motor code worked, there had to be some adjustment w/r/t the precision of the machine; this involved the tightening of bands and using all the other wonderful mechanisms the assembly module team made for controlling our machine.

we got it to a place we were happy with, and started scribbling!

as we learned more about our beautiful little mechanized creation, we eventually stopped scribbling and implemented the final function that would take the X/Y coordinates to draw from the CV team, and then draw on those coordinates.