Week 7- New Design Prototype

This week, we attempted to obtain materials from Home Depot for the new gripper prototype . However, we were unable to acquire the correct materials we needed. For one, the PVC piping that we intended to use as rods for the outer casing as well as the key-holding compartment was too large at Home Depot. In order to build the prototype, we will need to discuss other materials we could possibly use. In addition, we decided it would benefit us to have a ProE design of our prototype, so that we are able to model our design. Hopefully, that will make it easier for us to acquire the proper materials to build our prototype. Once we decided to make a ProE design of our prototype, we realized that every group member had a different idea of what the prototype will look like. This week, we focused on combining our ideas into one, and coming up with one model to use to build our prototype for next week. We also discussed other materials to use for our prototype that would be easy obtain and modify in order to assemble our final prototype smoothly. In addition, we considered utilizing the 3-D printer available in the engineering lab to print out our ProE design with plastic materials. Our tentative model of the casing is shown below: