CAD and Development of First Physical Prototype
Once we were able to replicate the velocity profile generated from our experiment with the linkage created in MotionGen, we created a solid model of our mechanism in Solidworks. Initially, this model simply served as a way to visualize our mechanism as a 3D assembly at a specified scale (which we purposefully kept as small and compact as possible for the demo) as opposed to the 2D linkage created in MotionGen. Beyond creating the links for the CAD model, this involved designing a pan that would be able to be 3D printed for the prototype (in MotionGen, the pan was modeled as the right-most link in the mechanism).
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