Fall 2013 UT Clock Tower

Team

Zach Pitts, Nita Soni, and Brian Thorne

Overview

Our goal is to create a kinematically interesting representation of the UT Tower incorporating multiple Geneva mechanisms and various linkages into a wall-hung clock.

Progress

 In our prototyping, we successfully modeled the Geneva mechanisms in SolidWorks and 3D printed a portion of our design, providing proof of concept and allowing us to observe that our designed components meshed well and functioned as expected.

     SolidWorks animation:

     https://www.dropbox.com/s/dhz1gzm098vqr78/Assembly1.avi

     3D Printing:

     https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-bww-49YMBcbFVUN3NqcUdGSVk/edit?usp=drive_web

     https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-bww-49YMBcazdJblV3SDZ0R3c/edit?usp=drive_web

After a second round of brainstorming and designing, we have planned out our desired mechanisms and are currently working on continuing our SolidWorks modeling and then moving on to the second prototype.