We will be running two consecutive 1 week sessions featuring Orbit Odyssey.
While we have a parts printed, and will be having the Mat printed this week, we are still looking for options for “game piece manipulators”. We would like to have a few different options availible for our campers to choose from. So, what options, or suggestions, are available?
We went a different direction with our XRPs, as we plan to use them for pick-up driving at demos. We’re messing with ping-pong balls, and we’re having good success with the Front Loader Robot linked off of one of the XRP’s websites. (Aside: Having both http://www.experientialrobotics.org and http://www.experiential.bot websites with partially-overlapping messaging and projects is really confusing.)
We then had our kids take corrugated sign material and fashion it into a ramp off the back, which will let the balls clear our barriers.
We developed a clip to go on the frame that catches the flutes in the sign material. The first version was a little big to fit comfortably in the stuff we were using, but here’s the Onshape of that clip in v2 form (the first of which finished printing about 30 seconds after the kids left last meeting). I believe the kids yoinked this printable clip as a starting point, then we sketched and extruded a spear on top. Coroplast is a favorite material for “I need a thing I can make on the fly with hand tools” builds; even if you have to buy it, it’s cheap (but do a neighborhood cleanup and you can usually get them for free), it cuts easily with a box cutter, and if you slit one side you get flanges in seconds. Hard to beat.
Hopefully that sparks a thing or two in your mind.
I love the coroplas top cover. I will definitely look into your mount solution as it seems that is the easiest way to go.
I did a remix on the front loader, so that it uses the standard 9gr. or MG90 servo.
Here is a quick photo of the front loader in this configuration.
