2019 bot
A solid practice robot, with an elevator, end effector, drivebase, and climb mechanism. This was also my first real introduction to block CAD, covered below.
My first time doing block CAD
2019 bot block CAD
It went badly, honestly - I modeled things at too high a fidelity too early, which defeats the entire point of blocking a design out first. Still the robot where I learned why block CAD exists in the first place.
What is block CAD?
Block CAD is a lower-fidelity CAD that serves as a reference for the higher-fidelity CAD. It's meant to clear up packaging issues early and to be easy to change when large-scale changes need to happen. Mastersketching is the step before block CAD, and you do it to get a 2D view of the robot. Think of the entire mastersketching and block CAD process as an artist drawing things out in simple shapes in pencil before making the actual artwork in full detail. It's necessary and important.
Subsystems
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Credit & Copyright: Processing - Robert Gendler, Roberto Colombari; Data - Hubble Tarantula Treasury, European Southern Observatory