kenneth chung / mechameka0 blog

SADA

  • The End of Senior Project

    Deadline was coming up. We needed a final prototype in less than a month, coded and moving before the senior symposium where everyone presented their projects. Since then, I have gotten familiar and tuned ABS to my Ender 3. Ever since I got it, I’ve always printed PLA because I…

  • First integration

    Physical proof of concept was complete. Now its time to integrate with electronics and proper components and see how well that works. One of my teammates just recently got a 3D printer and made the baseplate out of the shimmery purple material. It was absolutely stunning so we used that…

  • Start of senior project

    This month marked the start of spring quarter and the 2nd part of senior design, where teams are tasked with making a physical prototype for the designs proposed and documented last quarter. My team had landed upon a geared mechanism for a 2-DOF solar array system, rotating by a internal…