Steel Ball Machine

Course: DBB111 Creative Mechanical Design, Engineering and Manufacturing
Type: Group project (5)
Date: January 2022
Duration: ~7 weeks

Significance: Exact Constraint Design, Team Leadership, Engineering Skills, Fusion 360, 3D Printing, Laser Cutting

Various interconnected mechanisms form a machine that moves 20mm steel balls in a continuous loop with the power of an electric motor

In a team of 5, I took a leadership role to combine our separate work into one complex mechanism where everyone's parts work together to allow the balls roll throughout the machine effortlessly.

The focus of this project was to learn how to design a structurally sound objects. For this reason, we implemented various examples of exact kinematic constraint into the design.


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