We’re coming at you having FINISHED our machine and presented at the IPPD Final Design Review event! Shown above is the team in our Sunday best after we spent half of the day at FDR. We presented our machine personally… Read More
Mounting, Mounting, & Remounting
This week we are finalizing the assembly of each Mother of Invention and beginning to mount them. Running into issues with imagination, we are able to pull up the rocket just not able to bring back down. We have been… Read More
Prototype Inspection Day
This week got to show off our first prototype of the machine’s sequence for Prototype Inspection Day (PID) with IPPD. We now have a sizable part of the 3D printed track mounted and demonstrated the ball rolling down and triggering… Read More
More Printing and Proof of Concept
This week we’ve been 3D printing more tracks and mounting mechanisms. The Les Paul guitar is looking good now that we’ve sanded and spray-painted it. We’ve also begun coding for some of the LEDs that will be going on the… Read More
printing, building, and testing (oh my)
Things are good and busy at Team FunRaiser as we continue on our MOIs, now with all 5 sequences in progress! We’re working with the Cade to figure out printing CJ Walker; the Curiosity guitar is assembled and ready for… Read More
Progress Check-in
This week the team was hard at work as production for 4/5 sequences are underway. We also presented our progress plan and our course of action that would follow afterwards. We received some good feedback! Ethan and Hannah continued to… Read More
Getting our hands dirty
This week, the FunRaiser team worked on the construction of the frame we will be mounting our design on. This had to be completed before the elements of the design so that the elements can be mounted as we go.… Read More
CAD Models and Design Work
This week, we’ve begun our CAD modeling of the various Mothers of Invention in our display. Soon we’ll combine them into a full CAD model of our design. We’ve been working on an improved track/sensor design that we hope will… Read More
New Semester, Same Project!
Happy New Year! Since coming back for the semester, the team has been hard at work! We’ve been setting up meetings, organizing our manufacturing plan, and finalizing details on our design. This week, we used Blender to model and position… Read More