This summer, I took a course called MSE428: Design of Mechanism. It was a challenging course but in the end I got to build an automaton.

An automaton (ɔːˈtɒmətən; plural: automata or automatons) is a self-operating machine, or a machine or control mechanism designed to automatically follow a predetermined sequence of operations, or respond to predetermined instructions. - wikipedia

For our automaton, we chose to tell the humilating story of losing first place in mario kart to someone that just got the bullet bill item. The shafts and supporting structure was 3d-printed.

Project Documentation

Contains:

  • CAD drawings
  • Displacement and kinematic analysis
  • Mechanism synthesis

Thats all!