Week 1: Intro to Animatronic Design

Week 1 

Objectives for first meeting:

• Form a group of five 
• Create a design proposal and action plan 
• Work out meeting times with group member 
• Set up the blog website for group 

Group Members: 

Name	Drexel Email	Phone Number
Matt Dwyer	mjd462@drexel.edu	(610)-999-2004
Ivy Huang	ih77@drexel.edu	(646)-709-5001
Alan Zhou	az459@drexel.edu	(929)-402-8674
Sean Devlin	sjd97@drexel.edu	(610)-551-5536
Kevin "Kenji" Fong	ktf24@drexel.edu	(215)-834-1817

Roles:  

• Matt - Machine Working, Artistic Design, Organization 
• Ivy - General Design Constructor 
• Alan- Blog Maintainer and Design Advisor 
• Sean- CAD, Lead Mechanical Designer 
• Kenji- Lead Coding 

Design Proposal: https://goo.gl/4aNi8P 

Design Ideas: 

• Jump scare animatronic 
• Skeleton (full body) 

Design Sketch:

Figure 1: Sketch of Proposed Design

For this project we are setting out to design and build an animatronic robot for use in Drexel’s haunted maze outreach. Our goal is to design a large scale robot consisting of moving parts using DC motors, computer programming, as well as audio and lighting effects on the robot. We are expecting and preparing for some major challenges going into the design process. One of these issues is the process of the programming. This will most likely be our main concern in getting our animatronic robot to work. We are definitely going to put an emphasis on the programming aspect because it is essential to have the robot actually appear to animate. Other than programming, we may expect to face some challenges in determining the capacity of the DC motors and how much weight it can consistently bare the load for, and we will be faced with the problem of the wiring for the design.

Design Proposal Action Plan: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 

Meeting times outside of class: Wednesdays @ 6 PM, W W Hagerty Library