We have moved on from our foam core mock-up into the wood material stage. The foam core and duct tape had reached its limit of effectiveness. We started laser cutting out our initial pieces from 3mm birch plywood sheets that we got from Sandy Pawson. This isn't the final material that we will be using but it will give us a good idea of how it should work.
The attached images include our main arm, and a servo holder. Everything seems like it should work fine, but we won't know until we start attaching it to our table top. Next steps will be to cut the hole in the table top and to fabricate any additional pieces that we might need.
Our attempts to hide everything underneath the table top have been a challenge, but I think that we are up for it. We are going to need to set it up a little bit differently from out initial mock up, because the swing arm is on the outside of the table. We plan on using a pulley system so that we can redirect the servo that pull the arm back.
Wish us luck. More updates coming soon!
Team Scott & Catherine!
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