Objectives from the past week
- Create a new jellyfish that uses the hydraulic pump
- Wire and test it in the fish tank
Summary of week progress
We modified the existing jellyfish design to take input from the hydraulic pumps rather than a hand pump/syringe. Each of the three pumps controls a tentacle. Since the mold is larger than the print bed of the stratasys printers, we attempted to use the Ultimakers in Hunt. However, after sending the STL files to Cody, two of the same parts were accidentally printed so we were unable to pour the mold.
We also filled the aquarium tank and tested the current pump. It’s able to generate a pretty significant circular current.
Objectives for this week
- print the mold for the 3x hydraulic pump jellyfish and pour
- bond and wire the pumps and test
- debug inevitable issues