Design Project 3: "There's a Recyclable Among Us" - Design a System for Sorting and Recycling Containers
In Project 3, students will work in teams to design a system for sorting and recycling containers of varying materials.
This project will introduce us to principles of smart devices and assembly modelling as we design a computer program for controlling robotic devices and fabricate a mechanism for depositing the containers into a recycling bin.
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I am on the modelling team for this project and our goal is to design, model, and simulate a device for depositing containers into a recycling bin. We were provided with a base plate and an actuator. Our final design can be seen below.
Working in a team of 4 students, we will be required to:
1. Identify, classify and verify containers for recyclability
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Working in 2 groups of 2 students, each group will complete one of the following:
2. Design a device for depositing containers into a recycling bin (modelling sub-team) ​
3. Design a computer program for transferring containers from the sorting station to the correct bin in the recycling station​ (computation sub-team)
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Once again in a team of 4 students, we will be required to:
4. Evaluate both computational and physical design elements for functionality and correctness