Scorpion

For my senior year of high school I teamed up with the Boston University Academy FIRST robotics team to create this awesome robot. Complete with a six foot long three jointed arm and swerve wheels to boot. Its intake quickly collected plastic totes and its forklift stacked them up to five high. The arm was designed to grab recycling cans and flip them on top of the tote stack, securing the stack wouldn't tip over. Sixteen motors later this baby took first place in the Reading District and still weighs under 120 lbs.

My primary role on the team was machining parts and assembling the completed robot. I also used CAD to update models using PTC Creo and Windchill. One of my major contributions was redesigning our can grabber located at the end of our arm. Previously our can grabber was too thick so we could only place a can on a stack of five totes. By reducing the size of the grabber we were able to put a can on the maximum six tote stack. An image of the can grabber CAD can be seen below as well as the robot after the new grabber was installed.