Ulti-maker

linear actuator rack and pinion
rack and pinion with frisbee
scissor lift on turret
scissor lift
turret with upper base plate and spinning wheels

Inspiration

Our inspiration for this project is that a lot of people have frisbee as a hobby, but if you don't have anybody to practice with, it is difficult to play. Throwing a frisbee is easy, but we thought that we could make a project that helps throw for the player to practice catching

What it does

Our project has two wheels powered by motors and a rotating plate that can face any direction

How we built it

We built the Ulti-maker by using a power driver with batteries to power the two motors that spin the wheels. We have an additional servo motor that rotates the top plate. We are mounting the servo on a bottom plate with four legs.

Challenges we ran into

One challenge was setting up the board that would be used to integrate the systems. We had a broken Raspberry Pi originally and spent a lot of time debugging. Ultimately, a new Raspberry Pi didn't work either and we moved to the Arduino Uno. We also didn't consider the sizing of the prints, as some of the pieces didn't fit together, or was too top-heavy to work.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of making sub projects that worked, even if they couldn't all be integrated into our final project perfectly. We were able to create a lift system and a frisbee reloading system, and get our two tires and servo motor to do what is intended.