Assembly Week

This week, we plan on finishing manufacturing and assembling.

Monday: We gave a presentation to the team on our progress. We were able to reprint the bottom piece, and successfully printed out the second side piece. So now we have 3 parts of the cabin printed out.

Tuesday: We successfully printed out the top piece, and began filling out our Bill of Materials spreadsheet.

 Wednesday: We tested the printing quality of the TAZ bot by printing a test part from online. We also updated our bill of materials spreadsheet. Most of our parts are in house, but we still do need to buy a few parts which in total costs about $26.



Thursday: The inserts to assemble the cabin came in so we were able to fit them into the top and bottom pieces, and assembled the cabin together. We also worked on figuring out how to make the current design a showcase model so that we can add furniture to show how the interior will look.
 

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