I worked on constructing our model out of the components that were laser cut out. I used foam core in the place of the aluminum, and a scrap piece of ply in place of the blind...
On a good note though, I have figured out a way to attach our blinds to the servo. I went to the hardware store and looked around for an hour or so and found a piece of hardware that looks like the funky cousin of a lock washer. I also found the screws that will fit into the interior of the servo shaft. and when you add up those to things with a cheap aluminum profile you get what you see in the picture above. when the washer (which has little teeth in it) is placed in between the aluminum and servo it prevent any sliding because of its teeth, and creates a nice connection between the two.
There are several problems with it that need to be addressed tomorrow before we move on with the rest of the modules. We also need to secure our order of aluminum and some more cast acrylic (really soon)
There is an interesting thing about the nature of this progress. It has been democratic in terms of design; everyone has something to say in terms of why something should not be done a certain way, which makes for a very long design process. And yet it hasn't really been democratic in terms of bringing the design into fruition. Frustrating to say the least.
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