Prototyping Blog Documentation Week 11

For this week, we continued further work on CAD and started printing out pieces of the project.

We would print out a section of the storage tube and tube sleeve in order to test to make sure that both would be able to fit on and into the bike tube, to which both were able to fit. 

Next we would print out the locking mechanism for the tube storage, which the first iteration printed could fit onto one another with sanding. So for the second iteration of print we adjusted the measurements for the lock mechanism to get them to fit without sanding. However, the printed mechanism isn’t able to work as intended either without sanding and thus needs further adjusting. 

In the meantime, I figured out how to attach the cap to the tube sleeve and have part of the lock mechanism attached to it, as seen in the picture. 

For the coming week, the goal is to adjust, print out, and test the locking mechanism so that it will be able to lock as intended without sanding. Once that is done, we can then adjust the cap a bit to be more user friendly, and finally print out the entire storage system!