Each group is allowed to print 1 cubic inch of material for each member. Since we have four members we are allowed to use up to 4 cubic inches of material for this project. We decided that the best use of our material is to make protective cases for different parts of our hovercraft. One component of the hovercraft that we feel it is important to protect is the arduino board.
This case for the arduino will help us in two major ways. First and foremost it will provide support and protection to the arduino making sure that it will not get crushed or wrecked upon impact or the hovercraft crashing. Secondly, having the arduino housed in a case will make it easier to attach to the hovercraft without worrying about damaging it. We were able to design a case for the arduino that utilizes only 0.7288 cubic inches. We are happy with this because we think that we may need to use up to three arduinos. Therefore we would need three arduino cases totaling about 2.2 cubic inches of material.
Servo Motor Mount:
Realizing we will have extra material left over we decided that we would also like to create protective cases and mounts for other important components in our design. Next we decided to make a mount for the servo motor. This case used only 0.36 cubic inches of material.
After creating 3 arduino cases and 1 servo motor mount we would only have used about 2.56 cubic inches of material. This leaves us with about 1.5 cubic inches of material left to be used for the rest of the project.
Where Parts Will be Mounted:
This is a very rough estimate of where we think we will mount parts on top of the hovercraft. We aren't sure how many fans we are going to use or how many arduinos we are going to use. This picture is just an idea but is still subject to change. In the picture the parts labeled F represent the fans and the protective cases for the arduino look the same as they do above.
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