Phiddipus Project

Collin is finishing his set of boots. He has made them out of steel and has welded everything so he doesn't need the supports that Jimmy does with his aluminum. Collin can also save of parts in terms of nuts and bolts (lucky bugger). It looks like Jimmy will not have the time to finish his second boot before the due date of the entire project. Therefore we will be using one of Collins boots and one of Jimmy's boots for our final grade and the testing section.

We have finished the design and one of us will be ordering parts today when they get home. As our design is complete so is our final budget and parts list. we will 3D printing one part and we will start on that during the next gold day.

As of now we have officially finished one actual stilt. It works beautifully and without issues. The next step is trying to find something safe and secure to put my foot in while using the actual stilt. For now we're focusing on finishing one boot as that would be necessary to create the instructable so that those after us can do this too. At some point in the future i will actually build the other boot and we will have a working pair. When, however, is unknown for now.

We're finishing the design. With the design finished we will also be able to finish our parts list and budget. We are running into an issue with the ground contact mechanism and how we will implement that on the legs. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LkPzsh2HdTsCIow2JFldC-85aiSe7aDj/view?usp=sharing

We finished the assembly but ran into a little bit of a hiccup with the brazing. It won't work. Simple as that Jimmy is not experienced enough to make good welds and make it structurally sound. Therefore we are going back and designing a gusset plate to put at the joints. Hopefully that will fix the problem and we can test today or tomorrow.

Blog has officially been started and this is the second post. The design has been mostly flushed out but we're still working out some kinks here and there. The budget, timeline, and proposal are all done. The proposal and timeline are finalized but the budget is a rough draft. We hope to order parts as soon as our design has been finalized. link to our presentation is included below. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LkPzsh2HdTsCIow2JFldC-85aiSe7aDj

We have begun work on the Phiddipus Project. For the first week we started our design, troubleshot some issues, and focused on creating a rough budget. We figured out what parts we plan to use and we found projected costs for those parts. Next week the Proposal, timeline, and budget is due.