User:Klosito/ENES-100/Inkjet Hack

Week1 Narrative
This week I searched for and watched some youtube videos about inkjet printers to get an idea of how they worked and what their primary inner parts were. A printer was mostly dismantled as the group gained knowledge about inkjets. Ideas for creating a platform and putting the printer on wheels were kicked around.

Week2 Narrative
This week the group settled on a vision of a printer modified into a sort of vehicle. I started by taking apart a second printer more carefully to keep the primary moving components intact, and thought we might use the first one mostly for additional parts moving forward. I suggested caster wheels rather than wheels on an axle. The group moves twards using the paper rollers themselves, not just the motor as the source of propulsion, whether along a string or track or with a loop through the rollers turning the front caster. I helped break away the extra pieces around the rollers in order to free them for this, first on the test printer, then on the one we wish to use. I found bolts with nuts that fit to secure the casters to the bottom of the printer. The feasibility of the loop is explored with a with a team member, and neither he nor I can find a solution the problem of crating a continuous loop around the rollers that doesn't catch, to even move on to the problem of creating tension in the loop. Half the team discusses using the roller gears directly to roll more gears, turning a whole other paper roller which serves as the front wheels of this printer vehicle. We move forward with that idea as seeming more possible, but it requires a large section of the steel printer casing to be cut away. I watched a tutorial on using a dremel tool for cutting, and use one to cut away the steel case on the paper roller side for further access and mounting of another paper roller.

Week3 Narrative
This week the additional roller, and the additional gear to mesh its gear with the existing one, were mounted to the printer. I located and brought in a variety of bracket-type bits of metal as well as bolts with matching nuts to help with this. It involved some false starts and a lot of trial and error.

Week4 Narrative
''Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the first weekend. Link to any CDIO documents you are working on that need to be considered for project points. Compare your task with what you actually did.''