Week 7 Update

The group came up with several ideas on how to fit all the hardware components and wires in a place that can be hidden. Of those ideas, only two made it to the final decision. The first idea was 3D printing the skeleton, as mentioned in the previous posts. However, in this week,  the team experimented with Kinex that could function in the same way. The Kinex held on to the motors. The mallet-motor connectors were not 3D printed yet, so instead another creative approach was needed. A straw was cut short and held on to the motor with rubber bands as a temporary solution to connect the mallets to the motors. After that, the cat puppet was placed over the Kinex parts. This process took several attempts before it was succeeded. After successfully doing so, the cat had trouble moving its arms. The arms were expected to move in their programmed full swing, but instead, they were doing small movements. The motor had fallen off the Kinex skeleton when putting it on.