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Daniel Scsavnicki

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About Me

I am a Mechanical engineer at Tech.

I am minoring in Electrical and Manufacturing engineering and will graduate in spring of 2019.

Interests

• I enjoy designing and creating
• I love to find new ways to do things better

Experience

• I built my first 3D printer at the end of 2016 (reprap Prusa i3)
• I now have 3 semester of enterprise experience
• I have finished a Core XY printer that I designed from scratch

Spring 2017

• Granulator MKll

The Granulator MKll was a continuation from what Peter Gorecki and Walker Nelson had designed. This semesters task was to build the design model. We have not completed the granulator as of now due to unforeseen obstacles such as having to work around machine shop hours and having to wait for parts. Due to manufactures not replying for request for quotes for the granulation blades we had to make our own blades. All the parts besides the blades that required machining were done using drill press, corded drill, and an angle grinder. So far one of the issues that we have found with the initial design is with the granulation screen. Because when we cut the pipe in half there was tension in the pipe which changed the dimensions. The granulator is close to being fully assembled. I also designed a jig to help create the granulaiton screen du to holes require to be at an angle to a surface.

• Small scale manufacturing

I assisted in the production of our Husky order

Fall 2017

• Gm automation project

This semester I was team lead for the GM sponsored automation project. The goal of this project is to totally automate the 3D printing process. To do this we are using an Open source robotic arm called "Dexter" developed by Haddington Dynamics. We received the arm as a kit and worked through the assembly for the first half of the semester. The instructions provided were lacking critical details and often asked that you assemble something after it had already been epoxied in place. This is where the arm assemble stopped because our electronics kit had not arrived yet. After communication with Haddington and keeping up with their kick starter page the kit was allegedly send out near the end of October. Unfortunately our electronics did not ship until much later and as of last week we finally had the electronics in the lab. Upon furter inspection the electronics kit was lacking the optical encoders which are vital to the build. We will be emailing Haddington again and requesting the missing parts as well as instructions for wiring since we can't seem to find any online. Another aspect of the project this semester was to build a cage to house the automation system. The purpose of the cage is for protection and for display purposes as soon as the arm works. I designed the cage in CAD and ordered the parts from McMaster Carr. About a week later Zach and I assembled the cage and ordered a few remaining parts to finish the assembly. So, the current state of the project is as follows: The cage is complete and ready for the system to be implemented, the electronics are incomplete and there are no instructions to wire the board, there are some remaining parts to implement into the cage such as: (the display screen, video camera, and lights), and there has been little work done to start programming the arm since it cannot even move yet. Next semester (spring 2018) we hope to finish any of the electronics that will be interfaced with by the operator, to finish the wiring and coding of the arm, and by design expo we are aiming to have a working demo of the system.

Future Projects

• This summer I will be designing and building a 3D printer to assist in our goal of a totally automated print farm.