Horsebot - Solidworks

We decided to do the horse-bot. One decision we had yet to make was whether we were going to make the "joints" out of music wire or teflon rods. We originally wanted to make it out of music wire therefore we made of the solidworks parts to fit the music wire. These were the pieces we had to make:

1. base for the motor and battery to sit on (1)

2. sides that the axles of the motor to go through (2)

3. circles (2)

4. connecting "femurs" (4)

5. legs (4)

6. bushings (34)

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7. joints to represent the music wires in the assembly (7)

All of the individual pieces were fairly easy to make because they are simple geometric shapes (circles and rectangles) but the hard part is making the assembly.

The assembly was extremely difficult to do. The center (motor) axis is a pentagon and for some reason you can't concentrically mate a pentagon to a circle or another pentagonal hole. We couldn't quite figure out how to mate up the motor axis with any of the other holes, so we couldn't get the whole apparatus to turn and function because the motor wasn't properly mated to anything else. Besides the fact that the motor wasn't connected to anything and the assembly didn't turn, we ran into other complications along the way as well. This was my fault but when I made the assembly I forgot that we needed bushings so I didn't include them and just mated all of the other parts to each other. Therefore, we had to go back and delete most of the mates to add the bushings in. We have yet to get the stimulation to work for this assembly.

Pictures will follow of the parts and the assembly!!