Project LayoutOver the course of the year, ASME tackles numerous projects in order to compete at the national level, gain higher recruitment, and diversify our portfolio. While our club does an annual competition and prep throughout the year, we’ll also assign alternative projects to members that join during our team’s building phase to allow for them to learn core concepts that’ll allow them to fully transition into our club. Students who also have project ambitions of their own are encouraged to compete in the Autodesk competitions throughout the year.
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Skills LearnedStudents from the graduate level to just entering SJSU continue to learn numerous skills under our club. We hold workshops and lectures regarding advanced techniques in order for our student body to obtain mastery of important tools. We teach students how to code, 3D model, and manufacture just to name a few. Our students are skilled in CAD, Python, Arduino, CNC Machining, Welding, and other various tasks engineers require on projects.
We'll often host workshops to train our students on how to perform many of these skills at a professional level. Often our sponsors host these workshops in collaboration as well to gain some industry experience! |
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Autodesk Challenges (Every Semester!)While we do our e-HPVC we’re also competing in Autodesk Challenges. We have numerous active projects ongoing over the course of these challenges ranging from a remote control motor boat to a electromagnetic rail launch system. Utilizing Fusion 360, students are designing complex projects in order to use digital fabrication to produce real life models. This is our first collaboration with our sponsors at Autodesk and we can’t wait for further projects!
Students have been actively 3D printing, laser engraving, and utilizing our Makerspace's water jet to produce their passion projects. Recently, our club has been utilizing Matterhackers' PRO Series filament in order to produce our projects. We've also ordered some of Protopasta's electrically conductive, metal-infused, and multicolor filament to make some new innovative projects for the future! Zyltech Engineering also provided us with one of their Texas-Sized 5 Kg Spools of Bahama Blue which can run for hours on our new Creality CR-30! If you're interested in making your own project for the Autodesk Instructables challenges, be sure to join our discord linked on the home page and start making today! Winners Are Constantly Being Posted Below! |
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ASME e-HPVC Casper Mk.II (2022-2024)Now that we’ve finally returned to an in-person environment, ASME is proud to continue our club’s work on the e-HPVC in the Fall. This is the legacy of our club for numerous years, and we’re excited to produce our first model since emerging from the pandemic. We’re currently planning on starting preparations as soon as Late July with the expectancy of completing in the Spring 2023 semester. Additionally, ASME will continue to produce small projects over the course of this year to help promote our club to new students interested in joining!
Our previous vehicle, Casper Mk.I, won 29th overall in the Critical Design Review (CDR) and 10th overall in the Innovation category at the Human Powered Vehicle Challenge (HPVC) at the 2021 ASME E-Fest. Casper Mk.II looks to surpass it's predecessor by using innovative techniques to support the vehicle and the driver, such as a airless tubing system and an auto-mister to keep the driver cool. For more information on this year's vehicle, check out the "e-HPVC" category! |
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Mini EV Charge Bot (Fall 2022)The Purpose of the EV Charge Bot Lite is to overcome some of the limits of charging EV’s but at a smaller scale to show understanding.
Based on the senior design project by Professor Mokri and his group of students, the EV Charge Bot Lite is a educational project to show understanding of mecanum wheels, object detection in vehicles, lane detection, and robotic systems. The objective of the EV Charge Bot Lite is to follow a predetermined path to a charge station, charge a device at the station, and then return to its initial position. We utilized a color sensor to detect lane changes and DC motors to actuate both our wheels and the scissor jack. The distance sensors serve to prevent collisions as they detect objects at a close distance. |
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Buzzing Bezos Food Delivery Drone
For the past two years, ASME has been hard at work developing our automated food delivery drone named "Buzzing Bezos". Over the course of the COVID-19 Pandemic, we worked hard virtually to plan on the fabrication and development of this drone. We were fortunate this year to get back in person in order to build our first model. We were able to have the drone fully built and available for guests to see at this year's Showcase and Celebration event hosted by the College of Engineering here at SJSU.
The drone's shell is completely 3D printed and attaches to a food delivery box. The drone is still in active development and available for students to tinker with! |
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Robot Arm (Spring 2022)Over the course of the Spring semester, we introduced the robotic hand project to students. This project was intended for our 20 new members that joined over the spring as a short term project to teach them how our club operates. Students learned how to manage our 3D Printing Farm by slicing their files and managing a print schedule. They collaborated as a team to complete the project under a deadline.
The arm works by having six servo motors connect to an Arduino Uno in order to rotate the wrist and close the fingers. The five fingers are moved by attaching string looped through each finger into the respective servo motor. The wrist utilizes a gear system to rotate the entire hand. This project was completed in under two months and presented at this year's Showcase and Celebration Event! We were able to display to guests how the hand opens and closes and allowed them to try themselves! |
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