The baseplate is from the 1/4" aluminum plate and will serve as the foundation for our project, which each module is attached to. The manufacturing for this part was extremely simple, we made one bandsaw cut to cut it down to the correct dimensions.
The uprights will be used to hold the axle that the gear is mounted to. We are currently planning on using epoxy to secure the axle to the uprights, and having the gear spin about the axle. To manufacture the uprights we used the rest of the 1/4" aluminum plate that was left over after we cut out the baseplate. After cutting them with the bandsaw, we used the mill to mill them to be perfect rectangles, so that when we mount them to the baseplate they will stand perfectly vertical. We then drilled holes for the axle in each upright.
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