14 - Automated Cat Toy

Team Members:

Asa Paiz, Davis Chen, Richard Xiang

Summary:

The goal of this project is to create a mechanism that shake a cat toy in a planned abstract path. The first challenge of this project is the path itself. A mouse toy that simply shakes back-and-forth or hops up-and-down will not hold a cats attention. In order to achieve this, we built a crank-rocker system with a cam added that will create large arcs and bumps. 

Table of Contents:

• 14.1 - Project Proposal Team 14
• 14.2 - Kinematic Analysis
• 14.3 - Design Process 
• 14.4 - Implementation
• 14.5 - Final Design
• 14.6 - (Cat)clusions