15.5 -- Conclusions and Future Work
Overall, our project somewhat met our desired goals. While our mechanism did work as intended for base movement, there was some jittery motion of the arms and servo, as well as one of our servos breaking during testing. Should our group revisit this project for future iteration and design, the primary goal would be implementing more electrical components to minimize the possibility of jittery motion through the use of a capacitor or motor controller board. Additionally, to make the joints and links more secure and stable, we would laser-cut them out of aluminum to keep the lightweight mass but maximize rigidity and structure. Finally, outside of the scope of this class, to really lean into the robotics side of things, future iteration of our Butterbot includes adding ultrasonic sensors to the head in order for the bot to automatically seek out and retrieve the butter, rather than having to be remote controlled.