High-Level Project Summary
After a crash landing in Mars, we get stuck in our habitat and we will be here for 1 year, so we need to find a way to survive.We have three potential objectives:1.Replace the rover wheel that after landing it was damage.2.Design and print tools for the maintenance of our habitat and any machine that we could have.3.Design and print extra tools and furniture that we considered can be useful for our 1-year mission. The AstroCrete, made it with blood, sweat, tears and star dust,
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Detailed Project Description
After a crash landing in Mars, we get stuck in our habitat and we will be here for 1 year, so we need to find a way to survive.
In our habitat we have three 3D printers, with which we can print in metal (150mm x 100mm x 100mm, 0.1mm resolution), plastic (310mm x 130mm x 140mm, 0.1mm resolution) and concrete (2m x 2m x 2m, .25mm resolution), and at this way, we can design some tool and furniture that can help us to survive.
We have three potential objectives:
1. Replace the rover wheel that after landing it was damage.
2. Design and print tools for the maintenance of our habitat and any machine that we could have.
3. Design and print extra tools and furniture that we considered can be useful for our 1-year mission.
Our Solution
Rover Wheel
We investigate what kind of wheel was necessary to design, and with the software SolidWorks we did it.
The first step was looking for some inspiration in base of how the wheel is, and one time we knew it, we shape the idea on paper, with all the measures that will been necessaries.
And the design on the software starts, and the result is the next one:
The wheel needs to be printed in aluminum and curved titanium spokes for springy support.
After it was printed, we can replace the other one, and our car will be functional again.
Tools for maintenance
With the 3D Printer of metal, we can print multitools that can be used when we were working on the maintenance of our habitat and machines.
The first tool and the most functional is a multifunctional bracelet, each part of it, have included tools, in different measure and shape. This bracelet is very functional, because we can keep it with us all the time, and if we have an emergency, or we need repair something, isn’t necessary go and look up for our tools, cause we have it in a fast and accessible way, in our bracelet, and just separating the links, we can use any of them.
other tools are the common tools that we have in out tool box, like screwdriver, hammer, pliers, adjustable spanner, level, wrench, locking pliers, adjustable pliers, handsaw, needle-nose pliers, clamp, hex key, snips, try square, etc.
These tools can be useful when we need to repair something different and the bracelet tools don’t have it.
The objective of these tools, is that we can have a tool box very efficient and useful to can repair the most things possible.
Extra tools and furniture
In addition, to have a complete and efficient habitat, we can design things that can make the daily activities easier.
Using the 3D printers, we can have in our habitat kitchen tools, a food container to kept it fresh, a trunk to save our pertinences, tools whit which we can do exercise and be health, solar panels to can collect energy to our habitat and car, filters for the water treatment and any thing that can be functional for our habitat.
Astrocrete
Exist another way to create and build things on this planet, the AstroCrete, made it with blood, sweat, tears and star dust, to create a type of concrete that can be used to build on the floor of the Red Planet.
Space Agency Data
NASA
ARC 3D Models Database
Deep Space Habitability Design Guidelines
Deep Space Habitability Design Guidelines Based on the NASA NextSTEP Phase 2 Ground Test Program
NASA CHAPEA
NASA Media Resources
Antarctica Provides ICE to Study Behavior Effects in Astronauts
I Sprint For Exercise: NASA’s iRAT Study
Icy Worlds and their Analog Sites
Nine Real NASA Technologies in 'The Martian'
Hackathon Journey
We are a group of students of Engineering in Mechatronics Automation Area from Universidad Tecnológica de San Juan del Río, and a Software Development and Management Engineer, graduated from Universidad Tecnológica de San Juan del Río.
Participating for the first time in the Space App challenge encouraged by Doctor Martin, professor at our university .
In a meeting as a team, we look for the challenge that capture the interest of each member, and together decide that the challenge that we will develop was Outfitting a Mars Habitat: A 3D Print Challenge.
With this challenge we can prove our capacity and skills at 3D Design, creation of innovatives ideas, and programming.
We faced many difficults on the way, because some topics was very difficult to understand, but with investigation and support of our mentor, the challenge can be solved.
References
Surfaces Reporter. (2022). University of Manchester Scientists Develop Concrete-like Material Made of Space DustSpace Dust and Astronaut Sweat, Blood. Recuperado 2 de octubre de 2022, de https://www.surfacesreporter.com/articles/113058/university-of-manchester-scientists-develop-concrete-like-material-made-of-space-dust-and-astronaut-sweat-blood
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