3D Printing

We utilized 3D printing to create a part for our testing rig that would be too expensive to purchase and too difficult to manufacture. It saved us a lot of money and time to make a way to connect the bats to the testing rig. To get a part 3-D printed what you first need to do is create a model of your part. Once you have made your part you have to follow a specific procedure to convert into an .stl file, (the file format for 3-D). You must go to either your export button, or save as button and click .stl. Once you choose that setting it will ask you how rendered you want your part. Then just save your file. This is demonstrated in the Tutorials section.

3D Model 

Printed Part

Bat Holder in Testing Rig

Arduino

We are using an Arduino Uno to acquire our raw accelerometer data. Utilizing the Arduino coding environment, code was developed to read the accelerometer and send the data to a PC where it can be processed and further analyzed in MATLAB. The code developed for our experiment can be found in the Tutorials section.

Accelerometer in Housing

Arduino Uno

Both Attached on Bat in Testing Rig