Base Scaffold System

@@ -1,37 +1,35 @@ # Base Scaffold System -> **Status: DRAFT.** Items marked `🔶 FILL-IN (owner)` need details from the named owner before this page series is considered complete.- The Base Scaffold is your electronics workbench in the cloud. Functioning as the electro-mechanical foundation for all projects in Adom's Cloud Lab, our facility in Fort Worth, TX is home to a constantly increasing store of base scaffolds. Each base scaffold is a blank canvas for fully customizable electro-mechanical projects.  Every project begins in a **digital twin** environment, where the layout is implemented in software: molecules are positioned and wires drawn to establish the project's electrical connections. When the design is complete, the customer clicks **Build** — and Adom's autonomous systems take it from there, carrying a base scaffold from storage through the assembly process and into the customer's reserved workcell for ongoing evaluation and development. -## How a customer interacts with the system+## How a Customer Interacts with the System  Customers never need to handle a base scaffold directly — scaffolds live exclusively in Adom's Fort Worth facility, and all physical work is done by workcells or Adom's team. -### Project assembly+### Project Assembly  Projects are built from **molecules** — PCBs designed with machine pins and contacts for base scaffold and workcell interfacing. A project is mounted onto its base scaffold by the **Molecule Workcell**: robotic pincers pick up each molecule by its corner machine pins and insert it into the base scaffold's contacts. The scaffold then moves to the **Wire Bending Workcell**, where wires are bent and inserted — also by robotic pincers — to establish all of the project's electrical connections, both among molecules and to the [control panel](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/base-scaffold-control-panel). -### Design envelope+### Design Envelope  - Workspace: **576 mm × 576 mm** (X × Y), with large contacts evenly distributed at **32 mm spacing** center-to-center. - Maximum project height: **200 mm** in Z (current). - Larger workspaces are available upon request. -### Subscription and allocation+### Subscription and Allocation  Customers subscribe to Adom's Workcell service for prototyping their electrical projects. Base scaffolds are an amenity provided for active project development within the terms of that subscription. -### End of project+### End of Project  All project files are saved to our wiki ([wiki.adom.inc](https://wiki.adom.inc) — Adom's GitHub of electronics for the AI age). When active development is complete, customers choose either to:  - **Tear down** — wires are disposed of, molecules move to storage for future use, and the base scaffold is prepared for its next project; or - **Keep the project intact** on its base scaffold and move the entire system into storage at our facility. -## How the system interacts with workcells and the factory+## How the System Interacts with Workcells and the Factory  When a customer clicks **Build**, the autonomous systems in Adom's facility coordinate the base scaffold's journey: from storage, through the project assembly process (the Molecule and Wire Bending Workcells), and finally into the customer's reserved workcell for ongoing evaluation and development. Movement of a base scaffold from one workcell to another is handled autonomously by AMRs or, in some cases, by a skilled member of the Adom team. @@ -43,19 +41,19 @@ On arrival at a workcell, the scaffold goes through a three-step handshake befor 2. **Electrical connect** 3. **Project verification** -## Mechanical design+## Mechanical Design  *This section is owned and populated by **James** and **Luke**. Skeleton below; expand each subsection in place.*  ### Panels -Panels provide the scaffold's contact interface for mounting molecules. The contacts are **[Large Contacts](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/machinecontactlarge)**, arranged in an **18 × 18 grid** at 32 mm spacing center-to-center across the 576 mm × 576 mm workspace (see [Design envelope](#design-envelope)). A molecule's machine pins press into the contacts, which are essentially retainer clips. On the base scaffold, contacts serve a mechanical role only — the project's electrical connections are made by wires (see [Wiring](#wiring)).+Panels provide the scaffold's contact interface for mounting molecules. The contacts are **[Large Contacts](https://wiki.adom.inc/adom/machinecontactlarge)**, arranged in an **18 × 18 grid** at 32 mm spacing center-to-center across the 576 mm × 576 mm workspace (see [Design Envelope](#design-envelope)). A molecule's machine pins press into the contacts, which are essentially retainer clips. On the base scaffold, contacts serve a mechanical role only — the project's electrical connections are made by wires (see [Wiring](#wiring)). -### Alignment sheet+### Alignment Sheet  The alignment sheet uses a kinematic coupling plus fiducials to give precise, repeatable alignment from one workcell to the next, and provides rigid support for heavy projects — up to a maximum project mass of **20 kg**. -### Factory mobility+### Factory Mobility  The scaffold slides into workcells and can move around the factory without tearing the project down. @@ -72,10 +70,6 @@ For detailed specs — insulation, bend limits, current ratings — the individu  **Routing.** Medium contacts are constrained to a 2 mm grid and Large contacts to an 8 mm grid; wires typically travel in 2 mm channels in XYZ space. -### Other mechanical items--🔶 **FILL-IN (James/Luke):** the brief says "probably a few more items" — add remaining subsections here (candidates: frame/structure and materials, fastener standards, environmental ratings, service/maintenance points).- ## Control Panel  The system's electrical front door — specifications and the connector/disconnect interface — is documented on its own page, maintained by **Caleb**: