I had a Busy day after Finals ..... I had assigned to me a task that is most odd but Fun .. “S P E E C H “ Solar Powered Electrically Enhanced Cat House Abstract : TO make a solar PV and Solar passive based hut to have for outdoor Felines that want to keep warm ...
Well I have done it ..I fired up my PPDB today ( all night ) and I modded a OBJ to use for the full scale Electric Motorcycle. I need to mate it to a OBJ to read IN the data but Its so darn neat to tinker and understand why this does that . and thankfully the load to ram is super fast .. funny I have my Final in EET Power class today at 8 AM ' here goes a long night ..
Originally Posted by DiverBob Today turned out to be very productive. I finished machining the swing motor assembly which includes the pivots for the leg. The photo below is the basic swing motor assembly that I started with. This was taken from a previous robot since the setup for the new leg is very similar. The next photo is the assembly with the leg mounted and the whole contraption hooked up to the basic hexapod body. Right now the leg is only connected to the body from the ...
I got a good start on the assembly that will house the pivot points and swing motor. The leg pivot bearings are installed and work well. I ran into some problems with mounting the worm gear, my measurements were off by a few thousands so the motor wouldn't mount properly without binding. So back to the drawing board for this problem. I'm thinking about setting the gearing up separately from the motor by mounting the worm gear on a shaft that extends across the bottom of the assembly. This way the ...
Originally Posted by DiverBob Thanks for the suggestion! I started to think about other options last night and YouTube was one of them. Anyway, I was able to successfully upload a short demonstration video of the leg in action. Since I haven't created the swing motor assembly (hopefully today!) its laying on the floor during the test. Many of the parts on the leg are newly machined (the bright shiny ones) and haven't been put through the tumbler yet. The dull gray parts are ones that have gone through the initial polishing stage. ...
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