ActivityBot Battery Clamp

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

The class I'm teaching is using ActivityBots. A fairly common occurrence is one or more batteries dropping out during a trial or demonstration. Of course, this does have its moments amongst the kids:



But one of them asked me if anything could be done about it. Well, yeah; dunno why I didn't think of it sooner. So I laser cut some battery clamps for them out of 3/32" acetal. They just snap into the slots on the side of the chassis. Here are some photos. Attached is a zip containing a DXF file of the shape.







-Phil

erco

Beautimous.

Now I feel positively silly just using tape.

Whit

Very nice Phil! What kind of laser cutter do you have?

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

Whit wrote:

Very nice Phil! What kind of laser cutter do you have?

Thanks, Whit and Erco! The laser is an Epilog Zing16:

https://www.epiloglaser.com/products/zing-laser-series.htm

-Phil

W9GFO

Good idea!