Redesigned pinions to work for 180 degree servos, thus causing a redesing in the carriage. It got larger and all spaceing between servos were adjusted. I finished the CAD of the carriage.
I got my 3D printer working, made adjustments to the rack design, and got the first nice print of a rack. I am now starting to print the pinions, and then hopefully Sunday, the carriage.
I redid purchasing, as some of our Amazon purchases got lost due to the AWS crash event.
I am now designing the Z axis gantry system and gearbox, hopefully full CAD done by Monday.
Here is the progress so far on the full assembly CAD, I included a before, so the progress can be shown, the first design (which is actually a second design) is all over the place and unfinished, more of a proof of concept, and the finalized design is the one that is more clean, with belt and stuff to proportion. It still has a couple more tweaks but will hopefully be done this Monday (11/3).
Pin Board is also a work in progress, especially designing its mounting system
A few design questions moving forward:
– Is one set of bars enough to support the carriage ?
– Is one pin board enough to support the pins?
– Where can reset mechanism go?
(after, V3)
(before, V2)
