A Little Of This And A Little Of That

Today I went to the makerspace without much of a plan. I knew I wanted to start at least one 3d-print but that was about it.

So I started with printing the rest of the garbage bag holder for the car.

OK. That picture wasn’t great. But it shows that the bed stickyness isn’t perfect everywhere. I will have to ask what to do about that so I can update the documentation.

Since that started without a hitch, I made some updates to the sidewalls of the RHex and printed the remaining pieces needed to build the full robot.

Also here there was some local adhesion problems, but only one part was seriously affected and I think it will work anyways.

Then I cut down the motherboard to size so I can fit it in the robot (Sorry, no picture) and helped out with debugging the distance sensor for the chip evacuator (The signal we wanted was broken, so we could only get the reverse signal which wasn’t very useful). Some additional cleanup of the makerspace including emptying the chip evacuator and then I decided to make a second leg axel.

Unfortunately something wierd happened there. The lathe for some reason started vibrating. It would have worked to make the piece, but inspired by the recent machining adventures of Adam Savage, I decided to try to make the piece with proper finish and proper tolerances. And that was clearly not going to happen today.

Just in case, I purchased a new cutting edge and tried again. The cutter was for aluminum rather than brass, so I also tried to use aluminum. Unfortunately, I got the same result there.

So with that, it was time to go back home. Until next week!