Solarbotics gearmotor/rotary encoder delivers...

I finally got the solarbotics gearmotor/rotary encoder ensemble firmware that drives the axes on Tommelise 1.0 running where it delivers < 0.1 mm slewing errors for long sequences of short line segments.


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Well done, have you got plans for the gears?

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nophead Wrote:
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> Well done, have you got plans for the gears?

Yup. I wrote code to generate the perimeters in VB.NET 2005 prior writing the script to do the same thing for AoI in JavaBeans. I've rewritten that and am going directly from VB.NET to input for the Slice and Dice software. Right now, I'm going to just see if I can print the perimeter. After that I will generate infill for the gears.

Perhaps you be the first to print an FDM clock

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LOL! Gearboxes to get some better rotational rates than I can with bought gearmotors is more what I have in mind. :-P

Acutally, I have been thinking a lot about the kinds of mechanical constructs that we will be able to build via FDM- especially interesting is the material from the book _507 Mechanical Movements_ (see [historical.library.cornell.edu] for a free online version, in PDF) which has a whole range of interesting gear trains, etc., much of which we should be able to reproduce in the object library. I imagine having something like this available so that designers can easily "plug in" solutions to design problems based on proven RepRap-able objects.