Yes! Another Wally printing! There's hope for ours yet :-)by smooshed - Polar Machines, SCARA, Robot Arms
Since our Wally backboard is made of aluminum, I thought it might be interesting to machine v-slots into it, along the lines of this V-Slot Extrusion. The backboard itself becomes the guide. I was thinking that even just a four roller carriage might work with a cantilevered bed, two on top in the back and two in front on the bottom. The bed could be tilted up and toward the back, but does that mby smooshed - Polar Machines, SCARA, Robot Arms
Almost tempted to buy one of these and hack a stepper motor onto it Laboratory Scissors Jack But, I think we'll see if we can beat the exisitng design into submission first.by smooshed - Polar Machines, SCARA, Robot Arms
This is what you get when you challenge a "belief system", not amenable to facts, reason, logic, etc. Used to be the Japanese, easy to blame the "foreign devil" for problems. This is probably not the best place to be debating this stuff, either.by smooshed - General
Since I don't have Inventor on my workstation at the moment, I've been using Inventor View (free, but windows only) to get a handle on how Wally goes together. Quotecozmicray Is there an assembly drawing out there for Wally? or How to make one? Left, right, top, front line drawing?by smooshed - Polar Machines, SCARA, Robot Arms
Nice parts, and nice photos, too! Thanksby smooshed - Polar Machines, SCARA, Robot Arms
Well, I'm working on Battleship Wally (so named because it''s going to be on an aluminum frame). Not much to see yet, but as progress is made I'll start a build thread so folks can see that there is some activity :-) Quotecozmicray How many out there working on Wally's? tnxby smooshed - Polar Machines, SCARA, Robot Arms
Whoo Hoo! Out of curiosity, what printer are you using, and what filament? Quotesgraber FWIW, I just printed an arm with WALLY on it and had no problems with it adhering well to the build platform. Printed in 1 hr 45 min. 3 perimeters, 15% infill, 0.3mm layer height, 65C bed temp for first layer, dropped to 60C after that, hotend at 205-210C, used hairspray on the heated bed. I'm getting cloby smooshed - Polar Machines, SCARA, Robot Arms
Yes, thank you, your offer was too good to pass up. I'm wondering, though, if you might not have completely realized what you were getting into :-) We're going to go ahead and make a back board, sides and bottom out of half inch aluminum plate. Battleship Wally :-) sgraber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > IMO after printing almost a complete Wally set >by smooshed - Polar Machines, SCARA, Robot Arms
Nicholas - Since you were kind enough to do your modeling in Inventor (we have a few seats) I went ahead and forked your repository and cloned a copy here at work. We had a ball playing with the Wally model at lunch time today, and are seriously considering building one. One question came up about the backboard, there are some grooves on the back, is there a purpose for them or are they a desigby smooshed - Polar Machines, SCARA, Robot Arms