Saturday, November 13, 2021

Today's contraption

The astute reader can probably figure out what this is and what it's a test setup for:




Oh how I missed you, MITERS Hardinge




6 comments:

  1. Balancing mechanism for the variable pitch lead screw pogo-stick robot? :D

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  2. Hah, yup, RWs :) Interesting housing... looks like it was sintered? Metal or some kind of impregnated epoxy?

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    1. It's nylon. We have an HP MJF printer at work we can use for personal projects. It's awesome

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  3. Do those controllers have electrolytic bulk capacitors on the back sides of the boards or are you using that 2x4 array of ceramics?

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    1. No electrolytics, just ceramics. Depends on your battery + wiring impedance, but for most circumstances I haven't found electrolytics to be helpful.

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