Sunday, June 26, 2022

First outdoor tests of the screw mechanism!

 Gremlins eradicated - USB hubs are  bad, don't use them:



"Only" ~3.3 meters in this test - not maxing out the motor/mechanism yet, there's still some motor control tuning to do.  And probably another round of transmission ratio optimization once the actual robot mass and inertia get finalized.

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Finished Test Fixture




A robot-weight steel puck:

Test setup outside, before being beset by electrical gremlins: