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Seeing Eyeduino - Blog #2 "Robot Chassis and more"

dwinhold
dwinhold
12 Jul 2018

Seeing Eyeduino – Blog#2 “The chassis and more”

 

So according to the courier the kit should be arriving tomorrow, looking forward to that!!

 

This week’s update is the robot chassis.  Right now it is about 90% complete. I used 13mm (½”) plywood, brackets and springs for construction. I am pretty lucky to work in the cabinet industry and have access to the material and an awesome CNC machine. My boss, Randy, is great and is letting me have the use of the shop for this project as well as any material I require.

 

Pictures of the chassis and the building plans:

 

Plan:

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Some of the pieces cut:

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Assembled:

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The programming of the robot and braille machine has started. I haven’t gone too far with the programming as of yet, just enough for testing my ideas.

 

 

I have also been working on the braille machine. My design has changed as the electromagnet idea won’t work. I found that the electromagnets interfere with each other due to how close together they are. I have switched to servos to activate the pins. I have made a single pin mock-up which works well, now I have to create a 6 pin design.

 

Pictures of the updated plan:

 

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I hope you liked the update, any questions, comments or suggestions are always welcome

 

Dale Winhold

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  • genebren
    genebren over 7 years ago +4
    Nice update on your design challenge project. To bad that the electromagnet idea did not work out for you. Did you try any shielding between the electromagnets? It is a shame, as this would have given…
  • prashanth.nagendrappa
    prashanth.nagendrappa over 7 years ago +3
    Oh, chassis ready waiting for the Robot... Good Luck dwinhold
  • jw0752
    jw0752 over 7 years ago +2
    Hi Dale, Great update and progress. I look forward to seeing it all come together. John
  • dixonselvan
    dixonselvan over 7 years ago

    Nice build dwinhold

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    jw0752 over 7 years ago

    Hi Dale,

    Great update and progress. I look forward to seeing it all come together.

    John

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  • prashanth.nagendrappa
    prashanth.nagendrappa over 7 years ago

    Oh, chassis ready waiting for the Robot...

    Good Luck dwinhold

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    genebren over 7 years ago

    Nice update on your design challenge project.  To bad that the electromagnet idea did not work out for you.  Did you try any shielding between the electromagnets?  It is a shame, as this would have given you a much higher density.

    Keep up the good work!

    Gene

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