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Zen Garden Gantry with Matthew Eargle -- Episode 344

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Matt Eargle pays a visit to Ben in Madison so that they can work together on a Zen robot garden using CNC parts.  The build will use a handheld controller, a stepper motor, and a 3D printed Zen garden rake that will draw designs.  A typical Zen garden rake is a flat piece usually made of wood with four large tines coming out of it. The one they print will hook up to the servo and use the mounting points on the servo to make an actuator for the rack and pinion vertical Z.  Felix and Karen help Matt program the code for the Arduino shield and board using the Arduino IDE.   

 

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  • in reply to beacon_dave

    The Sand Clock was really cool; I saw something similar a long time ago (maybe the same one?).

     

    We originally planned to do something similar to the Sisyphus table, with the a large magnet guiding a ferrous ball bearing from an X-Y gantry beneath the sand, but it wasn't really practical to do in the 2.5 days we had to work! We even had to adjust the plan and make the Y-axis roll independently of a frame due to time constraints! Maybe I'll revisit this one day.

     

    One day....

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