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Some setbacks and goals

A project log for Building the Thor robot

Building a 6-axis robot based on the Thor robot. When size DOES matter!

olaf-baeyensOlaf Baeyens 12/21/2016 at 21:140 Comments

Some setbacks no functional Thor robot this year.

My big ball bearing 16014zz 70mm x 110mm x 13mm was canceled by Amazon as undeliverable.

Also my Pololu DRV8825 Driver Carrie did not arrive yet som I have nothing to test my stepper motors.


I have a week of holidays coming up so I ordered 3 Pololu DRV8825 Driver Carries from a different source that I know that will receive in my free time.

My holiday plan is to try to create the control software that will control the motors. And the primary focus will be a reliable 7 motors movement at the same time. I want a fast and fluid moving robots!

Next stage, built restrictions in the software that takes into account acceleration, stepper and speed limits. The last thing you want is a self destructing Ninja robot. Or a robot that kills the payload due to acceleration.

Final stage would be make that code flexible enough to be used by controllers.

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