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(Optional) Making a Lawn Trimmer Attachment

A project log for SNOWBYTE

Open-Source RC Snowplow that can remove snow from your driveway or sidewalks and can be customized for other tasks around your home.

cele9999cele9999 09/04/2023 at 01:550 Comments

As mentioned before in the instructions, the SnowByte can be customized to have other attachments like a lawn trimmer. I want an easy and quick solution to simply be able to switch attachments on my SnowByte. Since a friend gave me an electric lawn trimmer, I decided to extract the motor with its housing and use it to make it into an inter-changeable attachment for the SnowByte. Using a handy table saw I was able to cut the housing apart and I will 3D-Print a lawn trimmer holder arm.

After this I need to modify the circuit of the trimmer motor to control it with another 5v relay module and the Arduino like the linear actuator motor. Now the real decision is whether or not I should use the battery that came with the trimmer?

This will give me more uses for my RC SnowByte thru the year when there is no snow. I will attempt to use the power supply to feed the trimmer motor also, but if it turns out to consume too much power I will have to use the battery. Stay tune for the next update, to find out if 15A will be enough to power everything in the SnowByte plus the lawn trimmer.

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