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The Stepper Motor is Now Secured

A project log for CNC Plotter From Robot Chess Game

A broken robotic chess game is easily turned into a CNC plotter. Can be cheap, depend on what you have.

rocketburnsRocketburns 09/13/2015 at 23:540 Comments

One of the stepper brackets (for lack of a better name) finished printing, so I went ahead and installed it.

Here it is from another angle:

And this angle shows how little it interferes with the belts:

This addition completely removes any play from the stepper motor, before this it tended to wobble around due to it only being held on by one point. There is room for improvement in the model, however, because while it functions nicely it is a little bulkier than it needs to be, and could definitely be streamlined. I may print a standoff to cover the exposed screw on the other side, mainly just for aesthetic purposes.

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