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Correction #1

A project log for XYZ Repeatable Platform

Cruising Along

cyplesmacyplesma 03/22/2016 at 01:570 Comments

While securing (aka screwing) the base plate to some 1 x 6 deck planks (i was going to use as a footing), I learned that the 1/2" osb board was bending to the warped deck planks. Well the first one anyway. I didn't even bother securing the plate to the second deck plank footing. So It's time to go fetch some 3/4" plywood to use as the base plate. I can only hope the wood suppliers are not reading this and are as we speak jacking up the price of 3/4" 2' x 2' or 4' x 2' planks of plywood.

I also spent some time with an ardunio uno and one of my steppers to see if I could quickly rig up a push button controller to manually move the step motors around a bit to test for movement of the axis', well at least what I am referring to the Z axis (to and from perspective as you face the platform). It way more problematic then I wanted it to be and still at the moment what I had wrong with my logic. But I was just trying to rig up a push button to cause the stepper to start turning in the direction another button would be used to control. The hardware all works, it's just whatever I thought was setting some variables wasn't (per some serial output debugging data) or I shouldn't be trying to use the pin values directly in the logic and I need to use some variables to reflect what the output pin values are.

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