I made a gearbox with about 29:1 ratio that drives the spine shaft of the robot. It contains two 58:11 teeth gear sets reducing the RPM and increasing the torque. The gearbox has 3 3D printed axles supported by 6 ABEC-7 608zz bearings. ...
Thursday, 06/07/2023, 12:40.(I wrote this project log before copy-pasting it here) Anyway, back to DIY electric motors: I can't simply use two 10:1 reduction ratios (which would give 100:1 in total) simply because if I want to reach 30 rpm with...
It happens that I wrote so much on the first Project Log 74: Tech Tree for Mechs¹. that the hackaday Website started deleting older text. :| I contacted the Hackaday email asking if it was possible to check older edits so I can...
This week on The Hacklet we're featuring some of the best keyboard hacks from Hackaday.io!Hackers are really into their keyboards. Everyone has a favorite, and those favorites vary wildly. Mechanical, soft touch, ergonomic, QWERTY, DVORAK, chorded, you...
If you can’t tell, we’re on a roll with 3D printers and printed projects this month. So far, we’ve covered printers, andsimple functional 3D prints. This week we’re taking a look at some of the awesome complex 3D printed projects on Hackaday.io.Complex...
After four months of continual silence from life getting ahead of me, I have had a chance to sit down and truly figure out what the platform will be based on (who got knocked out by me being in the quarter finals even though I resigned?). I had my original...
Firstly, the name isn't finalized. Any ideas? "NeuroBeast" is a bit lame IMHO. Secondly, a clip of the latest iteration dragging a battery pack across the demo rug:[Ingredients: Seventeen NeuroBytes v0.8 boards. Eight 9g servos. Eight 3D printed feet....
Sorry it took so long to update. I took these pictures long ago, but never got around to uploading them.Marking the center of a stack of paperCutting down said center lineMarking where the holes should goLine up one side and clamp the uneven sideDrill...
After moving things around and building test circuits for just about forever, I think I've finally got a layout I can live with.I suppose I should put the binary files on GitHub or something.In the mean time, here's the schematic and layout for one flipflop.The...
Here's a photo of the "spine" with air wires. This took me about 30 minutes to solder.it seems fairly sturdy when I bend around on it, so I think it'll hold up.Next is to make the two outer three-component groups, attach them to the spine, and then........
My goal for this project was to improve the exposure of PocketQube femto-satellites. These are 50mm x 50mm x 50mm satellites that have been very popular in the news for their extremely low cost to orbit. I want to add to the open source QubeCast Max...
Long before Marvel Comic's Iron Man movie series came out, and before Iron Man's technological concepts in the comic pages even got a veneer of plausibility, long before anime became mainstream, I watched a lot of Mecha Anime, from Robotech to Appleseed....
I haven't been on site as often as I've been intensively getting a startup up and running, which happens to be a combination app/hardware startup. That said, I'm still messing around with the biosuit sensor device. Several things I want to add this time...
I finished this months ago, and it works, but I did the binding poorly, and so the book doesn't work very well. I don't have the materials to redo this particular book, so it's going to be left in its present (working poorly) state.The mistake I made...
After making the bottle-shaped iteration, I realized that it was possibly the ugliest sculpture on the planet. I decided that the more human-looking iteration was a much better direction, and I began to expand upon that one. The human looking iteration...