Bruce
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- earthwormjim
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- earthwormjim
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At AWS33 I saw a few people using the throttle cut switch to operate flipper servos,on dx6i Tx's.Which I thought was a great idea,although the location of the button,(over the RHS stick),wasnt ideal.So I have run some cable from the switch terminals inside the case,over to the side of the LHS stick,and mounted a push button on a small piece of carbon...
It seems to work very well,and is comfortable to use.
It seems to work very well,and is comfortable to use.
- earthwormjim
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I thought I would make a chassis for bruce out of some 1mm carbon I got to play around with. I have made cut outs for the flipper servo shaft,the drive servos,and the battery.I put masking tape over the shiny surface of the carbon,as its easier to mark out,and will hopefully protect the nice shiny surface!
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I have decided that 1mm carbon is too brittle to make such small pieces with.(In other words,my fingers are too fat!:D )The layers separate under stress.Probably something to do with using a wood blade in the Jigsaw to cut it with!!
Anyway,I have decided to build using the 1.5mm glass fibre board that Peter gave me,and this is going to be a new flea,to partner "Bruce".Code name...
"The blue ringed Octopus"
Looking at Bruce,all the chassis parts are intact,they all only broke at the glue points,so in theory,I should be able to clean her up,and reassemble!
Anyway,I have decided to build using the 1.5mm glass fibre board that Peter gave me,and this is going to be a new flea,to partner "Bruce".Code name...
"The blue ringed Octopus"
Looking at Bruce,all the chassis parts are intact,they all only broke at the glue points,so in theory,I should be able to clean her up,and reassemble!
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I find it rather odd that 'Bruce' is referred to with feminine pronouns a bit Blackadder in nature perhaps...
Do you have the weight for a mechanical connection between all the chassis/armour parts, or is it right on the weight limit?
Do you have the weight for a mechanical connection between all the chassis/armour parts, or is it right on the weight limit?
Joey McConnell-Farber - Team Picus Telerobotics - http://picus.org.uk/ - @joey_picus
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- earthwormjim
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Very nice of you to say so! But it is a little rough around the edges,if you look close enough,as it is mainly done using files and some wet and dry sandpaper!alasdair wrote:Wow! precision engineering or what?!
I think that drilling a tiny hole in the chassis pieces,then sewing some thin wire through the holes to tie the pieces together,then epoxying the lot together might be the way foreward.I used to use that method to get the curve to hold when building model boat hulls!
Worth a try,anyway!
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I got the new servos for bruce,not bad for 4.99 each!!
from here...
http://www.galaxymodels.co.uk/detail.as ... 9&rootid=2
This is what they look like...
I thought I would explain how the mod was done.I think it is pretty painless,and the result is a tiny and fast drive motor.
The mod to the servo couldnt be easier,no messing around with pots!
I removed the two final gears,which also removes the part that turns the pot,and also speeds up the output loads.
Here is the modded servo.The removed gears are in the foreground...
Then you just epoxy a lego axle onto the final gear...
This is a final modded servo...
Just a spare nut,added to the other shaft to take up the space taken by the other removed gear
The result is not very powerful,but pretty fast for such a small unit.
from here...
http://www.galaxymodels.co.uk/detail.as ... 9&rootid=2
This is what they look like...
I thought I would explain how the mod was done.I think it is pretty painless,and the result is a tiny and fast drive motor.
The mod to the servo couldnt be easier,no messing around with pots!
I removed the two final gears,which also removes the part that turns the pot,and also speeds up the output loads.
Here is the modded servo.The removed gears are in the foreground...
Then you just epoxy a lego axle onto the final gear...
This is a final modded servo...
Just a spare nut,added to the other shaft to take up the space taken by the other removed gear
The result is not very powerful,but pretty fast for such a small unit.