James' R5-D4

Original post - July 2024 : It’s been a few years now since I last worked on the lift setup. So decided I needed to get back on it again. Th...

3D Printing: March I needed another way to operate the claw. The bowden tube idea using a metal guitar string, wasn’t working well enough 😢...

June 2022 Back in June, whilst I had R5’s bad motivator setup out of R5’s dome, I thought I’d refresh my memory of where I was with R4’s Lif...

Back in..... May 7th 2021 ..... Dug out the laptop and got playing with the Pololu servo controller program...... then had a refresh look at...

A while back I posted up that I had designed a clip moun t remote control fob holder  for R5’s ‘Bad Motivator’. The idea being that it could...

Re-wire switches: The two switches that I had, just inside the opening of the dome, needed to be relocated to just clean up everything. Thes...

 I didn’t want to glue the two rods in place as this may of effected the sliding of the servo bracket by misalignment. But I needed somethin...

Designed up a cover for the servo. First version had more details on it than would of been actually seen & one dimension was miss calcul...

  Sooooo...... :D yes, I think this is THE final incarnation of this 'little' project lol. I suppose this version was inevitable as ...

So did the redesigns, and printed them off and all worked great. But, after installing everything, there were a few teething problems with t...

Have been working these last few weeks on redesign’s for the lift setup and also on another project.... After a chat with a few builder frie...

January 24th 2021 Found a ‘box’ on Thingiverse for the Pololu control board. So that got printed, and it’s  a perfect fit! Next up was somet...

Needed something to attach the electronics & electrical to inside the dome. As the lid comes off I thought I could combine a panel with ...

  Installed the LFS into the dome. Two counter bored holes were drilled to allow the two countersunk head bolts to sit down inside the edge,...

 So this evening I've been updating: the upper servo bracket the lower servo bracket the lower micro switch 'stop' The upper ser...

 Yesterday I drew up a support bracket that the Life-form scanner [LFS] unit would attach to. I printed of a test version to check it would ...