James' R5-D4

  Just some more components, I made for Mike B. Aluminium hex bar, drilled both ends and tapped with an M6 thread. Enough so that if it need...

  On this day going back to 2013........ R5-D4's dome build progress, link to original Blog post here .

Paul is building a second R2 and had a semi finished pair of shoulder hubs. They were correct O/D, thickness and had four holes in, but were...

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 😢...

Over on the R2 Discord chat, OpenR2 member raised the question about R5’s eye sensor not being like the ‘club spec standard’ design but act...

😄😄😄 lol, yes…..aaaaaand no. Back in April (last month)…. R5’s ride height has always been an annoyance for me over the years. Most notice...

 A busy week of building, buying, designing etc…. 1: R5’s second new foot motor bracket frame, needed completing: just needs some finishing ...

  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,...

Final 3D printed parts fitted and everything works as it should. Really pleased with how it runs. Now it’s onto the electrical side of the p...

 Fine tuning the design of the lower servo holder & the servo/tube connector. The new normal sized servo's holes were NOT the same a...

 Design, 3D print, test fit.....& repeat lol. All the bits fit so far, but I need to fit a second guide rail. I ordered another aluminiu...

Thursday in work, I finished off the coin slots. Drilled holes in the pre-marked backing plate. Then positioned the centre lines on the back...

Got in work at 7am today. As wanted to crack on with milling the rest of the angles and the coin slots. Managed to break one slot milling c...

Has been a productive Easter Weekend. Friday, I cut a strip of aluminium plate, to mount the coin slots onto. Also cut lower support s...

Managed to start machining up the coin slots at lunchtime. Cleaned up all the rough faces and put on the first side angles. Machined, par...

Cut the rest of the 'coin slot' blanks out, just need to machine them up. Cut two lower side supports for the side flat parts of...

On my lunchtime today I started working on a coin slot. These I'll attempt to make individually and attach them to a back plate.

Started machining up the rear dome rod, or I will do once I can find some more material that's not three times the diameter I need!!

Just finished machining up the second Side Dome Rod. The straight knurl looks better than on my first attempt, but well just say that's ...

There will be two of these. Due to material available, I had to make it in two parts. This actually made making it easier. Side Dome Rod ...