James' R5-D4

  🎉 Welcome to 2023  🎉 Build updates : New servos Claw Arm & Carbon fibre rods 3D printed hose clips Mast update Ordered some filler ...

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...

October 1st Back at the beginning of the month, before I fitted the remote control, inside my transmitter, I had thought about utilising the...

March 2022 Planning out the electronics/electrical connections etc. This has been the most concentrated effort of work to get things ready f...

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...

  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...

  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 ...

 All the bonding on the magnets has set and it all looks good. I filmed the testing and have just uploaded a short video of the lid panel be...

 Right, on with the next re-re-design. This first test print was in two parts, but could be combined into one. I did it as two for best prin...