I took the 3D printer home again this weekend and printed the 6th chassis prototype, with the extra room for the SSD underneath the NUC, instead of on the top of the robot. There were some minor design changes that were necessary to accommodate the SSD underneath the NUC.  The entire robot is about 5mm...Read More

3/3/2017 – 21:21  Sit Rep: I started printing the robot chassis with no raft about ~1/2 hour ago.  It looked good for the first 10 minutes and then the printer head obviously hit one of those sensors on the side of the chassis.  This screwed up the printer head alignment and caused the printer to “think”...Read More

Today I began redesigning the chassis for the new robot.  After discussing with Mr Elias, I had a few changes to the original design – the servos would be rotated 180 degrees to make enough room for the NUC, battery and voltage/current regulator. The servos were rotated along an axis that intersected the centre of...Read More

Powering the Robot The new Lithium Polymer batteries that we bought arrived a few days ago, so I started thinking about how we would power the NUC for any extended period of time. After some quick research on the internet, I found that at absolute worst case scenario the NUC draws around 2.5 amps.  We were...Read More

The issue I’ve been having is that all the previous rendering software that I’ve tried is that they all are, quite frankly, rubbish unless you pay or subscribe – and if you do not you end up with some ridiculous limitations such as a nonsensical 10 day trial or resolution caps.  Today I experimented with...Read More