After exams had concluded, I started working on modifying the current robot design to accommodate the concepts that Jack and Aaron came up with a few weeks ago. The modifications were: Shrink both sides of the robot chassis which reduced the overall length. The length went from 251 to 226mm – the minimum amount of...Read More
Today was the day where I got my hands on to the Ninja Flex that we bought a few weeks ago. As soon as I got it I put it on the Ultimaker and printed the test file Matthew had made for me a little while ago. The only print settings I had to change...Read More
Last Thursday, Aaron, Ryan and I went to Jaycar to purchase some supplies, including heat shrink, switches, DC plugs, XT60 connectors and solder – all important parts in our new power delivery system! After some testing over the next couple of days, we put together these two circuits. The XT60 connects to a LiPo battery and...Read More
While talking to Mr. Crane, he asked how we are going to do the belt on the wheels. I said we could buy a belt and cut it to size and connect the ends – but this is the S.A.R.T, and that would be too easy. While buying more ABS for the Ultimaker, I thought...Read More
After our redesign brainwave, Aaron and I immediately set about modifying our current prototype. Once we have everything in the robot, we can decide just how much length to shave off. Our current estimate is at least 2cm. The first step was to rip out the 3D printed standoffs. Once the NUC has been rotated,...Read More
Aaron and I had a long discussion about the robot design this morning, and we conceptualised a new orientation for the Intel NUC to allow room for the batteries and voltage regulator while still making the robot overall a bit smaller. The current robot may be slightly too long, and half of the I/O is...Read More
A few days ago Mr. Elias and I were having a chat about powering the NUC. He said that we should start looking at how much usable time we can get out of it while running on battery, so I went to JayCar and got two 2.5mm DC power plugs to connect to our voltage dropper....Read More
After printing some wheels in PLA I thought we could speed this up if I got the Ultimaker and started printing them on that as well. As I’m using the Ultimaker I’m using ABS to print the wheels, not only is it better quality it is also a stronger plastic so with that in mind we are...Read More
Ever since I created the S.A.R.T interface, there’s been one thing that bugs us constantly, and that’s having to refresh the page to load the stream every time we restart it. Refreshing the whole page has other unwanted effects, such as closing the SSH connection, meaning you have to log back in if you were...Read More
The final pieces of the control-panel-puzzle are in place, with the arrival of our new UPS and monitor. Over the past few days, we have assembled the control panel and even started testing it too. Aaron and I first prepared the case by giving it a good clean – over the past few weeks a...Read More
