It’s been a while. Robot hands and 3d printers and lathes, oh my.
Counting backwards, this time!
weekly
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Monday:
Hot dusty dirty day of drilling holes in concrete. They always need to be a little deeper than you think. 6 holes for the lathe, 2 for the mill. Other than that, not much happened on Monday.
Tuesday:
Nerds came over, helped me finish up the tools, spent a lot of time helping me shop for lubrication. With the following result:
Very pleased! Robot axles ahoy! To Star Wars afterwards, with even more nerds. It still doesn’t suck.
Wednesday:
Shopping for bolts to bolt the mill down. Small bolt/hardware stores with $25 EFTPOS minimums are dangerous, it cost me $50 to make up that $25. Still:
Brass machines beautifully. Did I mention I bought a lathe?
Monday:
Rejigging the EMG sensors. Apparently, I had the signal wire going to the wrong pin of the final IC. Oh well. On the bright side, DirtyPCB are cheap and fast. So the new version should be here in, now, a week.