Just build it
New Zealand
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Hello everybody my name is Jesse Kissel. I live in New Zealand.
I have browsed some of the projects that have been posted and visited the forums, and I see that this community of builders and others are very encouraging and supportive, which I feel is a great place to be in for a newcomer like me.
My teacher @Tameion and I will be working on a project to make a robot arm for a fellow students' wheelchair.
Working in this forum will be part of my assessment evidence so I look forward to your interaction.
-Jesse
So this is early development of the idea.
I am going to make something to hold the servo motor in place.
I've been busy making some stuff and forgot to share the pictures with you all.
So I have added some parts extending forward as seen below.
I tried to put the motor in it, but it snapped one of the extended bits. So I went back to the computer and modified the model.
After remeasuring and reprinting, I test fit the motor only to find that the results were the same as before.This time I rotated it on its side and then printed, not forgetting to put a hole for the cord to go through. Sadly though, the back of it printed strangely and so couldn't be fitted into the wheelchair. confused Also, the angle that I tried to get the motor in snapped the extended bits yet again...
But I got it with the next printed one.
I made one of the extended parts have an angle on its inner part.Here is an image of a 'shoulder joint' I have printed. The base of it had risen, so the circular tube shape inside it had become oval, which I didn't want.
different angle..
Here I am showing how the motor would attach to the shoulder part.
This is what it will look like when its all connected. The thing holding the motor in that picture will be rotated differently. (This was an early print of the thing holding the motor, so I couldn't fit it properly)