Parts acquired, now to build...
I have already printed the covers and have started on the electrical cabinet. All of my screws and smaller "stuff" is located in the Akro-Mils Bins and wringing and larger "stuffs" is in the clear bucket.
Discussion
hello AR people, My name is corey i started in on my ar3 over our christams shut down. i have some education in electronics and automation, I am a manufacturing engineer (fancy machinist) during the day. my specitalty is mill-turn centers and swiss style lathes up to 8 axis, although i do program and setup a 5 axis mill that the milling department hates. Progress: -Most of my hardware is in -Motors are in -My aluminum kit arives monday, i plan on tumbling them down to a matte finish and sending them out for annodizing. i realized after printing a few components and reworking them i was going to end up time and money ahead going the aluminum route. - Covers are about half way printed, i was using the covers as a test on the makerbot i had at work that was non functional, after firmware and a few mdifications it is actually making some nice prints. now most of the prints will be feinshed out on my ender 3 pro -Electronics- boards are in but i plan on using a larger enclosure, and integrating the cell controler, so i dont need a stand alone pc. Also i plan on using zip-port connectors rather than the aviation connectors so i will end up with 1 maybe 2 connectors on the robot. Also i havee been very impresesed with some of the main board concepts i have seen in the forums and may go that route but plan on conventional wiring to get going. I am building this robot as an introduction into robot kinematics and a study in process automation, my first planned implementation is to automate a chamfering operation that involves chamfering a rectangular block on all 12 edges. long term goals include using robots as machine tenders to pull parts from mills and lathes, also i have identified some assembly processes that could be automated.
I may send the aluminum pieces out for bead blast and black anodizing, not sure yet.
My 5v power supply did not have mounting holes like Chris's, so I 3d printed a bracket which mount to the two holes in the bottom of the supply.
I also had a difficult time marking the larger power supply mounting holes using the paper method, so I 3d printed a drill guide which worked great. I don't have a picture of it, but here is a render. The bottom ledge rests on the grid board, and the cutout on the lower right side is so that it can reference the side wall of the cabinet without hitting the inside radius.