Nearing the "end" of my 2 dof build, a 3D printer has been essential!

Just about done...

Thanks all! It's mostly down to finishing the wiring and fitting the last few bits. Checked center on the Hall sensors and comms with the computer today. Just got to finish up the other two coils and connection to the motors and I'll be able to power it all up for real. Getting close to motion!

looks great.

Where did you get that powerbank from?

@djkc - The outlet strip is from Amazon: http://a.co/fcRAoxD. It's a rack mount 8 outlet strip with surge suppression. Probably just MOVs but I was after the mounting, color, and form factor.

Very nice layout! congrats!

what are the coils you're talking about?

Hey Matt, the coils are/go in those round housings and are chokes to cut the back EMF and slam from the motors due to the PWM. I don't know yet, and hopefully never find out, but they may be even more important to have in circuit to keep the differential amps in the bar graph interface circuits from getting killed from overvoltages. I've got the bar graph circuits between the coils and the motor controllers with the wiring between the coils and the motors the dirty voltage no-man's land. I decided to add the coils a long time ago since I'm using the JRKs and planning to push them pretty hard. @Avenga76 did a really good writeup of why they are good to have depending on the controllers you are suing. I guess the Sabertooth controllers don't need them, but depending on how hard you push other controllers - like the JRKs and MMs - they can be helpful. Avenga uses chokes in his wind generators to protect the MMs.

@RandomCoder - what part of that post do you disagree with or is it all of it? Curious why you disagree.

https://www.xsimulator.net/communit...rmoto-and-arduinouno.6876/page-18#post-134569

@Zed
Fantastic work Zed. I love the symmetry

Thanks, Six! Watching your and Hoddem's builds closely to see what you guys come up with. I've been mulling a sixer for a long time but just don't have the room. Living vicariously through you guys.

I'm sorry @Zed I don't disagree at all. I browse the forum using my tablet most of the time, occasionally I catch the wrong icon and normally I notice it and correct my mistake. I was meant to have selected 'agree'.
I have now corrected my error.
Sorry once again

No apologies necessary even if it had been real. I was just curious. I'm also here a lot on a tablet and mistakes are made frequently.

Extremely nice layout. I hope I'll be able to design something that good one day.
Keep on the good work.

Hey @Pierre Lalancette - Thanks! Powered up the controllers last weekend, wired up the bar graph ammeters this week, and am hoping for motion this weekend. My wire loom tubing and Velcro ties arrived yesterday so can get this finished and actually use it. The build has been a blast, learned a lot, have just a few things to see if they actually work the way I hope, but the payoff will be the flying and driving.

Then the idle hands thing starts again as I watch yours, Hoddem's, and the other amazing 6 dof builds come alive...

Cheers!

WOW.... Just WOW, I have been so busy working on my stuff that I haven't been keeping up with other builds. It looks so clean, I am really liking the black extrusion and the red parts. Can't wait to see it up and moving.

Congrats its going to be great when it' done

Thanks, Hoddem! I know I'm overboard on the detail, but even the build has been a heck of a lot of fun. It's a sickness and I see that same attention in your build. It's beautiful, btw. I'm also digging Six's orange prints. Another excellent color for this stuff!

I need to go back to work. It's been a chores morning on my day off but they are all now done.

Zed-Thesaurus-"perfectionist"

makes mine look poop ! lol great job
i love the winters as i come out the wood work again and feel great again.
good job zed

very beautiful the organization of the components, clean, meticulous, you see the professionalism in the realization. I'm curious to see moving videos still compliments.

Thanks all, but @Archie nailed it when he said these are never done. But in my defense, I have needed to keep working on it to fix up shortcomings and make things work as they should. Will post a full build log soon.

But some minor updates. I only mounted my motors using the bottom two mounting holes and was getting a little flex especially when things get violent. I added a plate and spacer on the outside to really stiffen up the mounting and keep the original mounting from fatiguing the frame strut. And since this is the 3D printing section, I’ll own up to going over the top with a printed plate that snaps into the spare mounting holes but covers the sharp corners with rounded plastic ones to protect shins. But I also experimented with doing inlay provide some contrast. The Vive logos were just recesses in that shap where I then extruded the shape to slightly thinner than the recess and printed them separately. A little work with a knife to trim to fit into the recesses and some gap-filling CA to glue them in place. Also made little friction fit press-on acorns to cover the lock nuts.



No 3D printing on my part but I finally mounted @Avenga76's wind generator on some spare strut on the lower frame to allow shortening up the hoses. Since it mounts to the lower frame, the only weight on the moving part are the flow straighteners.



Hid the driver side of the wind generator mounting plate with some black HDPE slid into the strut groove. Last photo shows there is plenty of clearance.



Now I’ve just got to get the flight stick and pedals set up to finish it all off. Or sort of finish it off. Archie is right...