I’m more of a Titanfall fan. So it’s the Spectre for me.
I also like the design of the feet a lot more. The Super Battle Droid looks like it’s wearing a pair of shoes.
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Could be a 3D, or wearable post
I’m still kicking around the idea of some kind of modern take on the power glove gauntlet
Thinking of adding a m.2 ssd usb c flash drive ish enclosure to the napkin concept
Main issue I keep coming back to that I can’t quite decide how I want to tackle, is how to keep it from sliding down your forearm… if your arm tapers down towards your wrist… and you shape it to fit your arm… not much to keep it from sliding that direction besides just over tightening it… hoping to go for a more comfortable concept
I was thinking of 3D printing a sort of hex mesh out of something like tpu in the rough shape with specific portions sized to hold components, and only clamshelling it closed a bit…
Perhaps the open hex’s (breathability and weight reduction) could allow for some texture friction?
Thoughts? Just sort of brainstorming out loud
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Skip to 9:25, they use inflatable cuffs. Also shows a couple of clips from other projects that did the same thing. May want to dig up those vids too.
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So I finally got around to my Compaq Portable. It had a power supply failure when I powered it up last year and had been sitting ever since. One of the tantalums failed short and blew up as they are known to do.
Before
After
And partially put back together. All the electrolytics have been replaced on all the boards including the analog board for the CRT. Its looking sharp and bright now.
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Right, that’s the general idea I’m going for… except I don’t want to loose what little wrist movement I have, was going to stop short of the wrist, and only do it as a gauntlet
Those designs use a bit of the hand and wrist to help lock it in
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A few ideas for inspiration:
A series of 4 auto-tighening watch-band-like straps, controlled in such a way that only two are ever tight. It alternates between sets automatically, reducing fatigue.
The internal structure could just have a bunch of spikes. Self explanatory
The gauntlet clamps around.your arm, and has a series of small wheels that spin such that the gauntlet is constantly try to climb up your arm.
Seriously though, I’d love to see this. I was just thinking about how cool it would be to have something like this a week ago
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What about a non-Newtonian fluid pouch and some simple straps that were on old roller blades. Lever compression straps I think they were called. The fluid pouch should help keep that gauntlet secure when paired with the strap
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If that printer wasn’t as expensive, I’d buy it in a heartbeat! Or is it a clock cycle?
Hopefully it will a be a clock cycle one day…
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been having soem terrible prints lately and was chasing gremlins to figure out why with absolutely no progress…
Yesterday the Extruder stepper motor gave up the ghost. It was the craziest of issues too. it would work fine and then just stop, no reason, then it would start up again. many failed prints at like 30% through and spagetti factory after. New motor is now in and im back to business!
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Think it was the motor stopping, the teeth in the friction wheel dulling, or the motor shaft spinning in the wheel?
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I have had a few ender steppers die,
From what I could tell without testing it apart the bearing inside the stepper eventually went bad, and there would be spots that humps that would bind, at first it would only happen once in a while and eventually it would seize pretty regularly until there was almost a flat spot in the rotation
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Which printer do you have?
Do note that the plastic extruder on the Enders is terrible and tends to break under it’s own tension. And that Creality makes their own motors that have a higher inductance but require less current than standard steppers, so you have to mess with the vref of the driver if you get a motor from any other brand.
Creality motors loose a lot of torque as soon as you try to print fast, but that’s only a problem if you start modifying things.
I can recommend this mod for the Ender 3:
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Motor itselt would stop spinning. Tested it by taking it off of the extruder and running commands to run the extruder. It would run then stop then kind of run, then stop… rinse repeat and then it would die.
After changing it out and twisting it by hand i can confirm that is what i think occured as well as thats how it feels.
Ender 3 - Modded pretty hard.
Changed it out for a full metal extruder Day 1.
I was looking at the Hummingbird as well as the setup that Swiss makes for the direct drive extruder. I honestly think that the next thing that breaks ill likely just buy a Voron or a Bambu when i can afford it.
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I’m running the Hummingbird on my Ender because it’s the same extruder that’s used on a 3D printer project that I contributed to, and I loved it. So when I gave up on both the Creality metal extruder, and a BMG clone, I switched to a direct drive Hummingbird and never looked back…
Now that things are more stable on my end and I’m getting fed up with the Ender, I’m thinking about a Bambu, a Prusa, a Voron, or a RatRig.
Bambu is the easiest choice as a local store started carrying their products, but I’ve built printers before so I’m probably going to start building a Voron in a few months.
Still, a 3D printer is a big project that takes some time. So the Sovol SV08 might be a cheaper and easier alternative if the shipping cost doesn’t blow the budget.
Check the motor current and driver vref if you can.
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old one is already circular filed. New one is working brilliantly.
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*Confused beeping noises…
Sorry, It was thrown in the trash can quite sassily.
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You mean file 13?
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Circular file/file 13/86’d
It’s been disposed of
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