Spinning things!

January 15, 2022 Machining Robots

It spins! A good end to the most productive week I've had in quite a while (on personal projects, at least):

More spinning things: turning the 3mm cam followers:

Tiny cam follower shafts done. Thumb for scale:

Assembled cam follower "spindles" with a bearings:

Real blog post with more explanation coming soon-ish.

Comments

Anonymous — January 16, 2022 at 8:27 PM

So cool. Looking forward to the blog!

Anonymous — January 23, 2022 at 2:39 PM

It looks awesome! Are you going to use one of those T-Motor Ri-Series motors or something custom? It looks a lot like an RI50 by the rotor. Keep up the great work.

Ben Katz — January 23, 2022 at 6:22 PM

Well spotted! Yeah, an RI50 wound (by t-motor) for a custom torque constant.