{"id":62,"date":"2016-09-10T16:56:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T16:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/?p=62"},"modified":"2016-09-10T16:56:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T16:56:16","slug":"project-ripl3y-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r.jander.me.uk\/index.php\/2016\/09\/10\/project-ripl3y-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Project “Ripl3y” – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’ve started work on my next project. I’ve had plans for this since around May, but haven’t had the opportunity to start on it until now – this will keep me occupied during the long Autumn\/Winter evenings \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I want to get a bit further with my build before I discuss what it will ultimately do, so for the moment it is codenamed “Ripl3y”. Here are a few pictures of what I have so far:<\/p>\n

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This gives me an X-Y mechanism for the core function of the project. It’s interesting using a mix of the stud-less and studded beams. It’s been quite a number of years (decades) since I’ve used studded beams, so I’d forgotten that they are essentially 1\/2 a beam out of alignment with the stud-less versions. Thankfully that’s not caused me any issues. The build will ultimately have another four long linear functions that use the rack pieces, so this has been a good learning exercise.<\/p>\n

Here’s a video of it initialising itself and going through a simple test routine to check that I’d got my degrees of rotation calculations correct:<\/p>\n