Modified Integza pneumatic motor

Experimenting with the Integza Wankel for semester 3 project at Bellingham Technical College:

^3D printed Fused Filament Fabrication(FFF) PETG^

• Modified the shaft to be longer and added a spline for energy transfer to a gear(bevel). Not sure how much torque transfer is capable of being delivered. Yet!
• Modified the lid with 3.25M bolt holes, a wider shaft hole to fit a 688z (8 x 16 x 5mm) bearing, and chamfered bearing shaft hole to clear the 688z's inner race from catching. WORKS!

5/12/22

• New 6802-RS bearing (15 x 24 x 5mm) required press-fitting. I might reduce the printed dimensions in the future. This solution is more rigid but has more friction than a 3D printed plain bearing.
• The rotor needs to be sanded, it is too tall by 0.1 mm-ish. WORKS!
• The pneumatic fittings are too big for the case and cracked the I/O ports. Remodeled with 9.75 mm ports, no threading added yet.
• 9.75 was too big(wasted time, plastic, electricity). Pictured below, left.
•  9.625 mm ID with .4 x 2mm chamfer works, tested on a subsection. Pictured below, upper right.
  
  
  
• The next test is adding threads. I imported the fitting model into fusion 360 from the McMaster catalog.6 mm OD, 3/8threads.

Bellingham MakerFaire Results

Gallery of Bellingham Makerfaire interactive booth results:

1st firing (bisque)

All of these were designed on the spot 10/9/21 by 1st-time users of my sculpting software built for the makerfaire the week before (see previous post).

Contact-free-throwing

Use your hands to make digital vases that will be 3d printed out of porcelain!

10/3/21

1.Fire up TOUCHDESIGNER 88.

2. My install of TD88 no longer works with my leap motion devices. I guess that is to be expected since I haven't tried to use these together in almost a DECADE...Thanks to this video the leap motion is running again.

3. Figure out what the heck to do next...

4. 10/4/21

Day2: Make it better! Added limits for over and underhangs. Find a way to save to .obj files. The geometry types had to be a certain kind for the points in OBJ files to work. OBJ saver found in the Touchdesigner forums with a simple search.

5. 10/6/21

Day3: Test slicing, it works! Simplify 3d can turn my monsters into art! Tested the UI on Mike and Deb today, it was okay, but Deb's laptop doesn't handle live SOP updates very well. Tested around 5 fps on the studio laptop.

Steps for tonight: add highlights to the layer being moved, maybe a color change. Build out the performance UI to include multiple views (X&Z) plus an overhead map of the hand vs geo.

6. 10/8/21 Added a user interface with front and side views, as well as measurements, and a save indicator.

Here is an exported obj file:

After years... this is a life changer.  I feel grateful and stupid. For anybody that has a second 4k monitor.

https://www.alphr.com/microsoft/microsoft-windows-10/1001272/how-to-set-display-scaling-in-windows-10/

 Testing the Arduino RP2040Connect.

UPDATE:

USB data revovery

So, every recovery software for windows 10 is either trialware or buried too far down the google search. Lets try linux, there is always free or opensource applications. Let's fire up an Ubuntu virtual machine guest on my win10 host. Problem: my guest can't access my USB device! After a few days of research, I have found somebody else's solution:

1. Safely unplug your USB devices from the host if any are plugged in.
   
2. Open VBox then close it again to release any USB devices that may still be captured in the VM.
   
3. Delete the UpperFilters entry, if it exists, in the host registry -
   
   
   • Open the Windows registry: Start (right-click in Win 10) > Run and type regedit.
   • Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000}.
   • Delete the UpperFilters entry if it exists.
   • Note: This entry did not exist on my system.
4. Manually re-install VBox USB drivers on the Windows host -
   
   
   • Open folder C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\drivers\USB.
   • Open subfolder device, right-click driver file VBoxUSB.inf, and click Install.
   • Open subfolder filter, right-click driver file VBoxUSBMon.inf, and click Install.
   • Reboot the Windows host system just to make sure the drivers are loaded.
5. Plug in your USB devices.
   
6. Open VBox and run the VM.
   
7. Click any devices in the VM's Devices > USB menu list, and they should mount OK. (Hovering the mouse over the USB icon on the VM's status bar in the lower right corner of the VM will show the USB devices attached.)

Genius. Here it is, as a reminder. Back onto the recovery. While selecting the drive to recover, I realize that I created a 25GB virtual disk, not nearly enough to hold the recovered files from a 128GB SD card. Going to have to share my TB storage drive with my virtual machine. sudo adduser $USER vboxsf. Log out/in. Trying PhotoRec... going to bed...

Pinky buildLog

 Pinky, the octopod AI robot.

Goals: Learn more engineering tricks: Mechanical, Electrical, Software. 

• Mechanical engineering; Gearing, Servos, Bearings, Nuts, and Bolts.
• Designed in Fusion 360, then export URDF for ROS.
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• Electrical engineering; Battery (Li-Po), Voltage Converter (5V, 10amp), Microcontroller (pi Pico), Microprocessor (pi Zero W), PWM control board (PCA9685)
• Software engineering; Windows with Ubuntu VirtualBox (lubuntu20.04), ROS noetic.

Progress videos:

JointControl:

Stand command:x)

In depth details:

1. knee/hip joints. Drive gear tooth count are: ankle=9t(2x), knee=12t(1.5x), hip=20t(0.9x)
2. 12ish Volt Li-Po -> voltage converter -> 5-6volts -parallel> 2 PCA9685s v++ terminals
3. Software
1. Set up Ubuntu VM
1. Enable shared clipboard, folder - guest additions
2. Install ROS on VM 
3. Configure ROS ENV