A while ago I picked up these buttons for my Dr Who’s K-9 robot from AliExpress, Hobby Components have similar available online, The ones I purchased are SPDT with a 24 V DC incandescent bulb in them, regardless of the button colour they are all illuminated with a white incandescent […]
K9
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I have been trying to design a K9 for 3D printing for a while, even using Fusion 360 getting the body design has been a stumbling block, On Facebook, there is a k-9 builders community and a link to a OneDrive account with 200 x 200 sliced STLs. I have […]
To avoid this joke in future, I have started printing my K9’s head by printing the two parts of the nose first:
I came across this video via the K9 Facebook group, it was published a while ago, when I get a chance I will sit down and listen to it.
After having a go at assembling the ears printed in the last post, I decided to have a go at making something a little easier to assemble. Mat Prentis assembled this guide, which gave me the dimensions below: Heading into Fusion360, I generated the following model: Bob sliced it and […]
Nathaniel Poate of Team Shortcircuit Robot Bits supplied me with five drill motors, these are drill motors from cordless battery-powered drills. Three of them are 12 V, and the remaining two are 18 V motor and gearbox sets, these were given to me for use with robotics projects. I received […]
In a previous post, I talked about the MCP23017 and MCP23018, and why the MCP23017 was a better device for my use in this case (this case being my Remote control K9). The MCP23017 can only output a digital high of the same voltage as VDD, which is capped at […]