robots are dumb
Some time last year, I bought a mill. I then proceeded to drive that mill solely by eye, backlash-riddled dials, and Sharpie marks forever and ever, like I was doing for a while as a plucky undergraduate. While pushing around, on the bench, the DRO kit that I bought not long after the mill. Vacuuming [ ]
Good ol Susquehanna Boxcar. What started as a quick-build meme using whatever I had dug out of my (then, in late 2021, still not yet unpacked) totes full of motors turned into something that just kept evolving and getting funnier. After doing suspiciously well at Motorama 2022 using only surplus inkjet printer head motors for [ ]
So there I was one fine (a.k.a last) summer collecting some parts for the MOST RECENT PROJECT CATCH (never before seen on this site! Yet!) with Spool Bus, having been recently been re-HVAC d such that I no longer had to risk dehydration simply puttering it over to the shop or a car meet. The application [ ]
Haven t heard that name in a while, right? It seems like after renovating the fuel system way back in 2021, Spool Bus just kind of vanished off this website, except for appearing as background set in photos occasionally. That is because Spool Bus became sort of an unsung hero of the Old and New Robot [ ]
If you don t check out the prelude to this post with all of the design work, a lot of really fancy looking things are about to spawn out of midair! All told, this project wasn t difficult on the making end. It s a fairly basic assembly that is just physically large, and I barely had to [ ]