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cutting notches in a ring
PL1:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on June 30, 2012, 02:05:03 am ---Now I need to find a source for a cow, a tutu and a culottes.
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SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: TopJimmyCooks on June 29, 2012, 08:27:21 pm ---What are you making?
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I didn't answer this at first because I'm not really quite sure how to describe it. It's a custom score reel... sort of.
Not sure if I'll ever put the finished design into a cab. The sketchup model looks very good and my calculations show it to be functional. The major problems I'm encountering are A) finding motors/servos/steppers that will work that are cheap enough (my model requires one for each place value) I can't quite work out the forces involved and B) feedback which is, what I hope, the notches will solve.
The controller requirements are getting beefy too. Every time I add a new feature, it practically doubles my IO requirement. For the morons who will inevitably poopoo that statement. To give you an idea, the motors require two I/O each so for three digits, that's six I/O. Add feedback and I just doubled my requirements to 12 I/O. I know I can reduce the I/O requirements through refining the circuit, such as using only N+1 I/O for each motor, but it's too early to work those out anyways. I'm using an Atmega32U4 so I have plenty of headroom, I just don't want to commit the final circuit to a controller better used elsewhere.