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Rotating control panels in the CNC age... why so rare still?
BadMouth:
--- Quote from: marioxb on September 27, 2013, 01:39:19 pm ---I like this. Now how would a dummy like me make it?
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Proper way would be to use linear actuator$ and guide rail$.
You might be able to pull it off with power window assemblies, but it will be a challenge to make the CP solid in place.
The CPs in those pics need the bottom part of the monitor bezel attached to them so the joysticks will clear.
CoryBee:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on September 27, 2013, 02:03:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: marioxb on September 27, 2013, 01:39:19 pm ---I like this. Now how would a dummy like me make it?
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Proper way would be to use linear actuator$ and guide rail$.
You might be able to pull it off with power window assemblies, but it will be a challenge to make the CP solid in place.
The CPs in those pics need the bottom part of the monitor bezel attached to them so the joysticks will clear.
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I thought my design was a nice clean way, albeit expensive, to do a multiple cp cabinet. Also gives the option of automation. The cabinet body I made is something I did in paint, has no bearing on reality and looks nothing like any I have made. So you would have to build accordingly.
:cheers:
marioxb:
Well it's just that all these words like actuators, guide rails, power window assemblies? Uhh what? Needs to muuuuuuuuuuuuch more simpler for me. As Michael Scott said on the Office, "Explain it to me as if I was five."
SavannahLion:
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If your playing an intense game, the last thing you want is to get killed due to response delays in wireless controls.
Or even batteries running out as your about to kill the end boss
...as well as the whole aspect of having to work out a charging scheme.
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Wow when you get entrenched you really dig yourself deep.
I didn't suggest the wireless controller to make the entire thing wireless. I suggested it to limit the wire count.
To use the Rot as an example, if a metal pipe is used as the pivot then split the pipe and isolate each side. Add a couple of spring loaded brushes and a fat cap to smooth the power and you now have a full 360 rotating Rot panel.
To use the Swap design. Use a set of off centered magnets (or use a bridge rectifier) and run a low voltage through the magnets. Or play dangerous and have a bone simple wall socket and plug. Those things have a nearly infinite life span.
either way results in a stupidly simple set up that pales compared to the engineering required to get a Rot panel designed and built.
Or, you can go balls crazy and use an inducting coil to supply power. On the side with the Rot or somewhere along the bottom with a Swap.
No matter what, a battery is not even remotely required or desired.
CoryBee:
--- Quote from: marioxb on September 27, 2013, 09:28:44 pm ---Well it's just that all these words like actuators, guide rails, power window assemblies? Uhh what? Needs to muuuuuuuuuuuuch more simpler for me. As Michael Scott said on the Office, "Explain it to me as if I was five."
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Actuator is the thing that pushes the control panel (cp1) up and down or (cp2) left and right. The guide rails is what you would put into places that the Control panels would slide on to add stability and strength to the whole system.
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