Dyne's LD-F1 (D-O concept) build

[Dyne]

I'm glad Kresty chimed in. My mechanical engineer son in law and I started to discuss the issue so we could compose some sort of a helpful response and ended up being unable to arrive at a consensus between the two of us as to what to reply. The conversation continues to be ongoing and of no assistance to anyone.

I apologize for repeating myself, but; Awesome work!

Thanks!

If you couldn't come to a consensus, I feel much better about scratching my head over it.

It's a moot point anyway until I figure out how I can even fit a servo. For awhile I told myself that if I needed a stronger (and likely larger) actuator, I could mount it along the bottom of the droid to pull or push directly on the stalks instead of on the bottom of the body. That now suffers the same problem of needing to be where the battery is.

Switching from the belt to the track drive is what messed me up there, I think. I suddenly needed the idlers and associated structure instead of a simple roller (to flatten the track out before it contacted the ground) so I didn't have as much room to mount random things tucked inside the tracks, outboard from the central body, and instead had to put them where I was wanting to put the battery.

I'll probably have to wire up my own cells to relocate it, or do something like a crazy reduction compact planetary gearbox ala michael rechtin, mounted inline with the stalk axle. Something to consider for V2.


As for the traction pads, we can potentially engage multiple printers. Besides my Chiron, I have access to my friend's Neptune 2 and my old Maker Select which I gave him before he got the Neptune 2. (The Maker Select is unreliable and awaiting rebuild, but it is technically working.)

It'd also mean that the rigid pads might end up printed in different colored filaments since the new spool of silver PETG can only be in one place at a time (i have a small amount on the original good spool, but it wouldnt last long. I have the remainder of the bad spool as well, but we're obviously would be wary of that one)


Front body shell came out fine. I'll probably print the rear shell tonight since I already have the white filament loaded.

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