The Doodatable
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 8:53 am
One of many projects on the go at the moment - this one is called The Doodatable:
The motivation came from my attempts to spray paint Bender with a chrome finish - it was painted pre-assembly like:
While doing it, it occurred to me that painting assembled models would be a pain in the arse, so a turntable seemed like a logical requirement. Having a spare Arduino, stepper motor and some microswitches, I decided to make it electronic, so the switches turn it clockwise and anti-clockwise.
Not shown (or done), but the concept is mainly that I need to cover the table part with painter's tape and put the table in a box, with the circuitry on the outside and it should make a handy little .. umm.. thing. It can also be used for 3D scanning (will have a crack at this too), and as a general rotating presentation thing for other models.
Haven't posted on thingiverse yet - vaguely thinking about a box to host the electronics and switches, and creating some variants (both wired and non-wired).
Work in progress jscad model is found here:
http://www.geminidev.be/3d/openjscad/#e ... main.jscad
The design of the motor component makes me smile .
The motivation came from my attempts to spray paint Bender with a chrome finish - it was painted pre-assembly like:
While doing it, it occurred to me that painting assembled models would be a pain in the arse, so a turntable seemed like a logical requirement. Having a spare Arduino, stepper motor and some microswitches, I decided to make it electronic, so the switches turn it clockwise and anti-clockwise.
Not shown (or done), but the concept is mainly that I need to cover the table part with painter's tape and put the table in a box, with the circuitry on the outside and it should make a handy little .. umm.. thing. It can also be used for 3D scanning (will have a crack at this too), and as a general rotating presentation thing for other models.
Haven't posted on thingiverse yet - vaguely thinking about a box to host the electronics and switches, and creating some variants (both wired and non-wired).
Work in progress jscad model is found here:
http://www.geminidev.be/3d/openjscad/#e ... main.jscad
The design of the motor component makes me smile .