Begin Final Assembly

With some of the custom designed parts finished, I began to work on the final assembly for the CAD that combined my parts with some external models of the parts I planned to use.

I had lost around an hour and an half of work due to Lookout crashing without me knowing, but most of it was redone in order to create the 300mm rail with only the model of the 100mm rail online after the first one failed.

I put the rail on both edge pieces (including remaking one because I realized they were not symmetrical), added the central plate to the x axis block, added the stepper motors, added the G2 pulleys and idler pulleys for both axes, added the y axis rail, and made and added the idler pulley for the y axis. I also added the required screws and nuts.

This also includes many smaller changes such as struggling and adjusting the screw positions, changing distances of screw holes on the central plate, changing the mount side of the y axis stepper motor, and many other small size revisions.

The remaining steps are:

• Create the Y axis mount
• Add the belts
• Add a rail parallel to the x axis for better stability
• Add a mount for the Arduino Uno
• Create the wiring diagram
• Code

I’ll hopefully update this list through the final logs over the next few days.