morganRunning #BarbackV2 at #makerfairebayarea this weekend is really driving the desperation of getting the next revision out. Cleanability is still a nightmare and more an more of the 3mm hardware is getting stripped out, pretty soon the motor arch will be barely hanging on. I'm getting close on the new tray design and really hope to start building parts of it this week. But had a blast pouring, got a lot of feedback and ideas for solving many of the other small problems.
I've been mulling a soft robotics project for a year or so now and as soon as I feel like #BarbackV2 is in a good state, it's going to be my next major project. Replicating some stuff like this would be a fun warmup.
Still going strong, did a pretty full walk through of #BarbackV2 and moving onto fixing some issues and probably talking about why #Asm4 is the best assembly workbench
As I'm working on #BarbackV2 I'm revisiting the pump design. In a great irony, I spent so much time designing pumps to be high flow that they're actually too fast. We currently pour a drink in ~3 seconds. Way better than the 30 seconds it took before, but also..... maybe just toooo fast. I've tried slowing them down but torque gets too low to overcome braking force. I have a firmware update that should help with this by going full power for a .25 sec or something before settling down.
Had a bit of success live streaming some development work earlier this year so going to give it another run, trying to hit the same time each week. So starting this Wed I'll be streaming for a couple hours starting at 10am Pacific time. This week I'll be working on #FreeCAD, #BarbackV2 and trying to get #KiConnect v1.0 released.
KiConnect/FreeCAD Developement
Morgan hacking on software, electronics or wood/CNC. FreeCAD, ESP32s, LinuxCNC
I wish this was a joke but #BarbackV2 is in need of something like 8 to 12 quick disconnects to solve some maintenance problems. Machining these into blocks of 4 out of nylon or HDPE wouldn't be out of the question. Looking at off the shelf options many are just sealed with a double o-ring. Plus, I have a terribly neglected slitting saw.
@FreeCAD Earlier this week I've finally got the #BarbackV2 project files cleaned up and created a project page.
https://oit.cloud/projects/barbackv2/
Now I have a solid base to start improving maintainability.
Finally got some drunk ducks in a row, cleaned up most of the #BarbackV2 design files and created a project page. check. it. out.
Mastodon Information Directory! I'm hoping to find people (groups or individuals) doing cocktail or beverage robotics attending #makerfairebayarea this year. I'd like to bring #BarbackV2 to show off and if I could jump in with a group doing similar stuff that'd be even better! Otherwise roam around and serve mocktails?
