jtskywalker

Fixed an RC car with my 3D printer

https://lemmy.world/post/1351442

Fixed an RC car with my 3D printer - LemmyWorld

The printer (sv06) just arrived yesterday and it has already saved the day for my kid. His RC car stopped turning, and after taking the controllwe apart I found that the piece that actually turns the box inside was broken broken piece [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/29e14966-f79b-4ada-a2d5-fb5f682d0f5b.jpeg] I measured everything with my calipers and struggled with it in fusion 360 for like an hour, had to make adjustments and print again, and finally got this: replacement part [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4d2f0219-40ee-4ffc-884d-e91395354943.jpeg] Put everything together and… Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the video file [https://i.imgur.com/7DofLyP.mp4] instead. Here is a description of the content: working Success!

Jul 11, 2023 at 5:29pmWeb
Show threaddigninJul 11, 2023

Outstanding work! Did you have previous experience with Fusion360 and modeling?

For some reason the working photo didn’t come through for me (on wefwef client).

Show threadjtskywalkerJul 11, 2023

Thank you!

I messed around with blender for a couple of weeks wayyyy back in the day. Mostly, I have just been following some fusion 360 tutorials on youtube for the last week. I know I am not using all of the tools available, or at least not correctly, because some of the things were just not working right and I had to re-do them several times to get things to link up properly. Thinking back it was probably more like a couple hours of modeling…

The tutorial I’ve been following is Learn Fusion 360 in 30 days from Product Design Online, which is fantastic, but when I’m not following along directly it’s hard to remember all of the different tools that he uses to make things work. I’m sure I’ll get comfortable with it eventually. It’s a really fun learning process though.

The working video is an imgur link - I wasn’t able to get it to embed with Lemmy but it’s here: i.imgur.com/7DofLyP.mp4

Just a clip of the assembled controller showing that the wheels on the car respond to the input