2017. július 31., hétfő

Pen Plotter 3. - Working

It is finally working.
Built the whole thing, assembled, then redesigned most of the pen holder.
The problem was the following:
  • The SG90 microservo I intended to use was not strong enough
  • The line I wanted to use to pull up the Z carriage was a bad design decision
  • The arduino was not able to provide enough current to the stalled microservo, so it rebooted when the pen pulled up.

In the new design:

  • The SG90 replaced with a more powerful MG995
  • The servo moving the carriage directly
  • Added a 6V regulator for the servo, what gets its power from the beefy 12V PSU and not the arduino.


The electronics on the head still messy as I don't designed a proper PCB yet (but it will only happen when I finish the milling and the laser engraving head design):



And finally here is the first video of the working unit:


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