'Thor' robot with addons and GUI

To fit the roof of the 3 parted art1top part you have to cute a piece away from the left and right side, I will change it in the drawings so you don't have to wurry of it anymore. For those who have printed it already this is the solutions.

By making the gape it will fit perfectly.

Also a little drill out for the ventilation screws (I have to make them a little bit bigger.

Now it's perfect :-)

Thor+ 3D printing pack Version 1.0

BASE (Original AngelLM)

BASE ADDON's (Danny VdH)

All parts can be downloaded from page 'Thor_base_v1.0.zip'

ADDON's

Feedback potentiometer
Endstop sensor pcb reprapworld
Plugin 'connector box' or 'controller box'

CONTROLLER BOX (Original Danny VdH)

For housing the ultratronics V1.0 board

CONNECTOR BOX (Original Danny VdH)

All parts can be downloaded from page 'Thor_connector_box_v1.0.zip'
If you want to take the controller outside of the robot

ART2 (Original AngelLM)

ART2 MODS & ADDON's (Danny VdH)

All parts can be downloaded from page 'Thor_art2_v1.0.zip'

MOD's

Art1Body split into 3 parts
Art1Top slit into 3 parts

ADDON's

Art1Body added cooling fan
Art1Top added slip ring and pcb connector board

3D Cover parts feedback sensors finished, can be downloaded at the project page.
Can be added on already printed parts!

it I'm trying to add thor with feedback sensor technics, I want to keep the printed parts so far, so I made some addon pieces.
It's just a design at the moment, tell me what you think of it?

I have used so allready existing parts, the feedback pcb comes from makeblock. (Angular sensor v1.0) 360 degrees endless potentiometer.

I made a first design

Added 4 sensors for, two for the tools head , one for the shoulder and one for the elbow.
The base and rotating wrist will have other sensors, working on it.

And this will be the covers on the robot.

I am going the use a mini arduino to connect all sensors to the anolog inputs, and going to add the gripper servo and neopixel light also at it. So just 4 wires will be needed to go to the main board.
Like I said, It will be addons to the already designed thor robot. No need to reprint it. Just some small holes to drill to put every part on it.

They asked me to split this piece, I have gone a little bit further, made 3 pieces of it with a roof that can be opened, you can bring the middle motor into it on the orther way, the structure has been a lot stronger that way.The two other parts can be screwed togetter and be glued. I think it will reduce a lot of time printing it and little structures to use.
Also a fan has been forseen and the roof has some ventilation holes.

Hope you like it!

Modified the chamber art1 by adding a fan inside of it to cooldown the three stepper motors.

If you buy the fan try to take a silent one because the chamber is going to act as a acoustic room. (FAN 40x40x10mm)

You can download it from this page.

I'm building a slip ring CA24X4AL into the robot attached to a pcb board with connectors to wire the motors and the other electronics. The slipring has 24 wires and each wire can have 2A of current. I wanted to wire the robot on a professional way.

I found a potentionmeter for the price of 7€ with a moving body to initialize it. I'm gone order this to try to make a cheap feedback system for our steppers

P/N: 276-2216

With the Potentiometer you can determine both position and direction of rotation. Use this sensor to get an analog measurement of angular position. This measurement can help to understand the position of robot arms or other mechanisms. A Programming Kit is needed to change the program in the VEX Controller to use the Potentiometer.

• Measure Angular Position
• 250-Degrees of Adjustment
• Adjustable mounting angle

€13.99

http://www.vexrobotics.com/276-2216.html

Build in PS4 bluetooth, can be programmed to other controllers to bud I like the new PS4 controller :-)

Building some of the controller screens to move and follow the 'Thor' robot arm.
I ordered a usb host pcb + bluetooth dongle to connect my brandnew PS4 controller!
All movement will be analog controlled by the thumbsticks :-)

My first try of building the main screen

and this will be the manual controller screen!