Project | AutoFold the Box Folding Robot

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It's Finally Working!!!
07/14/2017 at 01:29 • 1 comment
Wiring Nightmare
06/20/2017 at 19:46 • 2 comments
I think I left it in the wrong part of town
06/13/2017 at 16:48 • 0 comments

No Motors :(
Almost all motor installed
06/12/2017 at 18:47 • 1 comment
New Motor Controller boards
05/26/2017 at 19:05 • 0 comments

I reduce the motor controller boards down from 5 Big Easy drivers to 4. I also made the 24 volt lines much thicker. Also a special thanks Metal for all his help and the better Quick connectors
Set backs & fried components :(
05/17/2017 at 17:55 • 0 comments

I blew up chips on our Motor controllers
if you look at the pins below the heat sink you will see one is missing, that is because it got fried.
I have fried 3 like this so far :(
One was because of bad stepper motors. The steppers also destroyed the internals of 4 other drivers. They have been sent back and replaced. Thank you Dan for getting replacements.
One was my fault, I wired a motor to the drive wrong.
The latest time I don't know why it blew. This is of course the one bothers me the most because the unknowns are preventing us from getting more than 5 motors working in sequence.
Tower of Power!!!
05/02/2017 at 22:43 • 3 comments

We made the boards for all the motor drivers 15 in one big stack!
It's Alive!!!
04/18/2017 at 23:40 • 1 comment

we finally have 4 motors all working together in the correct order
1st Month Photoshoot
04/04/2017 at 16:56 • 0 comments
PCB TIME!! (like hammer time only defferent)
04/01/2017 at 01:23 • 0 comments

we made some circuit bored or the first time on the other mill. It was very satisfying. Starting we made a beak out bores to connect our 8 limit switches to a IDC 16 pin ribbon cable. We made a 4 stepper to IDC also. we got the tool and made the cable our selves and it was relay fast with no soldering.
we used KiCad to make the circuit.
total mess at first.