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To Do
Feb 3, 2020
- ordered heat sinks and fans for circularknitic power electronics
Jan 8, 2020
- assembling rotoknitic
- email correspondance on circularknitic
Tue Jan 7, 2020
RotoKnitic v19.01. Knitic Genealogy.
April 29, 2019
- Mar from CircularKnitic suggested using solenoid to operate the needle movement
- due to the limited travel distance, i think some sort of lever with a bearing will be needed
- will need to transfer the lever's circular motion into linear
- https://www.digikey.com/products/en/motors-solenoids-driver-boards-modules/solenoids-actuators/180?v=527
April 27, 2019
- perhaps could define p4clear possibly as low as 1/2 of -p4rampH? maybe -1/3*p4rampH ?
- this would reduce needle travel and shrink mountain
- Applied to show CircularKnitic at MakerFaireTulsa https://tulsa.makerfaire.com/
April 21, 2019
- working on rotoknitic idea
- need to make rack and pinion
April 20, 2019
- documented sock sized circular knitic build
Mar 2, 2019
- Circular knitic build and design changes
Feb 16, 2019
- started a BOM scad file to auto generate bolt size/length/count output
- formatting is not very user friendly but nice to have calculated output
Feb 15, 2019
- Looking up parts for build
- need to get full list of bolts and nuts
Jan 19, 2019
- worked on knitic
- changed to a printed drive gear
- avoiding a $6 single source part
- added holes for stepper motor
- could use regular DC, but in the future might use steps to customize mountain use
- changed table top to octogon, added holes for mounting legs
- calculating tabletop OD using stepper motor width and gear sizes
- added some needles to the full assembly model to check placement
- need to add bolts to smallbearingholder to make sure the nut/head dont hit anything
- changed to a printed drive gear
Jan 15, 2019
- Review CEB Press Controller v19.01
- more circular knitic work, tweaking the Z bearing holder to be more printer friendly
- searching for local CNC Laser cutting shops for hire, found 4 or 5
Jan 2, 2019
- proposed new design RotoKnitic v19.01
Jan 1, 2019
- cleaning up circular knitic design