Motorised Painting Handle
Finally getting somewhere....
While it’s fun to connect motors to microcontrollers and mess about making them spin, it’s really only when they’re actually connected to something that it makes much sense.
So far, the PCB supports a “simple” painting stand – you can rotate the top and you can angle the vertical support. In fact, during testing, it seems like this gives a really good range of angles to attack your miniature from, while painting.
I still quite fancy the idea of putting the entire thing onto a round base that can rotate, just to cover all “degrees of freedom”. Maybe that’ll come in a future development.
A friend once told me that “finished is better than perfect”. I’ve never quite understood; until it’s perfect, how do you know if it’s finished? That’s probably why I’ve a workshop full of unfinished projects, each filled with “potential to be awesome”!
But, for a “quick” weekend project, I think this is as done as it needs to be. Obviously, I’ll put together a nice enclosure, get all those nasty tangle-y (yep, that’s also a word) wires tucked away and stick a micro USB socket on the pcb (so you can run it from a phone charger, instead of requiring its own dedicated power supply).
Look out for the code and PDFs of the circuitry, PCB layout and laser-cutting files in the coming days, so you too can make your own!
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