Starting on the big print for the base with a 72-tooth worm drive that will turn at 20 minutes per revolution to make the entire orrery rotate once per day.
The slowest speed in "wheel mode" for the STS3215 servo is still much too fast for the orrery's 20 minutes per revolution and the position mode doesn't allow wrap around, so I've made an outer loop controller that runs wheel mode once every ten seconds for a few milliseconds and uses the position feedback to stop at the right spot.
This random aluminum is not making chips.
My new clock has an once per day hour hand and complications for the lunar phase, plus geocentric position of Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter.
Starting on the big print for the base with a 72-tooth worm drive that will turn at 20 minutes per revolution to make the entire orrery rotate once per day.
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I did mess up the constraint for the gear diameter so the end support was too close to the worm wheel teeth. A little subtractive manufacturing atop the additive fixed it so I didn't have to print another test fixture.
My new clock has an once per day hour hand and complications for the lunar phase, plus geocentric position of Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter.
Moving on to the drive mechanism, I'm testing the ST3215 continuous rotation servo turning a chonky 1.5mm worm gear and matching helical involute gear. The driver has an esp32-c3 built in so I can also use it for clock synchronisation.
I did mess up the constraint for the gear diameter so the end support was too close to the worm wheel teeth. A little subtractive manufacturing atop the additive fixed it so I didn't have to print another test fixture.
Heavenly bodies are starting to appear! Partner asks "where is Saturn?", which would require adding another layer to the gear train...
Moving on to the drive mechanism, I'm testing the ST3215 continuous rotation servo turning a chonky 1.5mm worm gear and matching helical involute gear. The driver has an esp32-c3 built in so I can also use it for clock synchronisation.
Datasheet authors: Please remember to actually include the dimensions for the mounting holes! I'm glad you told me the four hole pattern is M2, but what is the spacing?
now this is a useful set of measurements for the ST3215 servo compared to the vendor provided data sheet.
Datasheet authors: Please remember to actually include the dimensions for the mounting holes! I'm glad you told me the four hole pattern is M2, but what is the spacing?
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