Two print “orders” from a friend for his robots

After using my printer to improve my own robots, I quickly peaked the interest of a friend of mine that I know from the LetsRobot Community. He wanted to replace 4 wheels of one of his robots, as well as have a customized mount for his RasPi camera module + LED matrix. As Wheels he wanted to use the open source wheels provided by the LetsRobot team, so that was easy enough. Just download the .stl, tweak a few settings and let it print. Each wheel took a bit over 3 hours and quite a lot of material.

The camera bracket was quick to print, but we needed to design that first so it could fit his needs. Fortunately this wasn’t all too complicated and after finding specsheets for the two modules I could quickly model the bracket for his need.

My first print didn’t turn out too well, and I realized I needed to print it in another orientation. The camera module didn’t fit anyway since I didn’t give the model a big enough tolerance to compensate the quality of my printer. But already the second attempt worked out way better, so I printed the bracket three times (2x for his robots and 1x in case anything breaks) and included it in the shipment.

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