lørdag 29. juni 2013

Some more progress before I go on vacation:


Trying different things here, like smaller wheels and such

mandag 24. juni 2013

Done some more LDD work on my Mk II Swingloader, and this is the current state of things:


It is turning out a lot smaller than the original it would seem, but that may be a good thing! Unfortunately, routing five axles through the articulation requires a minimum of 9 studs in the z-direction (5 for the actual axles, as well as 1 stud between each of them), in order for the rest of the build to be reasonably contained in the x- and y-directions. 

However, still a very much work in progress, will continue to update as i make more progress!

torsdag 20. juni 2013

Done some digital work for my "Swingloader Mk II", trying to make the things that were not so good in my initial model better. There were a lot of half ass solutions, amongst other things poor connections, and a lot of U-joints used where gear transmissions would have been better (and would have saved a lot of my U-joints from breaking).

Anyway, this is what the original model looked like:

And this is how far I've come with the Mk II motor/transmission setup in LDD:

Will still have all motors in the back, more or less directly above the rear axle, but all the transmission of power onto the vertically parallell axles are now done by gears.

Will post more pictures as the progress continues.=)


torsdag 6. juni 2013

Working on a downscaling of my small red race car chassis, and with the L motors, this is really possible.

The steering is the exact same as on the red race car, but the servo now placed between two L-motors, facing backwards.

With the same gearing as the red race car, this should make for an extremely fast, compact design with independent double wishbone suspension on all wheels!