CraneBot

I wanted to show my latest project, called the CraneBot. It's my first build using v-slot and metal plate carriages I machined using "at home" tools. It's similar to the Bukito and Openbot on openbuilds.com. I wanted to build a solid machine with minimzed parts count, fast to assemble, and be fairly portable. The link for the thingiverse page is here: [www.thingiverse.com]

I'm pretty pleased with the v-slot. Very quiet and smooth linear motion. Like a couple other of my builds, I made the z-axis belt driven with a geared PGL-48 stepper. You can watch it printing here: [www.youtube.com]

Here are some pics:

any chance of a video of this thing running? I would love to see that.

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milkypostman
any chance of a video of this thing running? I would love to see that.

Read the first post again, there is a link to a video.

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runninfarmer
I wanted to show my latest project, called the CraneBot. ...

Congratulations! A rather impressive design effort there.

Nicely named too!

whoops missed that link sorry. Hard to see how the axis move. I just thought it'd be kinda funky.

Hi, sorry for late reply. Thanks for the compliments! It was my first attempt at a minimalist printer. I ended up changing the z-axis over to screw drive to prevent tensioning issues I had with the belt. I sold the machine but can still try to answer questions that anyone has.