This post will be a quick update, just to give a run down on some of the progress that has been made:
I purchased the Electric razor scooter motors, gears, wheels and chains for R2 to be able to drive.
I’ve cut and begun assembly of one of the drive feet – I will have to get the plans for the 2nd foot printed out and begin work on fabricating the parts shortly, but I’m going to attempt to finish one foot first. This hopefully means I won’t make as many mistakes on the second one. That said I’m not holding out hope for it to be painless, haha.
This photo shows the larger pieces laid out as I was organizing them for assembly. At the bottom of the photo you can see two long rectangular pieces – unfortunately the third piece of similar width + length didn’t get cut out as I had forgotten it with other parts. This meant I could only start the very beginning of the foot as shown next.
It’s quite difficult to make out in this photo, but I’ve actually glued three of the pieces (the trapezoidal ones from above) together to form the main block of the food and used the two triangular ones to create the support. Most of the effort at this point is going over the edges with my dremel to sand them down so that they’re even and match the other pieces they’re glued to. Due to the imprecise nature of my cuts this portion is frequently quite lengthy.
In addition I finally got around to completing the skirt section of R2, which while it will definitely need some polish, felt good. Throwing that packet of instructions into the garbage was very satisfying. In this photo you can see that I’m using painters tape to hole the curved skirt pieces in place while the solvent dries. Once that was done I then took the detail pieces seen in the middle and placed them on the outside. There were no specific directions for how far apart to place them so I used some photos for reference and just winged it. I did measure the total length of the curve and make sure that the gaps were symmetrical, though.