WindDrake wrote: ↑February 26th, 2019, 6:50 pm It's been a bit - Anything new on this front Cole? How did the bigger linear servo work out?
Unfortunately not only was the bigger linear servo super expensive, but it also left me with no room to add rails for the mast to ride on. I'm not sure I mentioned it, but I was attempting to remove the motorized mast extension and have it be spring loaded instead. This meant I had to revise the mast's structure and I ultimately burned out before I finalized it. You can see some of this on the revision history of OnShape if you dig deep.
I'm still very interested in finishing the project and want to get everything published for others to use. Part of me was wishing that another person would fork the design and come up with a brilliant solution I had not thought of. I really just need to sit down and print out another 10 prototypes to nail the design down.
Long story short, still on-going but as always not as fast as I'd like it to be. Having you guys check in every once in a while does re-ignite a spark in me to keep going, so I'll probably dust of the 3D printer again this weekend and give it another go!