- April 27th, 2018, 11:58 pm#4905264
Hey All,
While I am fortunate enough to own a matty PKE I hate the idea of losing/breaking it and not wanting to spend $300 on a new one. I started printing some thingiverse versions but while some of models are very nice they all missing major features or were very hard to print. So I have built my own model and electronics to go with it. I am not a programing wizard nor electronics engineer so I will be keeping it as simple as possible. The only thing I have cut out is sound it just adds to much extra electronics so lights and motion only.
Early Rough shape. So many curved surfaces! Even the handle had curves and getting the curves and fillets to play nice was not easy. I took the opportunity to start using Fusion 360 and once I got used to its pretty sweet, and FREE!
Added front pop out for screen and buttons. Also added the side insets, these were missing from many other models and that really bugged me for whatever reason.
Backside with ribs, sound like a BBQ menu item.
Punched holes in all the appropriate areas and created wings. I also split the model in half to be able to print on a 200x200mm printer. I have exported all these pieces and will be printing test prints so I can get a better idea of what need to change and be added for electronics.
Wings with gears. I worry that I made the tolerances to tight here but only time will tell.
Early electronics. The biggest issue is when you hit the button to move the wings it interrupts the leds. But if you just tap the button vs holding it down it's not super noticeable. I could just run two separate arduinos or fix the code I guess.
https://youtu.be/GYJfsJefVxk
While I am fortunate enough to own a matty PKE I hate the idea of losing/breaking it and not wanting to spend $300 on a new one. I started printing some thingiverse versions but while some of models are very nice they all missing major features or were very hard to print. So I have built my own model and electronics to go with it. I am not a programing wizard nor electronics engineer so I will be keeping it as simple as possible. The only thing I have cut out is sound it just adds to much extra electronics so lights and motion only.
Early Rough shape. So many curved surfaces! Even the handle had curves and getting the curves and fillets to play nice was not easy. I took the opportunity to start using Fusion 360 and once I got used to its pretty sweet, and FREE!
Added front pop out for screen and buttons. Also added the side insets, these were missing from many other models and that really bugged me for whatever reason.
Backside with ribs, sound like a BBQ menu item.
Punched holes in all the appropriate areas and created wings. I also split the model in half to be able to print on a 200x200mm printer. I have exported all these pieces and will be printing test prints so I can get a better idea of what need to change and be added for electronics.
Wings with gears. I worry that I made the tolerances to tight here but only time will tell.
Early electronics. The biggest issue is when you hit the button to move the wings it interrupts the leds. But if you just tap the button vs holding it down it's not super noticeable. I could just run two separate arduinos or fix the code I guess.
https://youtu.be/GYJfsJefVxk
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