ajlelectronics
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It is an option, but most of my designs are free.
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It is an option, but most of my designs are free.
May I ask what they actually contain ...or will?
They take a battery, and a gps chip /aerial.
The round bits are the main body, the fan is all the lids nested.
They are for tracking rock movements.
So holes are core drilled into rocks / boulders, trackers are inserted, blanking cap and then resin sealed on top.
Then the movement of rocks in landslides / rivers / coast etc can be accurately datalogged
Must be ultra expensive if they are that accurate.
I have been looking for a sensibly priced thin GPS unit to fit into tube. I also need a 2g phone sim installed . But can't find anything.
I think these use radio rather than sim but I’ll ask
The circuit board is not much bigger than a Simcard but the battery takes up most space (D-cell)
I got asked to make a stand for a lecture bottle, as they are not available at the moment.
So a quick visit to the lab to measure up, 20 minutes in Solidworks and send it to the printer:
Job done
ASA print on a Stratasys F370 printer
Size is 200x200 base by 125mm tall
So a quick visit to the lab to measure up, 20 minutes in Solidworks and send it to the printer:
Job done
ASA print on a Stratasys F370 printer
Size is 200x200 base by 125mm tall
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LoRa by any chance?
What printer are you using? Doesn't look like a 'cheap' china model :-)?
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A number of years ago I designed some chuck spiders for the mini-lathe and a nice man at work kindly 3D printed them for me. They were really useful, but I don't use the mini-lathe any more. Now that I have my own 3D printer, I thought I'd have a go at making one for the Harrison M250. I was quite pleased that the parametric model I made for the mini-lathe worked perfectly with just a couple of dimension changes:
The one on the left was a quick test print to make sure the dimensions were right; the one on the right is the finished piece.
Quick test holding a washer in place:
It probably doesn't need to be as big as it is (same diameter as the chuck) and would have saved a lot of printing time (10 hrs 45 mins) & filament (150 g) to make it smaller, but it certainly doesn't hurt having it that size.
The one on the left was a quick test print to make sure the dimensions were right; the one on the right is the finished piece.
Quick test holding a washer in place:
It probably doesn't need to be as big as it is (same diameter as the chuck) and would have saved a lot of printing time (10 hrs 45 mins) & filament (150 g) to make it smaller, but it certainly doesn't hurt having it that size.
Nice oneNo it’s definately not a cheap chinese model
It’s a Stratasys Fortus 450, about as good as it gets architecture wise for FDM printers
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About £150k from some reviews!
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Not knocking the Fortus at all but it’s worth bearing in mind you can get results just as good without spending that much these days. The amount of development in even the last couple of years is dramatic.
Large format UV SLA printers (and the range of resins!) maybe most of all.
Large format UV SLA printers (and the range of resins!) maybe most of all.
If that's a Dcell it's too big for what I have in mind.
Fitting them inside my fishing tackle seat legs and kids bike seat tubes.
