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Started flattening a cap, seeing as how I have so many. Last night I almost finished flattening and drilling said cap, bit I try not to use hammers and drills after midnight.
Tonight I am doing that though.
This is course is what I’m going to be attaching the servo horn to.

Baleful red eye, a jetblack body, a strips of illumination pulsing.
SBC in a guild navigator spice tank. Thick wet umbilicals going to the other cars.
Construction yellow gripper?

I’m def feeling the 2001, Dune, Tron, Half-Made World feel. Still not positive on the gripper.

I’m not. While my ability to rabbit hole everything I do leads me to have a much larger knowledge base, it makes it difficult to do anything.
So, it’s time to task orient.
I considered “task date” but that leads to the fealings of failure when things are behind.
I think I’ll go with a base number.
Task I (because Roman numerals are sexy)
Attach servo to something.

Servo horn, square end on a disk, the square is designed to fit a driver bit, so attached horn, horn goes into bit, bit turns bolt, bolt has threads, motion.

I may be using the word horn wrong though.

Also, this will get expensive on buying bits if done in bulk.

Rudimentary drawing is done, now to attach a servo to a bolt.

I want a claw that doesn’t apply torsion to the book. This means we can’t have angular motion, at least not without a lot of tomfoolery. My initial(ious) thought is a servo driven grabber. Add some feedback and we can make sure we always have the right amount of pressure (one I get that calibrated, and probably add a mass value per title). Or, maybe I should do a load cell. Huh.That might be a good idea…

Last night the Wif and I went to Tru-Value for some sundry hardware. They didn’t have wire what I wanted on trends if bolts and nuts, but I picked up what was closest so I could do a trial concept at a minimum. The problem is the length of the threads are nowhere near add long as I want (for using as a threaded rod). The fun bit is that I’m thinking they are long enough for the grabber.
Happy little accidents.
I’m still visualizing how this is ask going to work. I’m starting to visualize the style though, so glue me that’s half the battle.
Grabber.

So that going to be my part 1.

Started thinking about the book storage facility. That’s right. I’ve thought about this problem before, never got anywhere, and note I’m back to nowhere.
The issue is that I have over (and this is off the top of my head, and being very discriminatory regarding what is a paperback book) 3 cubic feet of paperback books. Done on end, and now we’re looking at (mental arithmeticcing like a madman on the bus) over 20′, and this will only get worse.
So I need a train car that…
(Time passes)
Oo! I was taking out loud while a file processed.
Train car
Goes between two sets of shelves
Each set of shelves has a rail aligned with the shelf itself
Grabber on pivot
Grabber turns to desired book
Backside of grabber braces against rail
Arm grabs book
Arm pulls book in
Debrace (totes making up word again)
Grabber pivots inline with train
Roll out

Now I see how this is going to work, this is going to need to be my first trial. This is the thing that’ll make or break the deal.

Books aren’t too delicate, so I’ll start by building a grabber
Put grabber on an arm
Put arm on a pivot
Add brace to pivot
Add train under pivot
Add track under train
Add shelves to either side of train

3′ wide is probably the max on the shelves. If I have a derailment or standard maintenance, I don’t want to have to tear apart things.