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This was an earlier brain child, that just reached maturity. It might require too high of voltage out current, but it would be a cheaper build, maybe. Less precision, definitely. Oh, and it would look sick. Do a looped one sided flexible chain. Each link would have matching electromagnets. As the links move down, creating the lift if you will, the motors and wheels being at the bottom of the chain, the links would run against a brushes that wild activate from that new link on down. Add in a couple diodes, and as the links were retracted, the magnets would disengage.

Like I said, I need to do math on how much current/voltage I’m talking about. EMF might be an issue. Pace makers. Small metal bits. Whatever.

What about a zipper. Yet again, make the chain only roll one way, but instead of magnets, have two chains, with opposite facings, zippering together.

I’d love to just go inspector gadget, but that seems the most complicated, mainly due to the number of concentric rings I’d need. That and how to actuate them is kinda slippy.

How to do variable height leg/wheel combos that can raise something with a quarter inch of clearance high enough to climb stairs while still being able to sweep the entire middle floor (including under the couch). Cams would be easy if it didn’t need…

Wait. A multiple step cam system. The wheels and motors are mounted on rods with pinion gears. These rods go through a geared motor thing that turns the entire assembly, which gives us the clearance for the motor. Than any normal geared motor just raises the whole leg by spinning the motor which messages with the pinion. I’m fairly sure my English is crap right now. Hopefully this will jog enough memory for me to be able to draw it tomorrow.

More of the slight head cold. But when it happens to really hot on Friday night and rocks through the weekend, it kinda looks motivation. To clarify, I’m doing the third load of laundry and currently debating about round of dishes, so it’s not like I’m completely dead to the world. However, for whatever reason, Fusion 360 is really doesn’t about creating or moving projects around, and I don’t want to dick with it, but I should, but I don’t want to.

I should.

I think I’m going to rough in my design choices for my sweeper bot. I’ll add guesses for numbers, but otherwise, I’ll try to leave everything vaguely derived. The body should be squarish, with the wheels mounting halfway to the body. The wheels should extend above and below the body in case of cat/dog induced inversion.

Well that does it for the old brain tonight. May my cold go to hell.

I think I need to start doing proper documentation on what I do at work. Ideally I’d want something available on both the web and print (because I’m a dinosaur). Print is easy, because I literally work on a print shop. Well it’s doable, but I need to look at what we have available without pissing on too many breakfast cereal bowls.

I guess I could bang something out in PReS Connect?

I made some good progress.

I ran through a transactional mailing with variable length records, white space records and the like. I’ve now realized there’s a serious need for sample data generators. Or, at least I think there’s a need for sample data generators. I might write something up. Or I might not. Maybe I’m worrying about things that don’t exist. Either way, I have a lot of work to do, and the more I do it, the better.

Next, I printed my homebrew test thing. I’ll post pictures at some point. It came out at nice, but the measurements weren’t 100% on. Of course, this is why I designed a test piece. I’ll need to as tensioners for the X and Y axes. Huh, axes is the plural form of axis. Weird. I printed someone else’s Y tensioner, but I don’t really like it. I’ll make my own. As it is, I didn’t see an X axis tensioner right off, and that’s the one that’s the most crap right now. The other issue I have is the texture on the bottom and top of points is similar to a scaled down picked truck diamond finish. I’m thinking that’s under extrusion. As it is, I have the Wif the test block, and she loved it.

Also on the printing front is the printing front end. I kinda want to move over to slicr rather than cura for my slicer of daily use. Because why not.

Over the next few days, I need to do a clean off the den, so I can get back to brewing, sewing, and stuff.

• Swapped fonts, no dice
• Removed backgrounds, even worse (everything imposed blank???)
• Let’s smash in JobFlow, and see what happens, prior to imposition
• Then, one record at a time?

Smashing worked. It’s stupid, but it’s a surprisingly robust solution to all of printing’s troubles. By snagging I mean “take a PDF, add a page, delete the page I just added, save”. It’s almost embarrassing.

Oh duh. For any progress where I’m looking at logging exact and every file that comes in and whatever valuable info about it, I could just dump it into a CSV file with a quick echo. Now to figure out what info I can get. I wonder if VBScript will allow me to do an echo, because if already need to use… Would I? I actually think I don’t need to use Alambic to get the page count.

Whatever. First I need to get records in that other job to not suck.

Everything works except sporadic records. While I’m sure there is a reason, I haven’t found it yet.

• Check job creation settings
• Replace one field at a time
• Verify all options are turned off
• Make sure Ottomans are turned off for the matter file

I love weird cryptic bugs…

Getting to rewrite JavaScript in VBScript. Who the hell doesn’t even have a built in rounding control? Whomever created VBScript I guess. This is why we can’t have nice things.

I was watching something about a screw driven tank, this. I’m thinking of that for the sweeper motion. Have the two riders with the bristles being the threads of the screws. I could mount it with only one support end of I did it right, I should draw it out, and look up some numbers on efficiency.