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Glad you like it.  When I get to this point in the project and some larger sections of design, electronics, FPGAs, Software, mechanics and fabrication all start coming together it is pretty exciting and can keep one motivated to push forward against such a large hobby project.   

Bob,

That is just a small part of the project. If you care to see, I have a 1-page photographic overview of the larger project.

http://nikita.argia.net/kmaxon/page/sojourner/001_set.htm

It is still a work in progress and since it is a hobby and I have to maintain a full time job, work ...

The original design for this joint had been a cable pulley configuration that translated through the 90 degree turn. Much earlier in the project I had already fabricated the large aluminum pulley for the horizontal axis. After looking at what I had done above, and seeing the pulley frame sitting on ...

A quick look at my first experience with Gearotic Thoughts and my 3D printer over this past weekend.

Basic straight tooth bevel gears were produced in the software. These were exported (*.STL) to my CAD software which brings in a mesh of lines representing the triangle vertices'. All of the ...