this is probably the best paintball turret design I've seen, great work man

@ThoughtinFlight

10 ай бұрын

Thanks dude!

Excellent work, and not only did you provide good instructions, but your video was very educational. Great presentation and hope you keep us informed on some of your future projects. Keep enjoying your career, and encouraging others into the mechatronic engineering career.

I don't know how KZread distorts the audio to such an extent, I'll try fix it on succeeding videos

Thank you for this in depth overview of the design process for this project. The references n stuff are hilarious too lol. Good stuff

What an impressive project. Well done. I would love to build something like that. Keep it up.

Dope video

I had always had it in my head that Steppers would have been better for this sort of application, due to their high accuracy. Very interesting to hear you are using servos and a belt-driven gear reducer! Clever! I'll probably incorperate it into my designs

@ThoughtinFlight

4 жыл бұрын

Steppers are accurate, but very slow and don't handle dynamic situations well! They are for CNC machines where paths are predictable and the load heavy.

I love your design and your explanation was very helpful. I'm much more of a coder than a mechanical guy, but I've been working on a paintball sentry bot that can move around. Lmk if you'd be willing to collab on a new turret design!

@ThoughtinFlight

9 ай бұрын

Totally man! We should have a call some time :)

How does your belt drive design work? Is there plans

"Good Job"

Hi Dale, I need to build one of these, do you have a kit list for sale ?

hey how did you cut those aluminium parts so clean and fine?

@ThoughtinFlight

2 жыл бұрын

I sent the DXF files to a metal laser cutting shop, told them the aluminium i needed, then picked them up

what about worm gears ? will they work fine? I considered because I think they'll make the mechanism more stable

@ThoughtinFlight

2 жыл бұрын

They will allow very accurate movement but very very slow response

Great job, very in depth and well thought through. You could have gone for a used Smart Parts ION. Theyre cheaper than the Griphon and I have loads of them. I've designed a unique system, any chance I could get in touch, based in Durban.

@ThoughtinFlight

4 жыл бұрын

Wow! First time I see this marker! I'l definitely keep an eye out for it. I'm located in Cape Town, you can contact me on the email at sparrow@stlr.co.za

Well done a lot of work and calculation .More info on the software another video maybe. Is it operating with n pc connect or standalone

@ThoughtinFlight

5 жыл бұрын

Yea, there will be another two video that will explain how the control and tracking systems work. They take a while to make but look out for them in the near future

24:52 can u explain how that triangular thing on the top is getting affected by the big pulley insider system?

@ThoughtinFlight

2 жыл бұрын

The big middle gear has a smaller pinion that the belt around the triangle goes around. Same as the bottom mechanism where the section gear at the base connects.

Hiya Dale I'm working on a similar project and was wondering if you could release the cad files so I could have a better look at the belt system, thank you

@colesechoingagin3159

2 жыл бұрын

Or any mechanical drawings you have would be immensely helpful

Will you ever open source the files, id love to make something similar. Also are there any changes you would make to your design today with 3d printing advancements etc?

@ThoughtinFlight

3 жыл бұрын

I am actually taking to a few guys interested in this on how we'd go about it. The files for this particular turret will be useless basically. A new version of the turret is the way to go!

@deldrise9169

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThoughtinFlight Interesting. alright thanks

@ThoughtinFlight

3 жыл бұрын

@@deldrise9169 There's stuff like newly invented 3D printable gearboxes and advances in camera and vision tech that will make it tons better

hey I'm doing the same work as yours but instead of servo im using Nema 17 Stepper with Geekworm Stepper HAT, my motors aren't moving smoothly they make a hell lot of noise that it feels like someone is firing a turret and keeps on moving in one direction even if i give command to rotate in oppsite it just keeps on going sometimes it just roatates one step back and then keeps moving forward direc. in microstepping mode it keeps on vibrating but don't rotate it heats up the motors too. See If u can help me, your any help could be a precious one for me :).

@shrinkz804

2 жыл бұрын

I'm doing all this with RaspberryPi model 3B+, if I intend to use servos then how can I with Raspberry for such kinda application?

@shrinkz804

2 жыл бұрын

the first version I made was on Servos but I was just kid back then so I didn't knew the technical stuff

@ThoughtinFlight

2 жыл бұрын

This sounds like an issue of wiring or coding since they should move, but probably not as good as servos

@shrinkz804

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThoughtinFlight yeah true

Puedes compartir el excelente diseño en planos con dimencionrs

@ThoughtinFlight

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Roberto, I can share these drawings but I don't think it's the way to go, there is some immense improvements to be made on assembly, stiffness, and tollerance