04 04 2011 This am stroke/gather prob You can see where Wht f'd up in the sky... Like I said I have that isolated. Turning day into night! Indeed! It was a nice color a little blue a little green and a bunch o'black. I loaded two extra white syringes. I noticed that the paint order is not the same ...
03 02 2011 The new RGB -> HSV -> paint mixer code is implemented. I also patched in the "long stroke" fix you may or may not recall... My to do looks like this: * define a paint mix for cyan * define the maximum units a syringe holds * define max units paint a palette holds * verify Z max, ...
01-07-2010 Painting a Dog Named Woofers With New Paint Mixer Once the new paint mixer was installed a shake down of the system was in order. We began a series of tests for the machine and our painting processes. 01-11-2010 Vangobot 3 plans sent out for fabrication bid 01-15-2010 Monday finish bom to a point I cam get some bids on ...
11-17-2009 Paint Mixer 2 Switch to Syringes Thank god we are rural... the local tractor mart had a whole bin 60ml syringes for .99 opening is the same size as smaller syringes 11-17-2009 Paint Mixer Test with Syringes The big ones are double drops the others are 5, 7, 10 and 12.5 11-18-2009 So far I am getting consistent small ...
10-08-2009 Paint Mixer 2 Installation 10-09-2009 Paint mixer 2 Installation On to wiring 10-12-2009 Made some unplanned changes. We no longer are hooked up to water. We will use the sump tank as resivoir to flow water through the brush tank. I am going to wire in switch that turns the pump on when the B is forward. I ...
08-27-2009 Paint mixer 2 progress Got the pistons finished yesterday started on the heads today. Had to change the design a bit those thread caps weren't cutting it. Good news is that we can use unthreaded pipe as a result. I am sticking with nipples for this one since the shafts are finished for the 6 ...
08-14-2009 Vangobot 2 discussing paint delivery system I am trying to get away from air and valves. This is plunger similar to a screw valve controlled by a reversible motor. Knowing the RPM's of the motor threads per inch of the screw and the volume of the chamber we could totally meter the amount of paint ...
06-06-2009 Continued trouble with paint delivery I've spent the morning reading about high viscosity fluid dispensing any thing off the shelf is way out of our league were talking 600 plus bucks for screw valves that can lay out a drop or bead of paste down to .0375ml. So I started reading through patents and I found ...
Conveyor- I was on track until noon then it was a battle the rest of the day. Conveyor turned under power and when I poured water on it it stayed In the trough. I take that as a score. I hoped to be wiring tomorrow am... might be later in the day. 04-18-2009Photo shows palette, ...
Palette conveyor assembly .. a belt is attached on top of this device. The belt is seen in the background of the photo. Mixed paint from the color engine lands on the palette. The palette moved forward to a clean zone when a new color is needed. Sponges and a water ...