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Affordable brushless motors are great for a variety of motion applications, but often require a gearbox to tame their speed. [Michael Rechtin] decided to try his hand at designing a …read more Continue reading Stackable 3D-Printed Gearbox For Brushless Motor
A press is a useful thing to have, whether you like destroying stuff or you simply want to properly install some bearings. [Retsetman] decided to build one from scratch, eschewing …read more Continue reading 3D-Printed Gear Press Can Squash Stuff, Kinda
What do you do when you buy a broken shredder and, upon disassembly, find its gears in pieces? You might reach towards your 3D printer – this one’s not that …read more Continue reading Shredder Rebuilt From The Ashes, Aims To Produce More Ashes
While wheels might seem like a foundational technology, they do have one major flaw: they typically need maintained roads in order to work. Anyone who has experience driving a Jeep …read more Continue reading Tracked RC Vehicle is (Mostly) 3D Printed
Interfacing technology and electronics with the real world is often fairly tricky. Complexity and edge cases work their way in to every corner of a project like this; just ask …read more Continue reading Autonomous Mower Hits Snag
When it comes to making gearboxes, 3D printing has the benefit that it lets you whip up whatever strange gears you might need without a whole lot of hunting around …read more Continue reading Resin-Printed Gears Versus PLA: Which Is Tougher?
For many DIY hardware projects, the most movement it’s likely to see is when we pick the assembled unit up off the workbench and carry it to wherever it’s destined …read more Continue reading Keynote Video: Jeremy Fielding Wants To Help You Get Moving
[Skyentific] is looking to push the hobbyist robotics state of the art. Motors and their gears, the actuators, are typically the most expensive part. For his build, he realised he …read more Continue reading Cheap Big Servo For Robot Arm
The automatic transmission in your average automobile can be a complicated, hydraulic-y thing full of spooky fluids and many spinning parts. However, simpler designs for “automatic” gearboxes exist, like this …read more Continue reading A Simple LEGO Automatic Transmission
Placing two motors together in a shared drive is a simple enough task. By using something like a chain or a belt to couple them, or even placing them on …read more Continue reading Differential Drive Doesn’t Quite Work As Expected