9/16/2026 - 8th Update!

hey! it’s 12:22 AM, we are back earlier than yesterday but not as early as i would’ve hoped, but that’s alright!

ok, yesterday’s updatelog has been moved over, time to get to the cad! a quick check on what we need to work on:

• MOST - base and side heights (obviously)
• MOST - z lift (what!) (since this is super influential in the amount of space we get)
• SOME - corexy (upper layer stuff) (needed before tool stuff)
  • motor positions! (this influences docking area spaces)
• NONE - tool base and docking area
• NONE - compact
• SOME - main electronics area

well, let’s get to it!

ok, i need to think of what the belt path looks like, we have the switch back stuff towards the front, of course, but for the back? i guess id probably just use a bearing to push it to the center, since i do need to consider im trying to fit this in a really tight space

can we just put the bearings inside the motors shafts (shh) (not a bad idea except its probably a bad idea)

so uh. we have a ton of geometry fixes to do. right now, theres not enough space in the middle, and the only real way to fix that is to stack the corexy stuff on top of the linear rods, not to the side (there literally just isnt enough space at that point.) it might sacrifice a bit of height but it’ll be able to have around 2.6cm extra space on the x direction

seems like it’ll sacrifice roughly 0.7cm? but again, the stuff would be higher up so that might also cancel things out

so uh. i think i gotta just redesign the whole thing at this point

i think i might use thinner rods for this, idk, just a thought

so uh, on second thought, how am i gonna make the belt go through a rod… (you go around it!)

very good news! turns out, the calculations were a bit wonky, and now we should have like 9cm of height? maybe?

this looks pretty decent for the pulleys?

so yeah, that’s the current status of things! sorted out the lift stuff (i think?), and did some of the pulley stuff (so that we can add belts pretty quickly)! after that is probably tool base work?

just remembered that the belts on a different layer (as in, its above), so fixed that and made it a bit more compact!

reminder to self to add a tensioner at some point

ok, stuff got updated, not too much changed, mostly just small fixes and changes here and there

well, it’s 2:08 AM, a decent amount of stuff done today, i don’t think that we’re exactly done yet, so we are now technically falling behind schedule, but we’ll see how much can get done by the end of saturday? anyways, yeah, that said, good night!