My colleagues and I have been pulling parts off of a busted Xerox and wow, what a gold mine! I’ve got one of the heaviest stepper motors I’ve seen, a motor with a built in encoder and a whole pile of other goodies. Gears, pulleys, belts, wiring harnesses, an LCD screen, a miniature air pump/compressor? It was just chock full of stuff that a guy like me can really sink his teeth into. Metaphorically of course…
The god news is I’ve got a bunch of great stuff to start my junk pile. The bad news is that my wife will be unimpressed if she find out that I’ve started a junk pile. Good thing she never reads this blog 
For those wondering about the robot build, I’ve been pre-occupied with working on my thesis as of late. That has meant a slowdown in my side projects. As expected I haven’t even had time to set up my band saw yet. Once I have that set up I can start working on the mounts for the bearings that will hold the hubs. Then I can figure out just how much play I can work with in the hubs. So if you’re waiting for robot updates they will come. It may just take a while.
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1 Barry Cox // Sep 25, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Congrats, you are well on your way to becoming Sanford & Son. If you run out of things to dismantle there is plenty of things that you can have at my house that don’t work.
2 Marc // Sep 26, 2007 at 9:42 am
Thanks for the offer Barry. I’m sure I’ll have my hands full around here