Are those LEGO-compatible axles?
Yes! 🤓
Just yesterday youtube showed me this video and I thought to myself what a waste it is to use 30 servos for a project like this:
https://youtu.be/YQLStT4RXVo?si=wXzEu28u1hp5dKQr
Your solution is so much cooler.
This video was the inspiration for my project!
Yep. I thought of this video as well!
This is a much better engineering solution. Only requires 4 motors.
I’m testing a geneva drive (you can see it in the front in the photo), that should allow me to reduce the number of motors even further. I think I can get it down to two, maybe even one.
Wow, never occurred to me before, but this is such an elegant, and simple solution.
Awesomeness. Please show us a video of the end result!!
Genious idea! Now all you have to do is print the segments in a transparent plastic, black the complete front, and backlight the module.
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