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Saturday 14th July 2007
Now that the wheel shafts were built, I decided to work on how I
was going to mount the motors to the robot's base plate. Both the front and
rear of the motor needed to be fixed somehow so that it could support the
weight of the robot while also taking the rotational torque.
The front of the motor conveniently had some tapped holes in
it that made making a mounting bracket nice and easy. I simple secured a short
length of angle iron to the front using a couple of bolts, and the job was
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Supporting the back of the motors was not going to be so
easy since there were no obvious mounting holes to use. After of bit of head
scratching I decided to make a clamp type mechanism using some 10mm wide strips
of metal and some studding. |
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Here are the two supports before being fixed to the base
plate. |
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