Snow’s not bad. It’s when it rains on top of the snow. That sucks.
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I think I am back in business with a fixed Z stub. Or I would be if I weren’t going for a minor upgrade.
All the electronics were hanging on board that had a janky mount onto the back strut plate. It had also fallen off and I could probably reattach it but it really needs a better mount.
So I’ll re-cut all the strut plates from 1/4" mdf this time (instead of 1/8" hardboard) and plan a bit of extra height on the back to mount the electronics directly.
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Will be good to see that machine back in operation.
Excellent!
I am thinking I don’t need to replace the front and bottom strut plates. It feels like a lot of work for minimal benefit.
But I love this new back plate. Now I have plenty of room to mount everything, and I can fashion a dust cover too, whereas previously everything was barely hanging on.
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#idex lovers, here we go!!!
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Powered it on for the first time and so far it looks like everything works (not fully wired). Octopus board powers Pi no problem, talks to octopus board, no issues.
I had forgotten that I set up the Pi with a read-only filesystem with RAM overlay so I can yank power with impunity. I have had very bad luck in the past suddenly cutting power to a Pi.
All I need now is to redesign the bracket for the fixed end of the drag chains.
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That is a silver lining.
That is a very good solution. We used to have some linux boxes in a semi-permanent installation and we did that. We added some simple command line scripts to make it read/write and back to read-only. It was very convenient. And we had more confidence junior engineers hadn’t broken something.
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