Haven taken some time off from work for the Christmas holiday season, I am back in the saddle of building/designing my robot. Hereby the fruits of my labor for the first week. The efforts so far have been in optimizing the design for printing and assembly. This mostly involved foreseeing problems, correcting them, printing, finding […]
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