PORTAL TURRET CUTE PLUS

There simply wasn't enough room to have the wires com from the side. One of the micro servo's needs to be modified so it has the wires com from the bottom instead of the side. Most screws screw directly into the plastic, reducing the amount of nuts needed. The first thing to do is to tap all of the M3 holes with an ordinary M3 screw or bolt. Most of the assembly is too complicated to explain in just words, but the pictures also do a great part of the explaining. With all the parts printed it's time to assemble the turret.

Turret eye swivel V2 (in clear plastic) Īll of these parts required about 20 hours to print on my UP! at 0.3mm layer thickness.

Turret eye swivel pan (in clear plastic).

I has served me well the last year.įor a complete turret you will need the following parts:

PORTAL TURRET CUTE PLUS

I used my UP Plus 3D printer that I won last year at the UP2013 contest. For the turret you will need a 3D printer of at least 120mm x 120mm x 120mm (roughly 5'x5'x5') that is comfortable with support material. I take great care to design things that require as little support as possible, but in some cases splitting up the design into even more pieces is too much additional trouble. For this you will need (you'll never expect this.) a 3D printer. (Reference image to the right made by: Tyler Garrison, for another turret project by CitizenSnips and modified by me to show the flaws in the turret's original design) All in all the design took between 40 and 60 hours (I don't really track the time). Then this part was cut up into smaller pieces and mechanisms were added to make the guns and eye move. First the turret was designed in one piece in Solidworks to get the design right. The rest of the design was only a matter of time.

There is some space there now to place electronics if you can manage to make them small enough. After I built mine i did a last wave of improvements where I hollowed out the top of the turret. The solution was a compromise where the turret only moves and doesn't open.Īlso the design doesn't include a real space for the electronics (as seen in all the photos and videos). There simply is no room to have a turret with all movement that can also open and close. The issue is (as you can see in the images) that the guns of the turret almost touch each other when the turret is closed. It is because the turret does things that are not physically possible.Īt first I wanted to make this turret so it could open and close as well. Not because there are no reference images or because the turret is that difficult in its design. The design was the the hardest part of this project.

Portal turret cute