Remade the whiffletree rods for a third time, now with teeny tiny little M2x0.4 threaded holes to accept shoulder screws. Easier assembly, easier disassembly, and much better perpendicularity than the press-fit crossbars with snap ring solution.
Now I just need to make the frame supports for the output rods, and I can finally see if this thing is going to work. But not tonight, I don't think.
@MLE_online It's for a device to automatically drill holes in a cellular automata, by mechanically reading the three holes in the previous row and letting a drill descend fully or not based on a programming plate. It makes sense in my head, but kind of hard to explain. It'll be a meaty video, for sure! There is an animated rendering here to give a basic idea of this part of the mechanism: https://clacks.link/@attoparsec/111427650586601439
@MLE_online But this part is a mechanical digital to analog converter, turning the binary code of the presence or absence of three holes into an output rod moving to 1 of 8 different positions.
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