Another day of work and the Electric X²/2 is within a few hours more work of movable! Electric X²/2 is now the official project name, and it is a play on the original Sharper Image Electric X2. It’s not mathematically sound, but you shouldn’t be reading this page for mathematical discourse anyway.
Category: Snuffles
For “Snuffles” AKA “Electric X²/2”
It comes! And goes. And comes again!
What an exciting day. The ginormous brushless controller arrived from Hong Kong today, and it is ginormous indeed. In fact, it’s bigger than I had planned for, warranting a slight on-the-fly redesign of some of the structure. It also turned out to be quite troublesome – in that whichever sweatshop worker in Southeastern China assembled it was sufficiently drunk at the time to reverse the power input wires.. that is, red to – and black to +. This led to quite a harrowing adventure where I just barely manage to tie down the controller’s white, poofy soul.
And also some mechanical work.
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