Hello people...
I need some ideas as to how to animate my turrets on the Manxman.. Dont think I want to use Arduino, too much involved and a lot of wires..
I was thinking of using geared pulleys with some sort of mini timing belt. If I can somehow fix the pulleys to the servo I think it could work... I need to make sure that I can get to the servos should anything go wrong with them, hense why I dont want to use direct drive.. I could use the traditional method of arms and bent control rods I know. but I dont think I can get the rotation I want,, if I fit a larger toothed pulley onto the servo and a smaller one say half the size, in my head this would make the smaller one turn twice the rotation of the servo..
The trouble is , im having a hard time locating such pulleys and belts.. obviously the belts need to be narrow as there is not going to be much in the way of pressure to turn, Im going to run a shaft from each turret through two small bearings fixed in place to give extra smooth turning.
So does anyone know where or who I can talk too or look for bits etc... or does anyone have any better ideas??
some help would be great.
Cheers Ian
