I hate tripods.

The design is based on a balanced arm lamp I have in my office. This prototype is at a point where I’m going to use it for a while before making adjustments to the model, but it’s doing great for a proof of concept.

  • thecitywelivein@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    For the upper arm, will it eventually use all four springs or do you alternate the pair based on the direction you want it to lean?

    • DrumbeatF@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Originally I was using all four, but after working with it a bit and changing the springs orientations I found it worked well with just the one set. I’ve left the other two in case I change my mind :)

      Now you’ve got me thinking of some sort of quick release system for switching these in case I do want the lean direction to change… That would be super useful.

    • DrumbeatF@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I know this is way later and doesn’t really matter, but I really liked your idea and thought about it for a while.

      I ended up coming up with this spring “quick caps” for quickly moving, rearranging, or de-tensioning them for maintenance and it has really improved how the whole boom operates.

      Anyway, thanks for the idea!

      • thecitywelivein@lemm.eeEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Those quick releases look great. Simple solutions are sometimes the hardest thing to come up with.