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=='''Day 10'' '''''New!'''''==
Date: 6/10/15 through 6/16/15<br />
Time spent: ~15-20 hours idr
These "Days" are actually getting dumb because I'm posting like per-week progress at this point lol.
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I think I've been getting lazy with the posts. This is basically a week of progress in one post.
===Cannon Mechanization===
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 140.jpg|thumb|right|Arm cannon barrel stabilizer]]
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 141.jpg|thumb|right|Shot of loosely fit together barrel, motor and housing]]
So this one will be interesting. I went through like three phases over the past week for this so I'll write about it as if I'm going through it.
To be quite honest, the task of actually creating the mechanized turrets was (and still is) a bit of a daunting task. It's been forever since I've worked with circuits and kinematics and I've never had to worry about the finer numbers with cosplay before. That said, the best way to get used to something is generally just diving in head first so... well, I started with what I could figure out and got started.
The first thing I did was done on day 9. This was actually attaching the servo motor to the PVC's cross-section. With that done, I had to figure out how to mount and house the motor and moving components in the turret's casing itself. This was relatively simple as all I did was get a thinner PVC that slid into the existing turret barrels and could move freely. This is shown in the images to the right.
With that done, I had to actually construct the casing for the cannons to house the components into.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 143.jpg|Diagram of turret side walls
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 144.jpg|Cutout
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 145.jpg|Cover of arm cannon
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 146.jpg|Bottom of arm cannon's turret with barrel pieces mounted into place.
</gallery>
That done, I decided to work on the control grip which would house the buttons which would be connected to the circuit board. This would be accomplished quite elegantly by sliding a smaller PVC pipe into a larger one that fit snugly and cutting each pipe in a specific manner as shown to the right.
This ended up working really well because of the heights of the buttons and the thickness of the PVC walls. It ended up being a snug fit and they're quite comfortable.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 147.jpg|right|The control grip with the buttons will be enclosed in this.
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 148.jpg|Holes screwed into smaller PVC and buttons bolted in
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 149.jpg|Underside
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 150.jpg|Larger PVC piece slid on top
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 151.jpg|Buttons barely poke out, making for a comfortable press
</gallery>
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 152.jpg|thumb|right|Turret rotation motor mounted]]
This done, I still had the motor which would rotate the cannon left and right to mount. This would be simply mounted to the roof of the cannon's casing and attached once again to the cross-section of a PVC.
With all these parts now ready, I wired them up to the circuit board and tried it out.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 153.jpg|Breadboard with turret wiring
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 154.jpg|Control grip wired
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 156.jpg|Shot of multiple components
</gallery>
Now wired up, I decided to give it a spin and powered up the arduino and whatnot. After some difficulties, I realized that the thing was nigh impossible to actually use because of the way the center pipe was mounted on the servo motor and it was causing too much sheer force and bending it. This was with the PVC naively attached to the servo as-is and expecting to move the entire turret by simply "holding" the pipe in-place.
Going back to the drawing board and trying to resolve the issue, I figured that the primary issue here was that there was
*Too much sheer force along the pipe and it was difficult for the motor to overcome it.
*Too unstable and wobbly
*Too much pressure on the bottom of the turret and the board that acted as the base (The friction between the rotating portion and the stationary portion)
**This part was caused because I was originally holding the PVC pipe in-place by adding a horizontal dowel through the PVC and keeping it stationary via... well, applying pressure upwards.
To overcome this, I decided to stop using the horizontal dowel and instead use this handy thing.
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 161.jpg|thumb|3/4" steel floor pipe flange and matching 3/4" threaded PVC]]
Meet the might floor flange. It's made of metal and it's heavy! Though honestly, this was a good investment I believe because holy shit this is sturdy as hell. I'll just add a gallery for now for the various layers and processes I did with this.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 164.jpg|Base of cannon being reinforced with basswood.
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 165.jpg|Other side
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 166.jpg|Example of how floor flange will connect
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 167.jpg|Different shot
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 168.jpg|Attached to the motor
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 169.jpg|Support pieces sliding in
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 170.jpg|Arm cannon base sliding on
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 171.jpg|Some leeway left for nuts and washers
</gallery>
That done, I thought I was basically set and could go ahead and power the whole thing and go WHREEEEEEEE and have fun. Unfortunately, the motors were still very weak and the turrets moved slowly. After trying to figure out the issue for a good two hours of fiddling with the circuit and googling, I finally figured out that I'm a complete dumbass and that I came '''very''' close to frying my entire Arduino and $50 worth of motors. Turns out my power supplies and various numbers were completely off and I had to completely redo everything and buy another $50 of electronics between batteries, adapters and components. Whee.
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 191.png|thumb|Circuit diagram of redone circuit]]
So yeah, we'll see where this goes when my stuff comes in this week.
===Shin/Leg Armor===
So yeah, this is the thing the leg torpedoes are stuck to. I hate this part the most. Fuck.
So I've linked this page before, but I suggest just looking at the "Construction" page for [http://amethyst-angel.com/armormaking.html this website] ''FIRST'', THEN looking at my images cuz it's probably easier to read that then me explain it.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 182.jpg|Different angle
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 162.jpg|Craft foam being glued into shape of shin guard
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 163.jpg|Different angle
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 172.jpg|Shin armor frame made of craft foam
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 177.jpg|Shin armor
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 178.jpg|Laying out styrene coating and taking measurements
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 179.jpg|Styrene layer hot-glued on
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 180.jpg|Hot gluing further pieces of craft foam to other sections of shin
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 181.jpg|Top piece with styrene coating applied
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 182.jpg|Different angle
</gallery>
===Torpedo Rack===
This is fun stuff. As in not fun stuff. I'm starting to get incredibly lazy. Have a gallery.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 174.jpg|Torpedo rack holes
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 175.jpg|other side
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 176.jpg|Torpedo rack base
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 183.jpg|Torpedo rack under construction
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 184.jpg|Everything but side panels applied
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 185.jpg|Shot of torpedo rack from top
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 186.jpg|From back
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 187.jpg|Underside
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 188.jpg|Example of torpedo rack mounted on leg. Not stabilized or tightly secured
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 189.jpg|Spacing between shin armor pieces to fit torpedo rack. Need to make this gap smaller.
</gallery>
</div>
Date: 6/10/15 through 6/16/15<br />
Time spent: ~15-20 hours idr
These "Days" are actually getting dumb because I'm posting like per-week progress at this point lol.
<span class="mw-customtoggle-furutaka-day11" style="border:1px solid blue; border-radius: 5px;padding:5px">Show/Hide Day 11</span>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-furutaka-day11">
I think I've been getting lazy with the posts. This is basically a week of progress in one post.
===Cannon Mechanization===
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 140.jpg|thumb|right|Arm cannon barrel stabilizer]]
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 141.jpg|thumb|right|Shot of loosely fit together barrel, motor and housing]]
So this one will be interesting. I went through like three phases over the past week for this so I'll write about it as if I'm going through it.
To be quite honest, the task of actually creating the mechanized turrets was (and still is) a bit of a daunting task. It's been forever since I've worked with circuits and kinematics and I've never had to worry about the finer numbers with cosplay before. That said, the best way to get used to something is generally just diving in head first so... well, I started with what I could figure out and got started.
The first thing I did was done on day 9. This was actually attaching the servo motor to the PVC's cross-section. With that done, I had to figure out how to mount and house the motor and moving components in the turret's casing itself. This was relatively simple as all I did was get a thinner PVC that slid into the existing turret barrels and could move freely. This is shown in the images to the right.
With that done, I had to actually construct the casing for the cannons to house the components into.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 143.jpg|Diagram of turret side walls
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 144.jpg|Cutout
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 145.jpg|Cover of arm cannon
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 146.jpg|Bottom of arm cannon's turret with barrel pieces mounted into place.
</gallery>
That done, I decided to work on the control grip which would house the buttons which would be connected to the circuit board. This would be accomplished quite elegantly by sliding a smaller PVC pipe into a larger one that fit snugly and cutting each pipe in a specific manner as shown to the right.
This ended up working really well because of the heights of the buttons and the thickness of the PVC walls. It ended up being a snug fit and they're quite comfortable.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 147.jpg|right|The control grip with the buttons will be enclosed in this.
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 148.jpg|Holes screwed into smaller PVC and buttons bolted in
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 149.jpg|Underside
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 150.jpg|Larger PVC piece slid on top
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 151.jpg|Buttons barely poke out, making for a comfortable press
</gallery>
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 152.jpg|thumb|right|Turret rotation motor mounted]]
This done, I still had the motor which would rotate the cannon left and right to mount. This would be simply mounted to the roof of the cannon's casing and attached once again to the cross-section of a PVC.
With all these parts now ready, I wired them up to the circuit board and tried it out.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 153.jpg|Breadboard with turret wiring
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 154.jpg|Control grip wired
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 156.jpg|Shot of multiple components
</gallery>
Now wired up, I decided to give it a spin and powered up the arduino and whatnot. After some difficulties, I realized that the thing was nigh impossible to actually use because of the way the center pipe was mounted on the servo motor and it was causing too much sheer force and bending it. This was with the PVC naively attached to the servo as-is and expecting to move the entire turret by simply "holding" the pipe in-place.
Going back to the drawing board and trying to resolve the issue, I figured that the primary issue here was that there was
*Too much sheer force along the pipe and it was difficult for the motor to overcome it.
*Too unstable and wobbly
*Too much pressure on the bottom of the turret and the board that acted as the base (The friction between the rotating portion and the stationary portion)
**This part was caused because I was originally holding the PVC pipe in-place by adding a horizontal dowel through the PVC and keeping it stationary via... well, applying pressure upwards.
To overcome this, I decided to stop using the horizontal dowel and instead use this handy thing.
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 161.jpg|thumb|3/4" steel floor pipe flange and matching 3/4" threaded PVC]]
Meet the might floor flange. It's made of metal and it's heavy! Though honestly, this was a good investment I believe because holy shit this is sturdy as hell. I'll just add a gallery for now for the various layers and processes I did with this.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 164.jpg|Base of cannon being reinforced with basswood.
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 165.jpg|Other side
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 166.jpg|Example of how floor flange will connect
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 167.jpg|Different shot
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 168.jpg|Attached to the motor
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 169.jpg|Support pieces sliding in
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 170.jpg|Arm cannon base sliding on
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 171.jpg|Some leeway left for nuts and washers
</gallery>
That done, I thought I was basically set and could go ahead and power the whole thing and go WHREEEEEEEE and have fun. Unfortunately, the motors were still very weak and the turrets moved slowly. After trying to figure out the issue for a good two hours of fiddling with the circuit and googling, I finally figured out that I'm a complete dumbass and that I came '''very''' close to frying my entire Arduino and $50 worth of motors. Turns out my power supplies and various numbers were completely off and I had to completely redo everything and buy another $50 of electronics between batteries, adapters and components. Whee.
[[File:Furutaka Kai Ni 191.png|thumb|Circuit diagram of redone circuit]]
So yeah, we'll see where this goes when my stuff comes in this week.
===Shin/Leg Armor===
So yeah, this is the thing the leg torpedoes are stuck to. I hate this part the most. Fuck.
So I've linked this page before, but I suggest just looking at the "Construction" page for [http://amethyst-angel.com/armormaking.html this website] ''FIRST'', THEN looking at my images cuz it's probably easier to read that then me explain it.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 182.jpg|Different angle
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 162.jpg|Craft foam being glued into shape of shin guard
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 163.jpg|Different angle
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 172.jpg|Shin armor frame made of craft foam
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 177.jpg|Shin armor
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 178.jpg|Laying out styrene coating and taking measurements
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 179.jpg|Styrene layer hot-glued on
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 180.jpg|Hot gluing further pieces of craft foam to other sections of shin
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 181.jpg|Top piece with styrene coating applied
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 182.jpg|Different angle
</gallery>
===Torpedo Rack===
This is fun stuff. As in not fun stuff. I'm starting to get incredibly lazy. Have a gallery.
<gallery widths="250px" heights="200px">
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 174.jpg|Torpedo rack holes
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 175.jpg|other side
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 176.jpg|Torpedo rack base
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 183.jpg|Torpedo rack under construction
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 184.jpg|Everything but side panels applied
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 185.jpg|Shot of torpedo rack from top
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 186.jpg|From back
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 187.jpg|Underside
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 188.jpg|Example of torpedo rack mounted on leg. Not stabilized or tightly secured
File:Furutaka Kai Ni 189.jpg|Spacing between shin armor pieces to fit torpedo rack. Need to make this gap smaller.
</gallery>
</div>