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MikeO
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Posted: 01:49am 07 Jun 2016

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My wife is a textile artist and is very keen on wet felting unfortunately part of the process usually involves hand rolling the felts together which is rather hard on the back, so when it was suggested I build a rolling machine, well I was up in the "back shed" in a flash, initiating the design process! Of course mine was never going to have a motor controlled by just a switch it had to be a little more sophisticated than that and had to involve a "mite". I used one of those IBT-2 H bridge modules which also has a current sense output which allowed me to provide some indication of the roller pressure by measuring the change in motor load current. Here is a rather poorly created video I made to show the project in operation.
Felt roller

MikeEdited by MikeO 2016-06-08

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Posted: 06:37am 07 Jun 2016

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Looks like a very neat machine there Mike!

Any chance of seeing the wife's 'output' as to what this machine can produce (I am curious now).

Geoffg

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Posted: 11:40am 07 Jun 2016

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Great machine and an excellent use of a Micromite - that is exactly the sort of application that I envisioned when I started on it. You also made a good job of the LCD opening in the plastic box... not easy.

I bet your wife is pleased, that would make life so easy compared to hand rolling.

Geoff

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MikeO
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Posted: 01:50pm 07 Jun 2016

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Thanks Geoff, I am quite pleased with how this project has developed. I have to say though the Micromite has made the control side of things so easy, it is so easy to develop code yet sophisticated in its ability and instruction set, really clever things can now be accomplished. Thanks to yourself and others for creating the Micromite.

Regards the box, I have a small CNC milling machine so cutting clean holes in lids etc is relatively simple. All the other plastic fabrications are also made on the CNC even the prototype PCB was isolation milled!

Thanks for your encouragement. Mike

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