Recycling ABS… didn’t work
I had sorted all the plastic of the vacuum cleaner enclosures by type earlier and visited precious plastic in Malmö today again. We had planned to shred the ABS part…
28. May 2019
Tenok is finished!
I can proudly present Tenok – the adaptive vacuum cleaner! Those are some impressions of the finished prototype, no. 2
27. May 2019
Assembly of the second prototype starts!
Usually assembling something for the second time is much faster, but this assembly is going to be special because I will document each and every step so I can make…
24. May 2019
All parts printed!
Today I finished printing all the redesigned parts, so assembly of the second prototype can start soon!
12. May 2019
no-cost DIY printer enclosure
I want to make sure that the parts can be printed with low-cost desktop 3D-printers. The Prusa i3 design (and its derivatives) is the most widely used one on the…
8. May 2019
Meltdown test!
After verifying that the first prototype works better than expected, I decided to run a ‘meltdown-test‘ by letting the vacuum cleaner run with half and full power with the floor-head…
30. April 2019
Evaluation & To-do list for the next Prototype
Putting the prototype together already worked better than expected, but it also showed me room for improvement. I decided to:01.) Replace PLA by PETG, which is more flexible and heat…
29. April 2019
First Prototype!
https://youtu.be/s4RKR85wxE0 I am happy to announce that the first (beta) prototype of the adaptive vacuum cleaner is up and running!
28. April 2019
Houston, we have a box!
Yesterday I glued together the wooden enclosure and am very happy with the result. However I also discovered an issue that I should fix in the next prototype: To keep…
16. April 2019
Printing progress
At the moment I am designing the adaptive vacuum cleaner, so I am not posting updates so frequently here. There are still many things to work out, but I am…
7. April 2019