{"id":166,"date":"2022-06-16T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T12:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piwars22.donstechstuff.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2022-06-16T13:21:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T17:21:44","slug":"trough-filling-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piwars22.donstechstuff.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Trough filling strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Filling a Cattle Trough\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/55_c-mpNj7g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So after our earlier discovery that rice is indeed heavy, we re-thought our strategy for delivery.  We now use 3 bins that rotate on a turntable.  This way the mass is concentrated over the wheels instead of in front of the wheels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each bin is filled with enough rice to fill a bin half-way, plus 20%.  Each bin has a servo-operated trap door at the bottom that allows the rice to be delivered all in one big &#8220;gush&#8221;.  The turntable is driven by a small stepper motor, geared down by 4x so it can handle the necessary torque (did i mention that rice is heavy???).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Code and OpenSCAD files will be posted soon-ish.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after our earlier discovery that rice is indeed heavy, we re-thought our strategy for delivery. We now use 3 bins that rotate on a turntable. This way the mass is concentrated over the wheels instead of in front of the wheels. Each bin is filled with enough rice to fill a bin half-way, plus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piwars22.donstechstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/piwars22.donstechstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/piwars22.donstechstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piwars22.donstechstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piwars22.donstechstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/piwars22.donstechstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/piwars22.donstechstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piwars22.donstechstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piwars22.donstechstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piwars22.donstechstuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}