Sunday, February 02, 2025
Maus C prototype with all 3 axes
I've refined the X & Y mounts a bit, and had a crack at mounting the Z axis. That allowed testing of the X & Y axes with a calibration slide, which worked nicely on the Y axis, but not as well on the X (that axis driver is slightly suspect) through whatever it was doing was repeatable. A rotation of about 20 microns off-axis was observed at 500 microns deflection, which I will live with for now.
The whole thing still fits under the binocular microscope, but the USB microscope is better for getting an overall view of the build area and tracking movement as I do not have good USB optics on the binocular microscope. I might make a mount for the USB microscope just to make the whole thing more integrated.
Next step though is to install the ground probe and test out the Z axis a bit.
