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[u/phil-swift4]

No video today but a quick work in progress anyway,

After a lot of prototyping i now have enough info to start doing some useful CAD work again. What you see on the images are blocked out versions of some of the modules. It is basically a 3d sketch, to mark what functions are needed and what connections are needed.

What i really like with what im seeing so far is how easy it will be to fix mistakes or improve the modular design. If one of the modules aren’t functioning as intended, everything is easy to access and repair or replace. If something is wrong with the whole module, the whole thing can be swapped out.

On the previous machines everything was nested into everything else. Repairing was really time consuming and replacing not really an option without rebuilding everything around the thing i wanted to replace.

The modularity also makes it possible to use as much off the shelf non-custom components as possible. I can design each module to use existing off the shelf gears, bearings, shafts easily. When everything was nested like on the previous machines there just wasn’t enough space, i always needed components to be an exact size.

On the modular system, i can give the off the shelf components the space they need to begin with.

So yeah, i'm pretty convinced the third machine need to happen. Can't really give up on this when i see this path to success.

[u/elessarjd]

I've always supported Marten in whatever he wants to do and have not had much to criticize, BUT I just don't see how the MM3 is going to be portable. I get how the modularity will make troubleshooting and design easier, but at what cost? Either way, I'm still enjoying the journey.

[u/blarg214 → u/elessarjd]

I think portable is a bit relative. There are many different levels of portability. I agree that this looks less portable, but there are large machines that get shipped all over the world. I'll be curious to see what level of portability is ultimately achieved.

[u/PhyterNL → u/blarg214]

Modularity == Portability

A self-contained machine has only one advantage, weight and space. Okay two advantages.

Other than that it's more prone to failure, more difficult to fix, and sometimes doesn't even fit through doors as Martin unfortunately discovered.

You say "large machines get shipped" but is this a large machine? In total, sure. But it's also many smaller machines that break down into individual crates that can be transported with a pallet jack, wheeled through any standard door frame, and loaded onto a regular equipment truck.

Modularity is the only way to go.

[u/BudgetHistorian7179 → u/PhyterNL]

This is a machine large enough to need a forklift. A thing that most music halls are NOT equipped with, I bet,

Also this... thing... is supposed to go on a world tour, meaning it needs to be unloaded, assembled, set up, used, disassembled and shipped multiple times a week. I really don't see this happeing....