{"id":13423,"date":"2025-04-13T00:29:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T00:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=13423"},"modified":"2025-04-13T00:29:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T00:29:57","slug":"winter-warmth-shitty-servos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=13423","title":{"rendered":"Winter Warmth &#038; Shitty Servos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I launched another big plot, it was a 7 day one, I swapped the servo motor for the occasion to reset the pen up\/down cycles it would have, but that was a bad idea. I think I&#8217;ve learned it&#8217;s better to stick with a lucky servo that keeps performing. And so on day 5, the new servo failed. So I stopped things early, the plot still looks pretty good, you might recognize it from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/for-all-its-imperfections\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2613-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2613-830x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13424\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bellow is the unfortunate artifact of a pen that doesn&#8217;t go off the paper. Another interesting thing I&#8217;ve learned from these large deployments, is that the slight misalignment I keep having from one plot to the next, but not enough to be a real bother, I think is due to the paper or the belts loosening over the days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2615-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2615-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13425\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An so I bought a couple of very premium servos, it&#8217;s time to get hardware in line with the ambition. I&#8217;m hoping they&#8217;ll make a difference. They better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-12-at-7.55.44\u202fPM.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-12-at-7.55.44\u202fPM-291x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13426\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I launched another big plot, it was a 7 day one, I swapped the servo motor for the occasion to reset the pen up\/down cycles it would have, but that was a bad idea. I think I&#8217;ve learned it&#8217;s better to stick with a lucky servo that keeps performing. And so on day 5, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=13423\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Winter Warmth &#038; Shitty Servos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}