Mounting the Circuit Board and Cable Management

With construction finished, the electronic components now. It was made based on the same design of the MDF aluminum frame having 6 holes on top for hexstands to be screwed into. This way the circuit board could be mounted using the hexstands and taken off easily if issues with programming, wiring etc happened in future. This mount is shown below:

Once this was mounted, all wires had to be simply plugged into the circuit. However, I already had concerns that interference in the wires primarily motor wires, relays and the photo interrupter cables would be an issue. Thus, I took care in separately the paths of wires making them neat to minimise noise, physical cable tangle, and simply for aesthetics. This was primarily done using duct tape and some flexible plastic tube for the X axis. For the thick shielded cable, small cable clamp like things were stuck to the slide of the legs simply by using the sticky side which came with it. Images of this and the system put together are below:

Next, the arduino code will be looked at and a number of changes will be introduced to improve efficiency and function in particular to the new design.