A successful attempt at making a larger work area for the OFM. The third prototype is based around a custom main body, which was made by editing the STL - “grabbing” the table and stretching everything up. For most of its time, this was a high resolution microscope. Today I switched the parts up and made it an upright version. The placement of the objective under the table limits movement a lot, while the condenser is a lot smaller. With the current setup, it’s possible to move it side-to-side around 25mm. Front to back is still limited - by the sample clips and the upright column. It uses the SKR Pico and the NEMA steppers. The changes in the latest V3 alpha server software meant some background coding changes were needed, which means scanning is currently disabled (no coordinates are being passed to the OFM server). I’ll be handling that next. Also, this version will be “upgraded” with a DC socket which will allow powering it using a power brick, rather than having to use a lab power supply, like the previous prototypes.
And here it is jogging
