Rob sent along the L-brackets, which was great because there was no way I could have got these here!
When painting I masked out the bearings; Rob says it doesn't hurt to go ahead and spray them but I was feeling cautious.
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It took me most of a day to paint and put together but here it is.
The only things that might be of interest to others with this build is my jury-rigged electronic setup.
I was going to be triggering this electronically and running both cameras tethered and with mains power. With my one-camera setup I've been using one of these USB foot switches to trigger the shots (called HID switches because they use USB Human Interface Device protocols).
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I wanted a trigger switch on the handle rather than a footswitch so I considered ripping out the electronics and wiring them in but they were 'encapsulated' in hot glue. Nasty.
Instead I've ended up taking the innards out of a PSU, USB hub, and USB gamepad and splicing them into a hacky electronics box for the scanner. I also wired the lights in so they can run off the same switch.
- Here's the hardware
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- Ripped up...
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- And put back together (sort of).
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For now I'm using JoyToKey to translate the gamepad button into a hotkey. One of these days I'll build joystick/gamepad support into ScanManager.
- Joy2Key
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I ended up using a microswitch; it's not pretty but it's the only thing I could find at Maplin that has decent force and travel and a nice positive response.
- The switch
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I'll try to post a video of it working with ScanManager soon.
