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(Now with working alt text) Of the paths local to me, about a three quarters *would* be accessibly to my chair but most of these otherwise accessible paths are deliberately blocked.

@Metals907 Sadly no. I pushed myself to the absolute limit doing this and didn't always have time or energy to photograph things as I went. I do have some footage, and I might try and piece them together into something coherent later, but for now I need to rest up and do some test driving.

@OrMakeOne 😍 I know you posted some of the updates along the way. Did you capture the build in pictures/video or have a thread that follows from start to completion?

WANDERER LIVES! Emotional day - when the original machine now reborn into this one suffered a catastrophic failure at the end of last summer, it was as if I'd had my wings clipped. Now drinking cider and listening to - fittingly enough - Mahler's "Resurrection" symphony.

@HighPlainsFella That's the goal. It's a rebuild of the one in my header photo after it suffered a catastrophic structural failure halfway up Great Shunner Fell at the end of last summer, but now slightly lighter, with improved ground clearance and centre of gravity and 50% more battery capacity.

@OrMakeOne Looks like a badass rambler!!

@SamRemfry Thanks. Not quite finished yet, and needs some test mileage to verify everything's working as it should be, but looking forward to actually getting out properly this summer. It's a rebuild of the one in my header image.

@OrMakeOne It looks absolutely brilliant..

@HomoPictor Looks wonderful.

May in Spain

A young all-terrain wheelchair's is not ridden at the start of it's training, but instead lead with a halter. Only once it has learned to accept commands will it be taught to accept the saddle. Note a little of the juvenile red colour remains; an adult's plumage is all silver.

@teaforpterosaur Oh sure, I can only think of 2 scenarios where I'd even consider making 7 dresses now I'm not trading. A) if they're ultra simple, perhaps Empire Line or something where they don't need much work. B) it gave me an excuse to inflict Late Bustle Era on defenceless bridesmaids.

@teaforpterosaur Such is the way of the dress*maker. *everything maker, really.

@EveExamines After a brief foray into going forwards and backwards correctly but steering in the opposite direction to commanded, I *think* I've got all the motors wired the right way round now. OEM wiring was all improvised and entirely unlabelled, so some guesswork required to reassemble.

@OrMakeOne 😩 Bummer! Wanderer will soon recover with your aid.

Project Resurgam update - the good news is that Wanderer has moved again under its own power for the first time since autumn. That bad news is that it goes backwards. This is easily fixable, but I do not have the energy to fix it right now.

@megchl543 🫂

If you see less of me, i’m sorry. The cancer meds are mangling my hands with rheumatoid arthritis. I can barely hold the phone.

@2e0rtb Must have taken a knock at some point, anyway, things work now that it is plugged in again.

@2e0rtb quick update - it was the joystick module itself. Having ruled out the cables, I decided to open the module. Luckily my carbide lathe tool set had a suitable sized Torx driver in it. The cable linking the joystick itself to the module's main PCB had become dislodged.

@2e0rtb What particularly infuriates me is that companies that do sell the dongles actively refuse to sell to users. They demand VAT numbers. I've taken wheelchairs up mountains and machined+fabricated an entire machine but apparently I couldn't possibly understand setting the settings.

@2e0rtb Will do, though given how simple it is, connecting four wires to the four pins is quite trivial; the actual contacts are recessed in plastic tubular pins. To test continuity, I stuffed short lengths of wire into them as my meter's probes wouldn't fit inside.

@2e0rtb hate to pester you but things are dire here. I did a check on just the electrics not long ago and everything was fine. Now, with the machine assembled, it gives me a "JSM Joystick Error" and refuses to do anything. I've continuity tested both R-Net leads and think (ctd)

@2e0rtb Interesting. Theoretically any R-Net Joystick Module is meant to work with any R-Net Motor Controller... It means next to nothing to me, but there's a large repository of work on trying to get R-Net opened up on GitHub. github.com/redragonx/can2…

@OrMakeOne Modes are stored in motor controller (although least on mine), and you tell it what the inputs should mean. It has a bunch of parameters like spin up time, and range for analogue controls, so for my scooter, 0-33% is "apply regen", 33-66% is "coast" and 66-100% is "accelerate"

@2e0rtb Four motors, though arranged as two parallel pairs, are still going to need a lot more current than two.

@2e0rtb I snapped up a spare R-Net joystick module on eBay for a tiny fraction of what they usually cost, but will still likely need to program it, assuming that the various modes are stored on the joystick module and not the motor controller module.

@2e0rtb The manual discusses the idea of connecting the joystick module directly to the motor controller module, and I did so with both available leads and got the same error message every time.

@2e0rtb Sadly - at least according the the manual I have - a special dongle is required to re-program an R-Net joystick unit as there is nothing the mobility industry hates more than the idea of empowered end-users. New cables on the way, but it's starting to look like it's the joystick