



Description
Summary
Bismarck battleship
That will be an 1 metre long, bluetooth controlled model of the Bismarck battleship by german naval forces in 1939.
What are the planned features?
1 metre length ✔
good printabillity
at least one artillery should be turnable and "shoot" water
bluetooth control with android smartphone
easy to build electronics
cheap as possible
print it once in a while?
These are just bad weeks for this challenges,
printer broke
car broke
son ill
and so on
because of that, the work on this project has been stopped untill i get my printer up and running again. Until yesterday i still had some hope to get the project done right on time for the MakeItFloat challenge.
What is finished so far?
waterpump
hull (printable, internal support)
not printable but modeled the upper part (bridge, artillery and so on) without the cranes
ToDo
easy electronics to rebuild at home
overall control with HC-05 (or alikes) bluetooth SPP + ATMega
write simple software for Android and ATMega or Arduino
motor control with simple MOSFET H-Bridge ✔
paddel control with cheap servo motor
upload layout, schematics for electronics (PCB)
write Android and ATMega/Arduino code (sadly the most easy part for me)
model carrier for electronics, motors and some kind of airsoft BB bearing for the turning artillery
make bridge (upper part) printable
write tutorials/HowTo's (compile app for Android, compile ATMega code, build electronics with single ATMega or Arduino, tricks to get the print up and running)
that's it so far. Since i've spend about 50 hours in my printer since last week and still wont get it to print reliably and anything else i could imagine breaks as well i can't tell when i will keep on this project.
For anyone interested in, i uploaded my project files as well. I wish any other competitor best luck!
One additional note
The parts for the waterpump are in the rsdoc files. I created many iterations depending on the power of your motor. Actually you need about 5,000+ rpm and the more torque you have, the bigger the lower part can be.
Comments (4)
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Hi Klaus, any update on the rest off the model? Would love to print this as a Massive static model. Went and had a look at the printable parts and must say job well done!
Hi, thanks for your interest! In fact it hurts me badly, that i couldn't catch up with this project for such a long time. My thing on thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:926620/#files contains my whole blend project of the Bismarck (about 148MB of meshdata). I really hope you can do something with it as i kept (back then, with a blender version of back then) constantly running into issues with non manifold meshes.