Hi everybody,
Let me expose the subject.. Do you know that the organic way of growing bunnies is to have them eat grass and have access to it ? Well that's why my dad made cages with fences and "rollers" to move them around a while ago.. only I thought it could be funny to add a battery with a solar panel, a set of four driven wheels and an Arduino to "pilote" them on straight lines at first, and maybe make more complex trajectories in the future..
I will be fine enough programming the whole thing and defining the necessary power supply.. only.. I am not at all an engineer in mechanics and get quite lost figuring out how much torque, gear ratio and else I may need...
I would like to use the smallest motor steppers with proper gear ratio on two wheels so that it can move, but definitely slowly with like maybe doing 1 revolution per minute or so.. I actually need the cage to move only 1 to 5 meters per 24 hours... I would define the "speed" myself afterwards, just by playing on the frequency at witch I would have to make a new rotation (stepper = easy, and from what I've seen better torque motors)
I think the cage would be up to 100kg once everything on it.. well I mean.. I hope it will not be more than that !
There may be some elevation to take into account, like maybe 10-20% so that the whole thing would be able to climb a small hill for sure and in the best world with enough gear ratio and external forces due to the grass holding on the sides, the cage while not under power would stay put.. an not fall away.. with poor bunnies "faceplanned" inside it
I'll take all the help I can get, and if in the meantime I can understand better the reflection and explanation behind it all it would be great
There may be some missing data, I am not necessarily looking for something exact but like enough to make it work if it was maybe 1 and a half more or twice the payload..
Thanks a lot, looking forward to hearing from you
PS: the words I am using may not be too accurate - if so I am sorry... I came to this world as a Frenchy