Yes, sorry, I've not had much to say recently, because very little has happened to the Stylus. This is partly to do with it being very reliable, but mostly because it's been so COLD. It has been very VERY COLD for a very long time. We also went to see my son's family in Scotland, planning a couple of things to see on the journey - we were planning on calling in at Scotland's "National Museum of Flight" (sounds very grand doesn't it? Has a very professional looking website too). Turns out it was SHUT - only opens at the weekends in Feb. So we looked for other things to do & it seems that the vast majority of Scotland was SHUT. We did find a small car museum that was open Weds to Sun, but the road to it was SHUT.
However, summer is coming in spite of the outside temperature & I've started tidying up some of the car's minor irritations. The Stylus has been pretty good, so there's no real "work" to do, I've topped up the fluids & changed the oil, but apart from that I've been printing bits for it.
First, the walkie-talkie. I'd tried various ways of mounting the two way radio, most recently with a large P-clip, but there's a few requirements to be met. It needs to be quite high in the car so the signal can get out, it needs to be close enough for me to reach if there's a problem (for normal use there's a remote Press To Transmit button so I don't need to touch it) & the wires don't want to be dangling across the interior.
There's a space on the lower tube of the roll bar which works well, but the P-clip mounting I came up with is "permanent" - I can't just take the radio out if there's a problem with it.
So I drew up a better mounting that holds the radio by the belt clip & is inevitably 3D printed, it clamps round the tube quite nicely & is printed in TPU - which is polyurethane, so it's softish & won't rattle, but because the belt loop on the radio has a double return it won't jump out if I fail to notice a speed hump & take it at 40.
It worked so well, that I started looking at other parts that needed a tidy up & I've now re-drawn a steady for the new GoPro mount - the one that allows the cameras to look over the roll bar, but folds in seconds if I need to put the roof up.
Also on the activity list is a new mounting for the GoPro remote, at the moment it's just held on to the dash with sticky-back velcro, it wobbles & it's started to "migrate" leaving a smear of sticky goo on the dash. So I'm adapting a GoPro mount to hold the remote in place (also with a 3D printed thingy), which will allow a degree of flexibility as well as not being so floppy.
When the weather warms up a bit I'll do some more preparation, but until then, I'm staying indoors.