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It would be really helpful for anyone building to follow some assembly instructions or wiring diagram for bstrip.

Do you happen to have any reference assembly instructions or circuit diagrams that you used to build the design?

The exploded view helps but sometimes the order of assembly can make it hard to assemble certain sections towards the end.

Would be great to have the video linked in the readme for anyone who comes across the repo as it is a great overview to understand what it is and how it was built.

Video in question - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LFLcuUfIaE

Hello,

I have found your project on hackaday and it seems really great! 👏👏👏
I was wondering if there is a maximal diameter to use with ?
I would like to cut pvc hose of 13 mm outter diameter and 10 mm inner diameter.

I could make a fork of your project and change the cutting tool to make it work but may be there will be other issue with this design.
As you have designed it, I think you will know if it will be possible to adapt or if it is not possible.

Having the source files (depending on the accessibility of the software) would help make iterative updates to the 3D printed STL files would greatly improve the likelihood of someone being able to contribute back to the project. Such as resolving feature request #4 would be easier to tweak the source file than adjusting the STLs or reverse engineering them.

Many open source projects use FreeCAD or OpenSCAD and from experience FreeCAD is easier to use for new joiners to a project.

What did you build this project with and are you able or willing to add them to the repository?

We were wondering if it were possible to adjust the STL files so that they can be replaced with captive nuts instead of heatset inserts. Heatset inserts tend to be more expensive to buy and difficult to correctly insert.

Captive nuts could be the regular hexagonal ones or you can also get square ones depending on the torque requirements. Regular ones would be preferred if possible as they are easy to source.

Is this a possibility as it would greatly simplify the build?

NB: For context for anyone else who is reading this captive nuts are when there is a horizontal slot for a nut to slide in and you then screw your bolt through a designated hole.

The link in the readme to the source code points to a non-existent page

Page not found - https://github.com/jpieper/bstrip/blob/main/sw

Am assuming it should point to either of the following URLs

• https://github.com/jpieper/bstrip/tree/main/src
• https://github.com/jpieper/bstrip/blob/main/src/cutwire.py