The design has been inspired by the low cost, light weight, highly durable XYZ spaceframe construction by Till Wolfer, Jesper Rølund, Ion Sørvin and Erling Sørvin, which is published under an Creative Commons “CC BY-NC-SA” license. See also:
@caro, @tox and their colleagues from the University of Bremen and Hiverize built a dozen of the aluminium-based XYZ-Spaceframe scales in preparation for the Beep project.
The estimated costs will be about 60 - 70 EUR for the frame without load cell. At Gemmel Metalle I calculated around 40 EUR material costs for the standard aluminum tubes (raw tubes cut to length without drilling). Additionally, you will need two laser-cut plates and screws, washer and nuts.
@karsten also told me that the drilling can be done using a drilling press with a stopper.
A interpretation of the aluminium frame scale.
The upper section is turned by 90 degree for the usage of hives with different wides and the lower section is hanging for less height over all.
Das Alu auf Maß & Verbindungsmaterial habe ich samt der der Lamellenstöpsel bei motedis.com bestellt.
Zum Einsatz kommt ein Aluprofil 30x30 B-Typ Nut 8 -
Sehr praktisch ist das man nicht nur die Möglichkeit hat alles aus Maß zu ordern, sondern auch gleich inkl. Gewinde um höhenverstellbaren Füße anzubringen.
Congrat Stefan, it looks good and the idea of adding aluminum feet is good ! Not sure if you had the same problem but my hives are moving a bit too much when there is a lot of wind. I am thinking about adding stoppers to limit the movement between the two frames. @clemens: I make 6 of them and paid total 391€ (with no feet, only the 2 H frames with caps). But I guess aluminum price has skyrocketed since then.
