My good friend Chris McDonald made this extra-great, 2-axis drawing machine for doing time-lapse photography. Here’s the info from his personal website vanita phone company: Gertrude uses two stepper motors to move an LED in a very high resolution x/y…
I’ve been working a lot on the RepRap code lately and I recently got it to the point where segment pausing is drastically reduced. This RepRap is driven with Arduino based electronics running a GCode interpreter firmware. Woot! Segment Pausing…
Modulate/Demodulate from Zach ‘Iowa’ Hoeken on Vimeo.
We’ve been having meetings getting the internal infrastructure and community up. Also, we’ve been having a pretty good time. – Link We’re going to have a microcontroller study group meeting, open to anyone interested in microcontrollers and willing to come…
Great, simple, idea. An etch-a-sketch hooked up to an old mouse with a couple of stepper motors, wired through RS232 connectors, a couple of couplers (I love saying that), and a nothing-fancy Atmel Mega 32. Imagine the possibilities this could…
Great interview at Ecolect.net with the founder of SMIT – a sustainable design startup that was started by Teresita Chochran from NYU’s ITP program. SMIT, located in Brooknam, is doing some really interesting work with solar power on homes and…
There is a great show going on at the MOMA, NYC right now. It’s called Design and the Elastic Mind and features lots of amazing projects built with Processing, Flash, hardware, solar panels, etc. Here is a link to the…
Some updates to the Lilypad which are pretty useful. Speaking from experience it’s a nice add-on. Sparkfun just got these versions of Mrs. Lily in and describe them as follows: LilyPad is now even easier to use. LilyPad main boards…
Heres the first of many timelapses of my RepRap machine printing. I’ll be working on the quality and lighting. If anyone wants to give me a hand, let me know! RepRap Print Timelapse from Zach ‘Iowa’ Hoeken on Vimeo.
The last hope is a hacker convention in NYC and they just put out their call for participation. A good chunk of it seems to be about hackerspaces, so we’re going to have to show up and represent. It’s July…