I have an idea I want to try out involving sintering (melting) powdered plastic with a laser as an alternative to extruding plastic from a nozzle. To do this, I need some sort of plastic, ideally ABS plastic that is…
okay, so i hit up the lab to see if my cheap dc motor controller board could also be used to drive a stepper motor. verdict: absolutely, but it doesn’t like large steppers, and it’s not nearly as smooth as…
I saw this over at Hack-a-Day and while this is nothing new, its still worth blogging about. This is a great example of how hacking every day things to create new useful things is cool. Expecially if you make something…
Tonight, Wednesday October 24th at 7pm, we’ll be meeting at the lemurplex to share projects. Direction Link There will be chance for you to share your work, a short tutorial on servos, and time to set up partnerships for collaborations!…
I’m on the lookout for some Victorian era clothes to wear to the steampunk themed Chaos Communications Congress this winter. If you’ve got a source or costume shop to recommend, let me know. While searching for top hats, bow ties,…
Watching this amazing video over at Wired is pretty much guaranteed to blow your mind. Dr. Atala is printing body parts using a setup not unlike RepRap. He’s using a modified HP printer with an elevator plate added to allow…
I thought I’d make the first Software post to the blog. And since I am always on the hunt for good console, non-GUI, based applications to make my life easier, I thought I should share one of my findings. For…
Andrew Fentem has a video on his site of a very cool interactive LED cube. He doesn’t post any information about how the cube is made, but here is his ‘artist statement’: World’s first cubic touchscreen computer games platform (2007)…
Here’s an interesting vid about the fab@home peeps. – Link Fab@home wiki – Link 3 of these were to be sold at Maker Faire and it looks like only one sold at $2500 – Link
The Evil Mad Scientists made a blinking LED pumpkin. pretty easy, and looks like fun.