Monthly Archive: October 2012

Build a Tony Stark Iron Man Gauntlet in a weekend

This Halloween I wanted to challenge myself a little bit for my costume so once I finally settled on Tony Stark I just had to put a gauntlet together. This video is of me with the final product. Not perfect but I’m happy with what I was able to get done even though it was in a very short time frame. I...

Cheap and Easy Tony Stark Arc Reactor

I really enjoy Halloween and use it as an excuse to spend more time working on fun projects. This year as a family we decided to all be superheros as the nicknames for our boys on our blogs has always super hero based. This year were going to be Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Tony Stark (Iron Man). You can guess who...

Makibox Hangout 2 Summary

Tonight Jon Buford hosted a hangout on AIR to answer questions from the community and interested parties. Some good questions were raised and the progress on the project is clearly moving along. During the hangout Jon covered several parts of the printer they’ve iterated on. The extrusion system using the pellet drive is now using a 2:1 gear ration instead of direct...

Fix Contact Form 7 not working with Dreamhost

Tonight my wife asked for my help trying to sort out why a plugin (Contact Form 7) was not working for a website she was working on for a client. Long story short after some trouble shooting it appeared that we were running into an issue where the e-mail address we were forwarding contact form responses to would work with...

Printrbot LC update – Finally

I do a great deal of micro-blogging on Google+  so check out the latest, my blog will remain with more stationary long term content versus status updates. So I’ve been printing for a while now and one of the flaws in the Printrbot design is that it will always wobble because the linear rods are not constrained along all axes of...