When building my i3 I decided I wanted to do things from scratch since I was unable to purchase a kit up at front. So, little by little I acquired pieces of my next machine. I purchased the frame from seemecnc, electronics and motion components from different sellers on E-bay and printed all the parts I needed on my...
I’ve had a pi for a while. I’ve used it mainly to control my 3D printers but I’m working on building my own little cloud at home and I needed it to start serving as my little always on linux hub now that my larger media server has been taken down in favor of a ChromeCast. I needed to mount...
This Saturday morning as my wife and I were talking about what needed to be done around the house she showed me how the knob on our crock pot had snapped off. I immediately thought here was a chance to make and then print something fun. I took the lid and happily broke out the calipers and OpenSCAD. About 30...
So a while ago I tried to help a friend design a case for some electronics. Essentially some electronics enclosures. Towards that effort I developed a library that allowed me to build a basic t-slot powered box like below. Well, I decided to clean up the library, throw it up onto thingiverse as a customizable object and push the code...
The best words a significant other can say are “Can you print me something that does X?”. This past weekend my spouse asked me that very question. She wanted to know if I could print her something that would help her organize cans in stacks in our pantry. A quick search on thingiverse revealed that no-one had tackled this particular...
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...
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...
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...
Well, my parts are all finally here and while it took a while I’m very very excited to get this mill up and running. Right now I’m rather swamped with graduate work (both school work and research) and my small family but I managed to grab a few hours Saturday night to work on the mill. Here is a shot...
So I’m still waiting on the final parts for my CNC machine I took my hacking time this weekend and put together my own Rootooth. I bought the bluesmirf silver, a voltage regulator (and associated caps) and a cable to hack from http://www.sparkfun.com/.
