For all that modern washers and dryers do, they don’t let you know when they’re finished. Or they do, but it’s only a short victory song that plays once and can be easy to miss. What most of us need is a gentle reminder that there’s damp laundry festering in the washer, or fresh laundry […]
SPINNING UP A NEW LAUNDRY MONITOR Continue Reading
Robots are cool. Robots you build yourself are cooler, especially ones that use stuff you have lying around already. Snoopy is a new open-source robot that uses an Arduino as a brain but with a 3D printed body and a short list of parts that can probably be sourced from the junk drawer. It’s still being developed,
3D PRINTED ROBOT WANTS TO BE YOUR PET Continue Reading
[Note: if you are using smartphone or portable device to browser this post, some math formula might not appear properly. To see the math in correct form, scroll down to the bottom and click “View web version“] After finishing the mini CNC laser engraver, the next thing in my mind is 3D printer. One
The oldest form of television used a spinning disk with a progression of holes — a Nipkow disk — to slice the image into lines for display. They’re surprisingly simple machines and capable of unexpectedly high-quality images despite their relatively low resolution. Even better, in an age of microcontrollers and bright LEDs, making one that
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Do you ever find it a hassle to manually level your 3D print bed every time you make a print? Even seasoned 3D printing pros need to level the printbed after every couple prints. We’ve created a device that helps tremendously improve this procedure. This project, codenamed OmniLevel, helps you level your 3D printer bed
3D Print Bed Leveling Tool Using M5StickC Continue Reading
