Are you fascinated with the passage of time? Do you want a stylish, modern and functional timepiece to add to your clock collection? The word clock is a one-of-a-kind time telling device, using a grid of letters to spell out the time. While you could spend thousands of dollars on other versions of this idea, […]
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I got a relatively inexpensive 6040 CNC machine, and have been spending most weekends making the thing work, and then cutting stuff, learning the toolchain, and making subsequent improvements. Probably 90% of my machine time has been on making improvements. It’s not that the machine was bad — I got the version with ballscrews and a decently
BALANCED DESIGN AND HOW TO KNOW WHEN TO QUIT OPTIMIZING Continue Reading
It would be great if you could create your own filament. On the face of it, it seems easy to do, but as [Thomas Sanladerer] found out when he was a student, there are a lot of details that can bedevil your design. His extruder sort of works, but he wouldn’t suggest duplicating his effort. In fact,
FAIL OF THE WEEK: HOW NOT TO BUILD A FILAMENT EXTRUDER Continue Reading
Eyes on the prize, Violet. Eyes on the prize! Get ready for a candy-grabbing face-off with your family and friends with this classic arcade game – the candy claw machine! But this time, it’s going to be a bit different – first, it’s going to be at your home, and second, you’re going to make
Candy Claw Machine – Arduino Based Arcade Game Continue Reading
One thing’s for sure: after seeing [Roland Van Roy] build a vertical mill from industrial scrap, we’ve got to find a better quality industrial scrapyard to hang around. The story of this build started, as many good shop stories do, at the lathe, which in this case was also a scrapyard build that we somehow managed to miss
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Baking cupcakes is a fun pastime, and one which we imagine many people took up in this year of quarantine and lockdown. However, anything a human can do, a machine can certainly make an attempt at, as [Skyentific] shows with this roboticized cupcake machine. The build will be familiar to anyone who has worked with 3D
CUPCAKE MACHINE MAKES TASTY, IF WEIRD, CREATIONS Continue Reading
In this project, We’ll try to get some information from the human body by using simple sensors and Arduino. You can use this information to create a lie detector machine. At the end of this article, you : Know Polygraph and basics of measuring and recording physiological indicators. Will be familiar with Lie Detector systems.
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For something that’s basically a coil of wire around some magnetic pole pieces, an electric guitar pickup is a complicated bit of tech. So much about the tone of the instrument is dictated by how the pickup is wound that controlling the winding process is something best accomplished with a machine. This automatic pickup winder isn’t exactly
A PAIR OF STEPPERS ARE PUT TO WORK IN THIS AUTOMATIC INSTRUMENT PICKUP WINDER Continue Reading
For some reason, when slot machines went digital, they lost their best feature — the handle. Who wants to push a button on a slot machine, anyway? Might as well just play video poker. [John Bradnam] seems to agree, and has built an open-source three-color matrix slot machine complete with handle. In this case, you’ll be
SLOT MACHINE HAS A HANDLE ON FUN Continue Reading
We are first Master students Electro-mechanical engineering on the The Brussels Faculty of Engineering (in short “Bruface”). This is an initiative of two universities located in the centre of Brussels: the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). As part of the program we had to make a real working mechatronic
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