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Category Archives: Photo
Snakesta
There was a time when the gangsta ruled the botcave. Models were downloaded, plastic was melted and re-formed, the gangsta represented, and all was rosy and cheerful. Those days are over. The snakesta is here to stay. I designed this … Continue reading
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Robot plant
My friend and I made this Robot Plant for a build series I’ve been running over at Make. Instructions, etc can be found there! There is also a contest with some pretty fabulous prizes that you can win if you … Continue reading
Posted in Journal, Photo, tech
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How-To: Build a soldering iron stand from a coathanger
At the workshop at Blooming Labs in Bloomington, IN, we were short a couple of soldering stands. Mitch showed us this nice trick for replacement stands using a standard coat hanger and some wire cutters, so I wrote up some … Continue reading
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Midwest Workshop Tour of Hackerspaces
For the rest of the month, I’m going on tour with Mitch Altman and Jimmie Rodgers as their official roadie. We’re visiting a number of hackerspaces in the Midwest, and holding soldering workshops at them. They started their journey a … Continue reading
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Bug dance
.. this is when you know you have been in the lab for too long. Full size photo here.
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Cicada flyover
Bam! High-def version of the video is available here. The system looks like this:
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Motion test on the camera rig
So this is what we’ve been working towards this past week. The above video is a nonsense trajectory with all four axis moving at the same time, just to show that they work. The system itself seems to be functional, … Continue reading
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