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Full color 3-D viewing Stand For iPad
Thomas Kumlehn of Pixel Partner sent me a nice email regarding the iPad Chair. He did a roughly similar Instructable to mine on an iPad 3-D viewer. This is another laser cut flat-pack iPad holder,...
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PVC – Update
FORMUFIT I saw couple of thing on various blogs regarding PVC lately. I think every general purpose maker has made something out of PVC at some point. It has a lot of desirable qualities. It is...
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Hand Made?
I play a lot of sand volleyball in the summer. I used to have a plastic winder for my volleyball boundary lines. It was in really bad shape because I tried to use it as a water ski rope and handle a...
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Slicer – Google Sketchup Plugin
Slicer3 is a new plugin for Google Sketchup from TIG. It allows you to slice an object into pieces that can be cut and re-assembled into the part drawn in Sketchup. This would be great for a laser...
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Hacking the EggBot for Lasers?
This little product from egg-bot.com has been showing up all over the web lately. It is primarily designed for coloring eggs and other small sphere-ish items. For the simplicity of it, it does a...
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Open Source Rotational Engraving Adapter (Part 1)
This is the new buildlog.net open source rotational adapter for laser engraving. This allows you to engrave on a round surface. This design uses a friction drive method to rotate the workpiece....
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MakerSlide Camera Slider Control Program
There has been a ton of interest in camera slider applications for MakerSlide. A while ago I decided to make a very simple reference design for a motorized slider. This design only required...
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PS:One Longboard
The subject of skateboards came up about 2 weeks ago at meeting of local makers. One of the PS:One Hackerspace guys confessed he wanted to buy a longboard for getting around town. Longboards are...
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Intro to V Carving
In a couple weeks we are going to do a CNC V Carving night at Pumping Station One. We hope to fabricate a number of designs on the CNC router. This blog post will serve as a basic introduction to...
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Skate-oko-asaurus: The self replicating skateboard
We build a lot of skateboards for fun at Inventables. Some of the guys even sell them at local craft fairs. They thought it would be cool to have a CNC router optimized for skateboards that was...
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Line-us Clone Controlled by Easel and Grbl
Last week I made a Line-us drawing robot clone. Unfortunately I had no good way to make it draw easily. I thought I would give the CNC toolpath a shot. My goal is to have a super portable thing to...
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Lost PLA Casting
We recently did some aluminum casting at the Inventables Beer and Making night. The primary mission was to do some lost foam casting, but I wanted to try lost PLA. Beer and Making is typically a...
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The Polar Coaster – A Drink Coaster Drawing Machine
I designed this machine to draw custom, round drink coasters. I already have a laser cutter for square coasters and I wanted to try something unique for round coaster. The Base The base of the machine...
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Laser Galvo Control Experiments
I recently bought some laser galvos from Aliexpress. What I got was the basic guts of a laser light show system. It came with everything I needed except the lasers. My goal is to control a laser to...
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Next Project – Wooden Nickel Engraver
I started working on my next backpack scale CNC project. My backpack scale projects are tiny CNC machines that I can easy carry in a backpack to tech meetups and events. This machine is going to be a...
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DrawBot Badge – Preview
I showed off an early version of my DrawBot Badge at the Hardware Happy Hour last night. Some tweeted pictures generated a lot of questions, so I thought I would write a quick post about it. I have...
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DrawBot Badge – Workshop
Woot! I and Jason Huggins (@hugs), of Tapster Robotics, will be giving a conference at the 2018 Hackaday SuperConference. The conference will be “Getting Started in Small Scale CNC and Robotics (Build...
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