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3D Printing: Ultimaker Build Notes
Some build notes from my Ultimaker build experience….. Overall, it took me roughly 4 days to build the Ultimaker. The first two days were a couple of long stretches and the last two were much shorter....
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Ultimaker Printing an Octopus Really Fast.
This is a short video of the printing of an Octopus I’ve been using as a test model. The Ultimaker is printing at 250% of normal speed. I started at 100% for the first layers until a solid base was...
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Teensy Based IR Blaster
Evolution of a Design When I started this, as can be seen in the image at left, the case was two parts that fit together in a semi-complex manner (Actually, the very first version just had a little...
View Article3D Printing: Oh, The Tuning We Shall Do.
After a while with the Ultimaker, a series of notes on the various things one can do to tune the 3D printing experience. Some of this is specific to the Ultimaker, but most of it is not. Much of this...
View ArticleArduino on Mountain Lion
In my “spare” time (hah!), I hack on Arduino a bit. Mostly because there are tons and tons of 3rd party libraries that make hacking up a hardware solution mostly a bit of soldering followed by gluing...
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Whoah! Arduino goes ARM on the cheap & Arduino AVR Gets Really Tiny (on the...
For the Teensy Blaster, I used a Teensy v2.0 board from PJRC. It is a tiny board containing a not-so-limited AVR chip (32K of flash, >2K RAM, 1K of EEPROM, and a slew of I/O pins) and a mini-USB...
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3D Printing: A Tour of Stuff
Since picking up an Ultimaker nearly a year ago, I’ve printed many things (and wrote a very well received article for Make: Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing). These are many of them and some lessons...
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OS X Client Software for Owon SDS7102 Digital Storage Oscilloscope
Ever since using my first Oscilloscope in the ’80s, I’ve wanted one. Though I’m a software person by trade, my hobbies have long included electronics in many forms. Heck, I’ll take a well tuned,...
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Bluetooth Keyboard Caps
Recently, I’ve been carrying an Apple Bluetooth Keyboard with my iPad mini so I can compose relatively long emails. Nothing beats a keyboard for text entry! While I love the keyboard, it does have an...
View ArticlePhilips Hue: Almost the Perfect Lighting Solution
Nearly a year ago, I upgraded all of the standard incandescent lights in the house to Philips Hue. The Hue is an LED lamp that gives off a decent amount of light — 60 watt incandescent range. The Hue...
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