About 2 years ago I worked for a company that made hardware and went on a RadioShack buying spree. I bought an IR Emitter and Detector, but didn't know anything about hooking them up. Over the couple of weeks I've gotten back into wanting to do some cool stuff with electronics including sending some sort …
New prints
It's been a long time since I've posted anything about prints. I've just not had the time that I used to. It's taken a few more months than expected to make some modifications and get some printing done. One of the modifications was adding threaded screw inserts to stabilize the heightened bed. With the bed …
The Story of the Snow Cat
This blog is really about my weight journey... I mean, that's what it's called - so I've not deviated from that, until today. This story was important enough that I tell it in long form rather than a mere Facebook post.I don't remember much of my childhood, for whatever reason; however, this memory is one …
Simple 3D Scanner pieces
I have an Arduino driver board and I wanted to print a turntable so that I could scan objects. I decided that my first "real" print would be a base and table for a stepper motor so I could scan http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:37222This isn't all. I need to design a better base, make a way to assemble …
Printrbot PLUS Notes
Build notes aplenty the biggest thing to remember is that when you are building the video switches from overhead front to the photos in the instructions being behind to the side. So if you're spatially oriented/aware like I am this can prove to be very disorienting. I made a mistake on step five or six …
First homebuilt 3d printer
After a lot of research over the last year (and a lot of saving) my Printrbot PLUS will be at my house on Monday. I'm entirely satisfied with my purchase as it will be at my house within 10 days of ordering. So, where do I go from there? Well, I've decided that after a …
DAVID Scanner
I normally use a Mac; because of that I've not looked very hard for software to scan in 3D with. I do have Parallels installed, however, there was a problem using a PS3 camera with DAVID. I plugged in DAVID to my Dell Windows 7 machine. I then downloaded this driver and installed it. Inside …
Seedstudio TFT Touch Shield + Arduino MEGA
I was having some issues with my Touch Shield displaying content. It worked just fine capturing touch, but not displaying graphics.The first thing I did was go to: http://www.seeedstudio.com/wiki/2.8%27%27_TFT_Touch_Shield_V1.0In the first paragraph is a link to the Adafruit Touch Screen Library to download.At the bottom is a link to the TFT Touch Shield libraries.zip to download.I downloaded both …
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Arduino and Windows 7
I normally do all of my Arduino work on my Mac. I have had some issues today with getting the programmer to push my telnet code to my Arduino so I can test sending emails with it...sooooo, I connected my Arduino to my Windows 7 machine.If you would like to know how to get it …
Stepper Motor and Arduino Motor Shield
I was moving along on the 3D scanner and I needed to wire up the stepper motor. I bought this stepper motor #324 from Adafru.it - it seems to be a great motor. I bought a motor stepper driver from sparkfun, but I never hooked it up, nor soldered the pins I needed to it.You …
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