Another Type of Carving
This is a picture of my friend Maitre from Cuba. Wohoo Salsa! Here’s a cool method of transferring a photo to a piece of wood. I’m using a piece of...
Exploring Toolchains
The painting robot project is an interesting software challenge. I’ve been looking at prior art and related projects and I believe I will benefit from studying toolchains further. Particularly those...
Pop-up Business Cards
Yesterday Michael showed me a business card with a pop-up monkey. It used die cutting and stamping. Very nice. I really enjoy making cool business cards. So minutes later I...
Coaster Concept
Doug and I met up last Wednesday at Atomic. He shared this cool project. He’s working on different touch sensors but this experiment was to see if a coaster could...
Tic-Tac-Toe
I made some Scrabble tiles for my friend the other day and that got me all excited about making games. So I decided to make a tic-tac-toe game out of...
Painting Robot First Brush Strokes
I was able to get little dipper to move some paint around with the brush! Here it is making two whole brush strokes! I decided to make the code on...
CNC Wire Bender
At the beginning of this life-phase of making things I attempted to make a CNC 3D wire bender. It would eventually make pre-bent landing gear for my simple model airplane...
Painting Robot Thoughts
Found Objects not for Function I’ve been using found stuff in various projects. One thing that’s come forward is that it’s bad for pure function in mechanical systems. They are cumbersome and...
Dip
I am designing the lower Y-Rail mount a well as the lower assembly of the Big Dip. I think it is most sensible to figure out the dipping system and...
Big Dipper Gantry Bearing
The Little Dipper (a 8.5×11″ format painting robot) is now ready for software which will take some reflection and time. While I mull over it, I will work on the Big...
Little Dipper Painting Machine
I’ve been on a course on high speed reading for the past three days so I’m just getting back to the Little Dipper project. Stepper Motors These motors are out...
Painting Robot Lives!
Little Dipper is now outfitted with shiny new linear bearings. I was a little silly to try to make it work with the junked up bearings from scanners (in retrospect)....
BFB Dual Head 3D Printer
I purchased a BFB Dual Head 3D Printer for the model airplane project. I think it may be able to make parts for ongoing projects too. This is an awesome machine...
Throbbing Business Card
I was working on a throbbing heart for my rooster project . I wanted to take a few shots at making the heart so I decided to try it on business...
New Rooster Form
For the rooster project, I have been thinking about trying an interference patter based on a rotating mask (I’m working on one with a linear interference mask too). Electric Rooster had...
Little Dipper Mechanical
I’ve got most of the mechanical together for the Little Dipper painting robot. The machine has good rigidity and is big enough for an 8.5×11″ sheet of paper in landscape....
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