Year: 2011

This Week in Hobby Robotics 02

Frits and Rik are back with another episode of This Week in Hobby Robotics! Find out what’s going on in the land of robots. Frits (from Denmark), who works professionally in web concept development, is the creator of Letsmakerobots.com, a popular international source for hobby robotics. His cohost, Rik (from Holland), is part of the […]

Tips on Printing Mechanical Parts

Tips on Printing Mechanical Parts

MakerBot Industries blogger MakerBlock is working on a clockwork spider, and went the route of designing his own gears. He’s sharing his observations of designing and printing his own clockwork parts on the MakerBot blog. Here’s a sample: Don’t make parts too thin. The parts I printed tended to be designed too thin. If you […]