During their weekly Take Apart Tuesday, the fine folks at the Crash Space hackerspace in LA were planning to convert an old printer into a pen plotter, by disabling the original electronics and hooking directly to the stepper motors that controlled the print head.
A simple and useful hack – Sebastian posted his steps for using an old guitar volume pedal as a general purpose potentiometer/foot control with Arduino. Using a Max/MSP patch, he converted the data to MIDI control channel messages on his computer. More infos over at little-scale.
I like this nifty, 3D printed Arduino case that I saw on Shapeways. You can have one made in a variety of materials with prices starting at $77.71. Now, that seems pretty expensive for a project case, but it’s much cheaper than I imagine having an injection mold would cost.
By Katie Goodman Organizing can be a daunting task for anyone, but especially those who are limited on space. I don’t consider organizing fun, though I love when my space is organized. Sometimes I’m just overwhelmed at the task at hand because there are so many questions to answer. Where should all these things go? […]
A lot of makers find themselves annoyed by throwaway products that can’t be fixed and are hard to open. Check out this interesting article by Alex Diener discussing the phenomenon from the opposite perspective: an industrial designer’s. To illustrate, Diener attempts to open up a busted iron (video above). Design for Disassembly is a design […]
The correct name for the MakerBot 3D printer is the Cupcake CNC, suggesting that all sorts of attachments could be substituted for the usual plastruder — in this case, Andrew “Clothbot” Plumb created an assembly out of some makerbotted connectors and a length of MakerBeam, allowing the mounting of the business end of a Dremel […]
Drawdio is an electronic pencil that lets you make music while you draw! Essentially, it’s a very simple musical synthesizer that uses the conductive properties of pencil graphite to create different sounds. The result is a fun toy that lets you draw musical instruments on any piece of paper. It’s a lot of fun to […]
