Here’s what the underside of the bot looks like. You can see the iron pipes that work as a base, the lasercut platforms, and the skate bearings that make it move silky smooth. Zach of the Reprap foundation has done a lot of work to get ordering the Repstrap’s parts organized. He’s put together a […]
Getting the electronics set up is the first step to getting a working reprap robot together. Besides 3 stepper boards, 1 dc motor controller board, a PWM board, you’ll want two arduinos and an arduino tx/rx thingy! Download the pdf for more information and then download the test code so that you can hook up […]
Making insanely cool origami isn’t easy. This week’s video and PDF work to make it easier to make the $3 dollar origami flower found in Craft: 05. If you live in a country with different currency, I’d love to see this in international flavors! If your base currency is worth more than can be left […]
I went to a big box hardware store to pick up the parts for this. If I remember right it came out to be about $75 with lots of PVC left over for other projects. It took at least an hour to find all the parts in the store. Seriously, hardware stores don’t organize the […]
In order to survive the zombpocalypse, I’ve got an article on ghoulish makeup from the halloween issue in this weekend’s PDFcast. But it doesn’t stop there, for your survival this halloween, I’ve included 5 articles from the Make: Halloween Edition. So If you’re still not sure what you should be for halloween, you can download […]
What you see here is a negative mold of my teeth made of alginate. It’s a seaweed product used for dental molding. I got it at my local art supply store. It doesn’t taste too bad, but the texture is basically like putting slime-goo in your mouth and you have to have it in for […]
This week for the Weekend Projects PDFcast we bring you the Maker Faire poster! If you’re anywhere near Austin, TX next week please please join us for Maker Faire 2007 Austin! – Link (PDF). Want more – You can get this poster and more in our Maker Faire poster section! – Link. What’s Maker Faire? […]
