Built in the Bay: MAKE at the Commonwealth Club of California
What happens when we bring a 3D printer to San Francisco’s financial district?
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PCB Assembly 101
Ever wondered how PCBs are manufactured? Zach Smith, a co-founder of MakerBot Industries, posted a fascinating article on Haxlr8r explaining what it’s all about.
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Top 10: Oomlout Factory Hacks
Regular readers will be familiar with UK open source hardware kitmakers oomlout. We love their products and link out to them a lot. This post is not about what they sell, however; it’s about what they share. The folks at oomlout are fairly obsessive process engineers, and are constantly hacking, modding, and tweaking their in-house production equipment to make their assembly and packing operations smooth and efficient….
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Pulse Sensor Kits, Lovingly Hand-Assembled in New York
The Pulse Sensor Kit (MAKE Volume 29) is assembled by us. Fans of Frederick Taylor’s “time and motion studies” will enjoy this time-lapse video of our assembling about 800 kits to go out into the world.
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Reel Crime: The Pulse Sensor Counterfeit LEDs Story
Drinking our tea in cozy confidence, we plugged the production samples into Arduino, put the unit on our fingertip, and casually looked at the screen for the Processing sketch to perfectly render our heartbeat. [Cue first spit-take.]
Continue ReadingDale talks to Liam Casey about manufacturing in China
Dale continues his excellent Foo Camp video chats, here talking with Liam Casey, whose company acts as an interface between US (mainly tech) companies and the Chinese manufacturing sector. In the O’Reilly Radar piece from which this video is taken, Dale explains: At Foo Camp 2010, I caught up with Liam Casey of PCH International, […]
Continue ReadingHow ball bearings are made
Alan at Hacked Gadgets found this neat video that shows how ball bearings are made.
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