Update on the LPKF board mill
Over the past few months, Richard and myself have been trying to get the LPKF PC board mill working. The past few weeks we have been joined by Tennessee, who has been invaluable in homing in on the...
View ArticleMini Dustpan for Cleaning a 3D Printer Heated Bed
3D print a mini dustpan to make cleaning your heated bed easy. Regular dustpans are too big to get to the edge of a 3D printer heated bed so I designed a mini dustpan. It...
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I’ve been wanting to make an Art Bot since last summer, and I am happy to report it has finally come to completion! I more or less followed the instructions for the project from Wired Magazine found...
View ArticleAniomagic Glam: Easy-Peasy Etextiles
I know Aniomagic best for their LED sequins — tiny, flat (surface mount) LEDs that have either been mounted onto tiny board with sew-through holes (and on board resistor), or soldered onto conductive,...
View ArticleRobot Gripper Improvements
Solidworks Gripper Design by Karl Williams Designing and creating robot grippers and wrists is something I enjoy working on. Becoming proficient in Solidworks has been a great tool for creativity and...
View ArticleThe Making of the “M”
When the email came through from Laurel McKellar at THEMUSEUM looking for artists to create a sculpture for an award entitled “The Joan Euler Order of the Creative Mind” we jumped on the opportunity...
View ArticleThe Inflatinator
Kwartzlab, two weeks ago: A screeching noise spews out of Ravi’s BattleBot. The last kinks in what appears to be a spinning blade of doom are being hammered out. Upstairs, Jim has set up Kwartzlab TV,...
View ArticleOur UStream is back!
After a couple years of intermittent downtime, we’ve finally got our ustream back online! Check out the Kwartzlab front workroom: View our front room stream! It’s now powered by a dedicated Raspberry...
View ArticleNo seriously, we do have a stream though.
Despite some technical difficulties yesterday, we do have a stream! Kwartzlab’s front workroom can be found right here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kwartzlab
View ArticleJames is a goddamn hero
Our laser cutter is dead. It has been dying for a while now. Parts have burnt out and been replaced. More parts have stopped working, or were working intermittently. Stopgap measures were taken to fix...
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