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Etching PCBs without Ferric Chloride
I came across this tutorial a while ago detailing how to etch PCBs using common household chemicals instead of ferric chloride. Being a lazy person who doesn’t want to drive out to Sayal (in Cambridge)...
View ArticleArduino-Compatible Multi-Threading Library v0.5 Released
It’s been a while since I’ve touched this project, but I’ve decided to re-visit the multi-threading library I wrote for the Arduino (largely because of the amount of consistent traffic those particular...
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Creating 3 dimensional objects on a Taig mill with a Rotary Axis
In my last blog I detailed the conversion of a manual rotary axis into a CNC rotary axis. I finally got some time to mount the rotary axis on the mill, configure the stepper in Mach3 and run it through...
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Hacky Hallowe’en!
Tonight we landed a $1000 grant from the appropriately-named KW Awesome Foundation to launch an event we’re calling “Hacky Hallowe’en”*. The plan is to teach two fundamental and essential skills that...
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Laser cut Police Box (aka TARDIS)
Working on a 1/12 scale Police Box for my kids since they started playing Doctor Who (no really, honest.) Based on pictures of the 50′s era Police Box, but lots of liberties taken to make it easy to...
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Project: Wooden Table
I managed to complete a table I’ve been working on for a number of months, and has been in and out of the Heavy Lab. I found an Ikea Molger frame in the As-Is section (my favourite haunt!), and thought...
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Arduino Car
My goal in this is to learn about motor drivers, distance sensors, and have a platform that I can use for experimentation. To that end, I preformed a frontal lobotomy on a remote control hummer. The...
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Raspberry Pi Jam and Laser Cut Case
Come out to the Raspberry Pi Jam on Saturday Sept. 15, 2012 at 4pm and laser cut a case. Show off what your Raspberry Pi can do. Make a case with our laser cutter. Learn how to write code for it and...
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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...
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Mini 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...
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Aniomagic 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,...
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Robot 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...
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The 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...
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The 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
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James 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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