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Darwin prints own head, then a Mendel

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:00:00 +0000

I haven’t seen this guy, Gavilan Simon’s, work before. I like the clear, straightforward way that he explains how he used his Darwin RepRap machine to fabricate a better extruder head for it, and then, used the improved Darwin to fabricate a Mendel (the next-gen RepRap model)

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World Maker Faire NY: RuBot II interview

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:00:00 +0000

With just over two weeks left to World Maker Faire New York , the countdown is on! Our first full-scale East Coast Faire will take place on September 25 and 26 at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, which was originally built as a pavilion for the 1964 World’s Fair, the perfect location to showcase the newest maker-made art and tech. In the lead-in to the Faire, we want to showcase the Maker Faire’s most important collaborators: the makers themselves. Today we chat with RuBot creator and Mechatrons director, Pete Redmond.

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Commercial 3D printers will one day undersell the Makerbot. But does it matter?

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000

The MakerBot CupCake is a thing of beauty, an open-source 3D printer whose $750 price undersells the commercial alternatives by a ton. Plus, you get a fanatical group of users who’ll help you debug any problem. Yes, the Dimension uPrint can make tighter models and outputs them quicker, but $20,000 excludes most amateurs.

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Wii-controller Nikes

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:00:00 +0000

Nick Marsh’s Nike Air Max sneaks have been tricked out with Wii accelerometers Balance Board load cells that connect to a belt pack. Computers are becoming an ever increasing part of modern life and gaming is a large part of this, being used to relax, socialise and more recently, exercise. Gaming platforms such as the Nintendo Wii have made it possible for people to get their own personal sports work out from the comfort of their living room, using hand held controllers and a balance board to participate.

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Homemade engraver’s ball

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:00:00 +0000

Wooden Bowl Bottom Cut Out Stainless Steel Bowl, Filled With Lead Centre from Scotch Tape Hard Disk from PC. Cheap Pin Vise from Ebay I don’t think the captions from Ganoksin Project user Shaun750′s video , embedded above, showing off his clever kitbashed engraver’s vise, are meant to be appreciated as blank verse.

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Biennophone radio from 1953, now with MP3

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:00:00 +0000

I have an old vintage tube radio and have thought about putting modern electronics in it, too. This one has some cool features, like it actually plays the MP3 and modern AM and FM tuners through the original AM tube radio, using the last two channels 340 and 307 KHz, so you get that crap…

Self-assembling photovoltaic technology can keep repairing itself

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:00:22 +0000

Self-assembling photovoltaic technology can keep repairing itself @ KurzweilAI … MIT scientists have created a novel set of self-assembling molecules that can turn sunlight into electricity; the molecules can be repeatedly broken down and then reassembled quickly, just by adding or removing an additional solution. In an attempt to imitate the process of photosynthesis, Michael Strano, the Charles and Hilda Roddey Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, and his team, supported by grants from the MIT Energy Initiative, the Eni Solar Frontiers Center at MIT and the Department of Energy, produced synthetic molecules called phospholipids that form disks; these disks provide structural support for other molecules that actually respond to light, in structures called reaction centers, which release electrons when struck by particles of light

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Cooking for Geeks DIY book tour starts Wednesday 9/8/2010 at HacDC

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:00:00 +0000

Jeff Potter, author of Cooking for Geeks , is kicking off his book tour tomorrow night at HacDC: HacDC is happy to be hosting Jeff Potter, author of “Cooking for Geeks” for a one night only presentation in DC on the finer arts of food science.

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UP! 3D printer pr0n

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:00:00 +0000

The $1,500 closed-source UP! Personal Portable 3D Printer (PP3DP) does its thing, putting the heat on open alternatives like the Mendel and MakerBot. We have been developing the UP! printer for more than one year, it is completely based on our own efforts, we have not used open-source solutions for this design. We understand and follow the RepRap and Fab@home projects with great interest, however these designs follow a quite different direction than we have chose for the UP! printer development

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Portable electronics desk

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:15:00 +0000

Morten Nisker tweeted this serviceable little portable electronics bench he built so that he could carry all of his electronics tools and supplies in a handy carrying case. He realized that he didn’t do that many electronics projects because it was kind of a hassle to scare everything up from far flung corners of the house.

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