Can you guess what it is yet?
First test prints of my small K-9 head on our new Prusa 3D printer.
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Building an Enigma
I have now been to Bletchley Park twice. In the gift shop they have a Build your own Enigma-E Kit: The Enigma machine was the German cipher machine used to encrypt their WW2 communications and systematically cracked by the Bletchley…
China in making me Sad
I picked up a 37 in 1 box sensor kit from china, it includes basic components and sensors, and is compatible with Arduino and Raspberry Pi The Package Included (their description): Small passive buzzer module KY-006 2-color LED module KY-011…
SwarmBot introduction
A fair while ago Swindon Makerspace started a group project called LogoBot, a cheap, expendable and extendable easy to build robot for playing with. Even longer ago I bought a MiroBot from kick-starter, it had lived in a box, and…
Week 6: Shift Registers
This week we will be having a play with a 74HC595, the Data sheet lists it as an 8-bit serial-in, serial or parallel-out shift register with output latches; 3-state.” In other words, you can use it to control 8 outputs…
Pick and Place head
I found the ‘Picktor’ Pick and Place head for retrofitting on a 3D printer on Thingiverse (GitHub) As designed it uses a Nema 17 stepper motor, however I suspect that will be too big for my design. I got 3…
3D Print K9
I have been trying to design a K9 for 3D printing for a while, even using Fusion 360 getting the body design has been a stumbling block, On Facebook, there is a k-9 builders community and a link to a…
Python development on macOS
Tamarisk helped me set this all up, she is a professional Python developer! Make sure your mac is up to date and running the latest version of macOS, I am running macOS Monterey 12.0.1 at the moment. Open a terminal…
Battery sledge for my ROV
A beautiful print using my roll of Filamentive grey filament, this is the battery and electronics sledge for my 3d Printed ROV. I am doing my design in fusion360, and printing the parts on our Prusa MK3s. Thanks to Ravi…
Assembling the battery sledge
After the success of printing the sledge for my DIY ROV in the last post, It is now time to try and wire it up, I am using two of these Youmile 3S Battery Protection Board Modules, they claim to…
ToyCorner Idea
I can’t remember where I came across the REEcorner™ module concept. (I think it was probably LinkedIn) The REEcorner looks like it could be adapted to work nicely on my DefLander ‘Tot Rod’/’ToyLander’, I have chosen the name “ToyCorner” as…