Open Source DIY Printers are Alive and Well: What We Saw At ERRF 18
If you follow the desktop 3D printer market, it probably won’t surprise you to hear that nearly every 3D printer on display at the inaugural East Coast RepRap Festival (ERRF) was made in China. Even...
View ArticleStepper Motor Mods Improve CNC Flat Coil Winder
Finding just the right off-the-shelf part to complete a project is a satisfying experience – buy it, bolt it on, get on with business. Things don’t always work out so easily, though, which often...
View ArticleRewound and Rewired BLDC Makes a Half-Decent Generator
What’s the best way to turn a high-powered brushless DC motor optimized for hobby use into a decent low-RPM generator? Do you take a purely mechanical approach and slap a gearbox on the shaft? Or do...
View ArticleDelta Bot Plucks Out Tunes on a Mandolin
Is there no occupation safe from the scourge of robotic replacement? First it was the automobile assemblers, then fast food workers, and now it’s the — mandolin players? Probably not, unless [Clayton...
View ArticleDainty Delta Is About As Small As A Robot Can Be
There’s something mesmerizing about delta robots. Whether they are used at a stately pace for a 3D-printer or going so fast you can barely see them move in a pick and place machine, the way that three...
View ArticleDelta Robot Is Sorting Golf Balls And Taking Names
It’s a common situation faced by every hard-working American – you get home after a long day at the calcium mines, and find yourself stuck with a pile of colored golf balls that simply aren’t going to...
View ArticleRobot Arms Nudge the Hands of Time in the Strangest Clock
We see a lot of clocks here at Hackaday. Digital clocks, retro clocks, lots of Nixie clocks, binary clocks, and clocks that appear to be designed specifically to be unreadable. But this dual-servo...
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