After the initial proof-of-concept-I-am-not-totally-incapable I restarted the mechanics from scratch trying not to clutter my build history and sketch folder inside Fusion360. I enlarged the gap in the center of the two axes so that a 4mm carbon fibre rod can move smoothly. I decided to use such a carbon fibre rod because my Z…
Take on: Rebuilding from photos – Mira-Bot [Part 1]
This recent hackaday post caught my attention while scimming across the blog’s topics. Alonso Martinez’s Pixar style robots. But he didn’t include the stls to print your own. Though you can sign up on his maillist which I encourage everyone to do. MAybe at some point if enough interest is accumulated he will release the…
Hand-picked Arduino Sound Projects
When playing audio on an Arduino there are several projects you come across. The ease of use or writing your own tunes might be challenging with those projects if you have never made one complete tune on a chiptracker or at least you are able to compose your own songs the analog way with pen…
Spherebot and how I got it working!
I got it working with Eggduino. Really cool firmware. Works like a charm. Just two little modifications in eggbot.py and in eggbot_scanwin32.py and you can control the spherebot/eggbot/eggduino directly from within Inkscape. I described the changes to be made here. Also read the readme from the developer for the other change in eggbot.py. These modifactions…