I’ve found that the fat cables that came with the robot arm I got from the Makery are out-gassing a horrid stink of damp basement. Whelwick is starting to smell like an old barn. To address this I’m going to take a two phase approach. I’ll need to addr…
Who said bomb? Not me. Not you. Its just smoke, people. Dave gives a great fireworks related demonstration, just in time for the 4th of July. If you ever need to send smoke signals, here’s how: OMG doesn’t recommend you go out and do this on your own without experience and safety equipment. /disclaimer
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I’ve decided to take the plunge. Lacking basic cooking skills for much of my bachelor life, it occurs that rather than thinking of the endeavor to procure tasty food as a time consuming chore, I should think of it as an opportunity to experiment in a chemistry lab. To that end, I’ve recently fallen in
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One of the Omaha Maker Group’s generous members donated some robot arms a while back. A couple of them had some mechanical issues, and we’ve stripped those for parts. Some of the remaining arms are reserved to possibly share with some other groups. Thi…
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For the sand casting demo for the Omaha Maker Group, I picked up some beads at Hobby Lobby to use as patterns. I thought that since these were convex they would make for an easier demo than the glass dish I used in my first attempt. These turned out to…
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Picked up a couple of cheap 8 inch subs to help fill out the bottom end in my RX-8. Not sure yet what the install will be, hoping they will fit between the back seats in an IB configuration.
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While the entire project might have cost a bit more than $5, this remote control plane built by Luke is still pretty inexpensive.  Check out the videos of it flying at the park last Saturday. 
Here is a short video of the slide portion of my automatic cat food dispenser project.
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We put together a little Ruben’s tube at the OMG meeting today. There has been some discussion about building a large tube for a week or so, but no one has yet come up with a length of tubing to use. We were standing around talking after the meeting an…
Tonight I built a really crappy coupler to connect the motor on the cat feeder mechanism to the drive screw on the slide. I was having some difficulty getting anything to work and started on a new slide with a scotch yoke design, but, not surprisingly,…
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