Prusa Mendel frame
Assembled a Prusa Mendel frame tonight. Still need to get some smooth rod for the X and stainless threaded rod for the Z screws.
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Prusa Mendel frame
Assembled a Prusa Mendel frame tonight. Still need to get some smooth rod for the X and stainless threaded rod for the Z screws.
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Getting Started with gEDA
gEDA is the open-source solution for hardware design. It has all the capabilities needed to develop professional boards, and does not have any of the limitations that commercial products put on their devices. However, like oh so many open source projects, it is a mess of a lot of little pieces. The good news is
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How to wind an extension cord
James demonstrates how to wind an extension cord to keep it tangle free and easy to deploy.
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Yet Another WebCam
One of the features of the Makery (now the defacto name for the Omaha Maker Group’s space) is a standing webcam that publishes live photos of the space to the Internet. Â We have a few USB webcams hooked up to a PC running YawCam, which is a free (as in beer) webcam package written in […]
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Partition Walls and Robot Arms
Today was a pretty full, if short, day at the Makery; It started around noon, when the power was out as we arrived; It turned out to be a circuit breaker that must’ve tripped overnight somehow. Once power was restored, work continued on both the robotic arm controls and the partition wall that now divides
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Robotic Arms Invade the Makery!
Following last night’s meeting, a number of Panasonic Industrial robotic arms were dropped off at the Makery. These arms were used in some sort of assembly operation, and seem to have been manufactured (at least the motors) in the early 80s. A number of people hung around pretty late messing around with them, and had
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