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Awesome continues……
Our lonely little circuit board now has 511 friends and Light Night is fast approaching. Construction continues.
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Beware! The UberCube is coming!
It doesn’t look much does it? How could something this mundane unleash such huge amounts of awesome? Keep watching to find out!
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Virtual Radar
Since both the hackspace, and my home are fairly close to the approach to Leeds/Bradford airport, and I’ve always had an interest in aircraft I’ve often wondered what was flying around, so decided that building my own virtual radar system … Continue reading
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Fixing an LED Cube with Hot Glue
Last weekend we went to the UK Maker Faire and saw many awesome things, including some very nice LED cubes. Inspired by this I thought I’d have a go at building a small one. Constructing the cube itself was relatively … Continue reading
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3d Printing: Printer part designed and printed!
This weekend at the hackspace I realised that my personal 3D printer needed a part that we made for the space printer using the laser cutter. Unfortunately the laser cutter is no longer with us and it was a little … Continue reading
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Surface Mount?
Today we learned a lesson in quality control. And how little some suppliers have. We recently bought a set of (very) cheap “stepstick” 3D printer stepper motor drivers. While attaching heatsinks we noticed one board wasn’t mounting correctly. Further invstigation … Continue reading
The Evil Snowman
This year I decided to have a go at building my own electronic christmas card. As I have no real artistic skill, I did cheat a little, and started with a regular off the shelf card, featuring a snowman on … Continue reading
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Flying Squirrel
Our 3D printer (a stretched Mendel Max) has recently got to the point where it works. To test this we ended up printing a selection of squirrels (currently posing on our webcam). We started with the medium sized white squirrel, … Continue reading
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Vote for Us!
The BeagleBone Black challenge is over and we’ve managed to get the arms moving on the foosball table and track the ball using the BBB, motors, laser cut plastics, bits of wood and electronics! What we need now, so that … Continue reading
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Tagged bbb, beaglebone, beaglebone black, beaglebone challenge, black, challenge, element14, farnell, hackspace, ps1, pumping station 1
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Challenge Progress !
As part of the BeagleBoneBlack Challenge set by Element14/Farnell it was requested/a requirement to post a blog update each week. We were informed of this a bit late so I pushed out a short update, then a longer proper ‘week … Continue reading
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