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3D Printing: Ultimaker Build Notes
Some build notes from my Ultimaker build experience….. Overall, it took me roughly 4 days to build the Ultimaker. The first two days were a couple of long stretches and the last two were much shorter....
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Ultimaker Printing an Octopus Really Fast.
This is a short video of the printing of an Octopus I’ve been using as a test model. The Ultimaker is printing at 250% of normal speed. I started at 100% for the first layers until a solid base was...
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3D Printing: Upgrading Firmware & Printer Driver (For Ultimaker & More)
Out of the box, the Ultimaker shipped with a stable, but relatively ancient, version of the firmware. This, combined with the stable, but relatively ancient, version of ReplicatorG available from the...
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Teensy Based IR Blaster
Evolution of a Design When I started this, as can be seen in the image at left, the case was two parts that fit together in a semi-complex manner (Actually, the very first version just had a little...
View Article3D Printing: Oh, The Tuning We Shall Do.
After a while with the Ultimaker, a series of notes on the various things one can do to tune the 3D printing experience. Some of this is specific to the Ultimaker, but most of it is not. Much of this...
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Aerogarden 2nd Run; With Custom Built Pieces
After nearly 5 months, the first run of herbs in the Aerogarden were finally tired to the point of no longer useful (I started with AeroGarden Gourmet Herb Seed Kit (6-7-Pod) and it worked really well...
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Amazon: Playing with an iPad
We spent a week at the end of June on the Amazon River in Peru with International Expeditions. Fantastic trip, more on that in a later post. One afternoon, we visited a village — Nueva York — along...
View ArticleArduino on Mountain Lion
In my “spare” time (hah!), I hack on Arduino a bit. Mostly because there are tons and tons of 3rd party libraries that make hacking up a hardware solution mostly a bit of soldering followed by gluing...
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Whoah! Arduino goes ARM on the cheap & Arduino AVR Gets Really Tiny (on the...
For the Teensy Blaster, I used a Teensy v2.0 board from PJRC. It is a tiny board containing a not-so-limited AVR chip (32K of flash, >2K RAM, 1K of EEPROM, and a slew of I/O pins) and a mini-USB...
View Article80/50 Yogurt
When I became sous vide enabled (controlled water bath, anyway, a proper vacuum chamber is on the to-buy list), it immediately dawned on me that a tightly temperature controlled water bath would be...
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Printing the NASA 3D Models
Update: Thinking about it for just a moment, I realized the print quality would likely be higher if I printed in “launch position”. Doing so would greatly improve the wing quality while also,...
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Roast Turkey
For Thanksgiving this year, I couldn’t decide between cooking a smoked turkey or a roasted turkey. So I did both. 38 lbs of turkey may have been excessive for 12 people, but the leftovers are grand...
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3D Printing: A Tour of Stuff
Since picking up an Ultimaker nearly a year ago, I’ve printed many things (and wrote a very well received article for Make: Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing). These are many of them and some lessons...
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Xcode: Sometimes a return is not a return (emacs brain damage)
Every now and then, I’ll be coding along merrily in Xcode and I’ll get an error much like the one at left. Or “expected identifier or ‘(‘” is another variant. Huh? That code is fine. Maybe it is an...
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Ratchet & Clank Infinite Bolt Hack (and Much Much More)
The whole Ratchet & Clank series of games is just fantastic (save for the last one or two that kinda lost the plot). This year, the first 3 games were remastered for the PS3; 1080p and a bunch of...
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OS X Client Software for Owon SDS7102 Digital Storage Oscilloscope
Ever since using my first Oscilloscope in the ’80s, I’ve wanted one. Though I’m a software person by trade, my hobbies have long included electronics in many forms. Heck, I’ll take a well tuned,...
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Bluetooth Keyboard Caps
Recently, I’ve been carrying an Apple Bluetooth Keyboard with my iPad mini so I can compose relatively long emails. Nothing beats a keyboard for text entry! While I love the keyboard, it does have an...
View ArticlePhilips Hue: Almost the Perfect Lighting Solution
Nearly a year ago, I upgraded all of the standard incandescent lights in the house to Philips Hue. The Hue is an LED lamp that gives off a decent amount of light — 60 watt incandescent range. The Hue...
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Great Blue Heron
This morning, Roger pointed out that a Great Blue Heron had perched in a tree at the edge of my parent’s pond (Columbia, MO). Cool. Grab the camera. Maybe I can get a shot or two. Out of the 40+...
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Fire: The Media Machine Kinda Sucks
90 more seconds. A gentle wind blowing from the opposite direction. That is all that made the difference between our house being the and one house was severely damaged vs. one of the houses that were...
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