The current plan is to get as good hobby cnc machine as possible within the arbitrary budget of approx 300 EUR (electronics + mechanics, PC not included in the budget). Nothing is exactly written in stone but the general idea is a "bang for buck" machine....
I actually attempted this once before. That time, I figured there was no way I'd heat the whole QFP up enough to get it off without screwing up other parts. There are parts on both sides, so you can't just wantonly heat it up. So, I got out a dremel...
Competing Products - Best prices from RNIB websiteNext Generation Perkins brailler, raspberryBasic Typewriter for A4 paper.£624.25 Seika mini braille displayBraille terminal for controlling portable computers with a 16 cell wide display.£1,085.25...
Build MontagePrinting the HelmetThe helmet model was designed by drumguy560 on the Replica Prop Forums. I did a lot of digging and although this model has been around a while, it still seems to be the community favorite for 3D printing. It also has some...
I have been interested in building a CNC machine for years, even going as far as building one out of old CD Rom drivers, and another from an old 3D printer. A year ago I stumbled onto Nikodem Bartnik's DIY 3D Printed Dremel CNC project and...
(ping "followers": the successor to this project has developed pretty well & continues - since you followed this you may want to follow that) Thanks Dan Maloney for the very complimentary Hackaday.com post! Wow. Thanks Elliot Williams and Mike...
The design is directly inspired by the very detailed build of the Roubo (a French woodworker that published in the 1770 years an encyclopedia about woodwork : http://roubo.art/planches/tablePl_p1.htm) bench found when looking at how to use that...
Second Life UPS Mark II Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.0.1. More battery capacity1.0.2. More power1.0.3. Capacity planning for power buses1.0.4. Solid-state operation1.0.5. Modularity 2. Overall schematics3. Build instructions 3.1. Planning3.2....
Interactive Disk SpinThe Interactive Disk Spin was born one fateful night when Paul took the cover off an old hard drive, started compulsively spinning the shiny platters with his finger, and then wondered "how fast am I really making it go?" Two late-night...
by tEEonEIntroduction I love racing games, and along with the Xbox One came Forza 5!The few steering wheels for XB1 are super expensive and bulkyThe XB1 controller is a new device and i was dying to take one apartI had a spare SRW-S1 lying aroundI thought...
First you need to mark out a suitable area on the back of the guitar for the battery compartment measure it's dimensions in height and width. There's always a lip on battery boxes to cover the router cut on the guitar body so measure the inside dimension...
Uses a passive pickup system but with a few twists. Toggle switches select the bridge or neck pickup and add one of two (or none) capacitors in parallel to change the resonant frequency. Also decided on a simple mute switch in lieu of a volume control.The...
Ok so, someone had kindly donated an old helium balloon filler tank. If you've never seen one, they look like a flimsy propane cylinder. I decided this was a good size, and that the handles would make acceptable feet. Looking through the scrap in my...
The initial idea was to make a life-size version of the actual game Operation. At the first meeting, however, an idea was proposed to keep the spirit of the original, but make it instead an alien autopsy, with the patient being an alien and the ailment...
For those of you who are interested, I have a short grainy smartphone video of a version printing on a large (very large) bed in PLA. You will see that to accommodate the weight of this large bed, we put the edges of the bed on wheels. That's...