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3dprinting in Kigali (Rwanda)

3dprinting in Kigali (Rwanda)

After days of calibration finally our printer is up. With it’s 230X300X300 print bed it’s a beast.

If you have a project drop me a line on twitter @atilev and I’ll be happy to help with your project. As far as I know this is the only functioning printer in the country. What can we do but not share it!

Alp

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3Dprinting on mendelmax3 (what a pain)

3Dprinting on mendelmax3 (what a pain)

4 months in after my move to Kigali, I heard rumors of a 3d printer roaming around. After leaving my Afinia in NYC I was desperate to get my hands on my favorite tool again. Especially in a geography where tools are scarce and supremely expensive. Later I got word of a abandoned, dis-functional 3d printer gathering dust in someone’s basement. Through some quick research, It turns out that…

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Poor mans DIY Laptop Stand

Poor mans DIY Laptop Stand

Continuing on my “Poor Mans” series I found that making things with what you have at hand can be both fun and resourceful. To set the stage it might help to give some background first. Around a month ago, I left my position at Microsoft and have relocated to Kigali, Rwanda. I joined a team of inspiring people looking to reshape energy and in healthcare in Africa. They are called Great Lakes Energy

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Printing on Borosilicate Glass

Recently I decided to up my game a bit and start printing on borosilicate glass. You probably know this material from your mom’s pyrex cake pans. Due to its extremely low thermal expansion it has been a favorite for applications requiring smooth surfaces and lots of heat.

Prior to using borosilicate, I was contently using the TAK surface print surface provided by Afinia. Though, the TAK surface…

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Hololens and Microsoft

A very odd thing happened yesterday. I met a few of my friends after work where I casually walked in a brief moment after small talk I started to get bombarded with questions. Suddenly all of them started  asking me in disbelief and excitedly  “Is HoloLens a real thing” . Expressions like “if it does 1% of what they claim its amazing”  showed the excitement this was stirring. Having worked at…

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ABS Welding for 3dprinted objects

ABS Welding for 3dprinted objects

Recently, a close friend of mine sent me a video showing a method to fuse ABS printed parts together. Generally, with 3d printing, as the objects being created get further complicated , it’s a common requirement to print them as multiple part and  use some sort of adhesive to bring them together.

ABS Filament fusing is just like welding. Though, instead of using electricity to arch and thus cause…

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Building an FPV racing drone Part 3

Building an FPV racing drone Part 3

If you’ve come this far, this means you’re almost done with building your FPV drone.

A quick anecdote before we get started. While doing my initial flight test I burned an ESC. I’ve also decided to pull the power for the FPV transmitter straight from the battery rather than the ESC as I feel this might be the culprit for my ESC burning.

O simply go back to your wiring and create another splice to…

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How I start my year for the past 3 years. By watching this.

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Setting up your self hosted WordPress site

Setting up your self hosted WordPress site

Azure dashboard url settings

Happy New year! With a new year I decided to move my blog to my own hosting instead of using the wordpress.com. I figured that since I have a nice domain and some hosting on azure, why not take advantage of it?  In doing so, I figured this could be a great piece of knowledge, for those people who are also hosting on wordpress.com and would like to self host.

  Now…

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Building a FPV racing drone Part 2

Building a FPV racing drone Part 2

Once you have all your parts in order you can start your assembly

Start you assembly by putting together the ESC’s I noticed that the 12A hobbyking BEC I’m using are not Simon K flashed so I’ll go into the details of that further but not letting it stop my right now.

First we need to create the power distribution circuit.

If you’re not using a power board get your soldering iron ready as were…

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How to create low poly mesh's

How to create low poly mesh’s

Something happened in the late 2000’s which made took us go from super high polygon counts to favor low polygon counts in models. I’m not sure if it was the yearning for the 90’s but these lo polygon models became quickly a hit. You can find a whole section in Thingiverse dedicated to high quality models exquisitely dubed down to low polygon models.

http://www.thingiverse.com/glitchpudding/collec…

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Highly availible Mongo on Azure

There are many reasons why Mongo DB became a promement database for devs. As microsoft only recently launched DocumentDB as it’s own NoSQL option it’s still early stage and catching on Mongo is still the NoSQL db of choice. You can always gow with MongoLabs or MongoHQ which provide Mongo as a service. However if you recently stumbled on 6000$ of azure credits it’s good to know that these credits…

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Building a FPV racing drone Part 1:

I remember the first time I tried on a pair of FPV goggles and took my drone for a spin. At that moment what I felt was incredible. I true out of body experience. My mind ran wild thinking how I could do this in 3d and increase the quality. I could see this being a game changer in the future of entertainment. So I had to build on for myself. I usually fly dji phantom 1 which is has so many…

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Poor Man's DropCam

Poor Man’s DropCam

3d printers are both incredibly fast and obscenely slow. They are fast in the sense that what would in the past take you days to create using traditional tooling now takes you only a few hours and the end result is in millimetric precision. Though it’s also slow in the sense that the average print still takes at least an hour or more. As this technology is still in it’s early stages each print…

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How to do Linux backups on Azure without shutting the VM down.

How to do Linux backups on Azure without shutting the VM down.

I feel Azure has always had a gap of taking VM backups without requiring a host shutdown. Sure I could create a script that would shut my VM’s down take a snapshot and export them to blob storage. However, the problem here is that I don’t want this piece of code running from my local machine. I also don’t want a dedicated host to do this.

Now with the release of http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/s…

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Hot boxing your 3d printer (prevent warping when 3dprinting with ABS)

Hot boxing your 3d printer

If you’ve followed my pasts post you’ll probably already know that I really like printing in ABS. The prints come out sharp, crisp and the details in the resulting model are incredible. The good news ends however when you switch to larger models, even with a fully heated print bed the dreaded warping is difficult to prevent. When printing precision components the warping can cause problems…

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Solid works and Surface Pro 3

Solid works and Surface Pro 3

When I first picked up my Surface Pro 3 on Monday I was extremely excited about the possibilities of having a full power laptop with the thin form factor of a tablet. I was really curious to see if it could be the ultimate creating machine, something I could do my dev work on as well as something that’s ultra portable. I also really like the idea of touch and having a pen for using with CAD…

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