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I updated an old Dorkly comic to reflect my weekend.
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Hot work! #makerstation #marietta #makerspace
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Son of Crios only has four legs, we shall call him Quattro #makerstation #makerspace #marietta
Ceci n'est pas une plaque This is a drawing of the bottom plate for the ongoing Crios Hexabot project at the Maker Station makerspace http://wiki.themakerstation.com/Robotics_Hexapod_Kit
Candy Kart is ready for the ATL Science Festival Parade tomorrow! Apparently this is the first parade ever dedicated to science. And there's plenty of science involved in making the Candy Kart go. 36VDC, 800Watts, with a rear differential live axle and pneumatic wheels. Took her for a test drive today and she's running great: https://youtu.be/2VXbU3h-HSU
Repraps printing parts for new Repraps is what it's all about! #lulzbot #3dprinting #makerstation #makerspace
The mechanical dimensions #makerstation #makerspace
#SpringIsComing No better way to express your maker cred than with a custom print t-shirt. This one designed with #inkscape applied to heat transfer vinyl cut with a Silhouette Portrait cutting machine by @silhouetteamerica It's a great little machine, available to our Makerspace members. #makerstation #makerspace
Spring is in bloom! Come over and make something. #makerstation #makerspace
Congrats on the 2M user milestone! We <3 @tinkercad at The Maker Station #makerstation #makerspace
Maker Life Has Its Perks! #3dprinting #makerstation #makerspace
Year of the Monkey Medallion 2016 Mixed Media: Sharpie on PLA plastic, bamboo Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1233460 @thingiverse #3dprinting #makerstation #makerspace
What is a 3D Printer Good For?
by Bret Lanius
When people find out I have a couple of 3d printers and love having them, they invariably ask something to the effect of "yeah but what would I use it for?" and granted, I understand the question, it's hard to imagine the need for something you've never really experienced.
For me the main reason I got into 3d printing is I love to tinker with technology and electronics and making stuff (I'm what we now call a a "Maker"). And even though I didn't have a specific need in mind I knew it was something I had to play with one. To get started, I joined The MakerStationĀ makerspace and learned to use the 3d printer there, and within a couple of days I starting getting ideas for things to make, my first thing was a slip on scale for one of my old cameras to show distance inĀ feet rather than meters.
It was pretty simple design done in TinkerCAD. Which is a great beginner tool for creating 3d objects you can print. While I love having access to a 3d printer at the Makerstation it just wasn't enough for me. I starting having ideas for a ton of things and bought one of my own. This post is about a couple of recent quick fixes I was able to do because I had a 3d printer.
We have some outside DC lights along the driveway, My wife pointed out that one of them was falling over and that the base where it was screwed into the wood was broken.
She suggested I make something to fix it. In about ten minutes, with a program called DesignScape Mechanical, I designed and then printed it out a ring that slipped on the light, and BAM! light fixed. Total time about an hour.
For Christmas I got a really great Induction charger for my phone. I hate plugging the phone in at night and love the idea of wireless charging, Well first time I used it I found the blue pulsing light to be way too bright for me and made it hard to sleep and so I didn't use it.
Ā It then occurred to me that I could probably make a "collar" for it to block most of the light. Again, I went to DesignScape Mechanical and created a cover, and now it works great! I can see the light if I look directly at it, but it's not spilling into the room at night.
All of this definitely has a learning curve, but if you enjoy making stuff, once you have access to a printer and start playing around with it and even just downloading stuff from thingiverse.com or other sites to print, it won't take long before you starting thinking like a "Maker" and come up with ideas of things to make on your own. Come by and try out our Lulzbot 3d printer we have at the MakerStation and see what I mean.
My 2016 Project
by Beverly Lowe
Iāve always been intrigued by projects Iāve seen where people work on them a little each day. Every time Iāve tried it, whether itās reading a certain number of pages or turning one page in a comic a day calendar, Iāve failed. The amount to do in these never takes long enough for me, so I end up getting ahead of schedule. Then, I start feeling guilty, because Iām ahead, so I take a break. I may pick it back up a few times, but I never get the hang of doing a little every day. This year I am trying a project that I think is designed in a way that will prevent me from getting ahead of schedule. I literally donāt know what colors Iām supposed to use two weeks from now.
I got the idea from a friendās Facebook page. There are several of these on Pinterest, and Iām guessing that this sort of idea was around before the internet. Itās a Temperature Afghan. The colors used for each row are determined by the temperature that day. After I planned and started mine, I found this scarf. I want to do that one, but Iām trying not to take on too much at once. I found these instructions from someone that finished one. A quick search on Pinterest will take you to hundreds of versions.
I chose eight colors in the order of the rainbow with violet being the coldest and deep red being the warmest. Iām simply doing double crochet rows, nothing fancy, the colors are the important part. I modified mine a little for the south. I doubt weāll have many days of temps below 20, so I will use the color for the 20ās to represent anything under that as well. Iāll do the same thing for 90ās and above. I was unsure of whether others were using highs or lows, so I decided to use both. Instead of crocheting one row each day, Iāll do two; one for the low and one for the high. This will give me a better visual for days with bigger fluctuations.
This project appeals to the data lover in me. I have a hypothesis that the ends will be the cool colors I chose, and the middle will be the warmer. However, this year we had 70s in December. The data, not me, will decide the colors I use. Iām looking forward to seeing the finished project.
So, what will I do when I finish my two rows, and I feel like I need to keep going? That is the other thing I love about this project. I have so many unfinished projects. If I donāt want to stop, I will work on one of the other projects Iāve either started or have been wanting to start. Itās a win-win. Iām sure there will be days when I donāt want to crochet. Thatās another great thing about this. I will make myself do the assignment for the day. I can do anything for a few minutes.
If anyone else is trying to do a little each day this year, Iād love to hear about it.
Evolution of the Bicycle.
300 years compressed to a 1 min animation telling the interesting history of the bicycle, all the way from the wooden horse to the modern racer. [video]
This is awesome!
trying to work on a project in the summer and the AC is broken again
This defnly what it's like at a makerspace in Atlanta in July!