It’s Pinewood Derby season again and I kinda enjoy making derby cars. This year, my youngest son and I made an awesome car for his bear den division. It came out great and I’ll do a blog post on that one as soon as I get some good pictures. We also have an ‘open’ class…
Tag: makerbot
A quick fix for my Walkman rattling problem
I listen to a lot of audio books from my Sony Walkman (NWZ-E436F). I have an RF modulator so I can play them through the audio system in the truck. The only problem is the thing slides around and gets lost on the floor. This is really the perfect kind of problem for a makerbot…
HeeksCNC does additive printing…sort of .
Here’s my first attempt at using HeeksCNC to generate g-code for my makerbot. I wanted to print a part with a screen. That should be a pretty easy part, but since skeinforge wants to slice a .stl, it turns out hand coding it is easier. Enter HeeksCNC. I used the pocketing operation with a custom…
Offerings to the god of print.
I really like the movie Worlds Fastest Indian. It’s based on a true story and if the main character isn’t a ‘hacker’ in his own way, I don’t know what he is. In the opening scenes, the camera pans through his workshop across a shelf full of blown pistons. Clearly this guy has obtained his…
Going over to the dark side.
It seems like every magazine and blog I read lately is filled with reprap stories. Make magazine had a Makerbot Cupcake CNC on the cover of the previous issue and CBS even did a short profile. It’s time to find out what all the fuss is about. I ordered a Cupcake a couple weeks ago…