A member of ours has been hard at work designing a really sweet modern/retro hybrid audio amplifier with a built in media center. It’s open source, hackable, and sounds awesome. He’s currently running a kickstarter to kick off getting them produced. You can check out the kickstarter here. I asked Jason to do a little […] Read more
Cody sent us the good news that he followed our tutorial on hacking a toy tron disc into a super cool prop. He also upgraded some of the features in the process by adding some rare earth magnets to the design he is able to mount it to a possible tron suit, and aligning the […] Read more
We decided to participate in the chipKIT design challenge. Our entry is a KeeLoq shield, and Key Fob. Design Files / Firmware / Libraries are available here on github. If you would like to vote for us, go here. Our Entry Number is ck765. Here’s the video entry for the shield.
My Solidoodle 3 printer finally came in last week and I was able to pretty much plug it in and start printing. I immediately noticed that something needed to be done about the filament spool. With it being a new spool, the filament was just falling off at the slightest turn on the PVC holder which was […] Read more
A few weeks ago one of our members (Mike) picked up the RedSaid X700 Laser Engraver from ebay. Ordering and shipping of the engraver turned out to be a lot of trouble and very expensive. Mike spent a few days soldering wires to the laser tube, aligning the mirrors and doing a few test cuts […] Read more