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Maker Faire 2018, Bald Engineer's Highlights

Wed, 23 May 2018 18:54:34 +0000

The Bay Area’s Maker Faire 2018 encompasses an impressive scope of activities. Pedal-powered live music, fire-breathing machines, kids building stuff, corn dogs, fresh honey, LEDs, soldering, roaming robots, and so much more. The last couple of days I made a few posts on the things I saw at Maker Faire. In this post, I’ll summarize many things that don’t fit together, but I wanted to mention that I enjoyed seeing.

X-Carve CNC Review and Hands-On with PCB Milling

Wed, 10 Jun 2015 14:00:07 +0000

There are two methods to making a prototype PCB: 1) Etch Your Own or 2) Send to a Prototyping Service. While there are many prototyping service options, most cause you to wait anywhere between 24 hours and 30 days before you get your boards back. If you need a PCB done today, etching at home is a great option. Chemical etching involves all kinds of steps with all kinds of weird chemicals. If you don’t want your neighbors to think you’re the next Walter White, then mechanical etching is a better option. Which is why I bought an X-Carve from Inventables. It’s a CNC Milling Kit you build yourself.

100kGarages: CNC Router Bits Demystified

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:28:14 +0000

Early on in planning the design for the Quadrotor, we knew that eventually some of the metal parts would need to be milled. Having very little milling experience, other than a couple of basic-use classes at TechShop, I had no milling experience. When it came time to start buying router bits for the ShopBot and Tormach CNC routers, I didn’t know what kind of bits were necessary.

Custom Made Quadrotor - Overview

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:06:55 +0000

Status: Active, In Progress (Updated: 4/18/2013) Abstract Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmiyc/sets/72157633185131473/with/8653034709/ This Quadrotor project is a collaborative effort between Mike Kurdziel and I. The unique twist on this collaboration is that he is located in Menlo Park, CA and I am in Austin, TX. We’re collaborating remotely while doing most of work on the TechShop locations in each of our towns. Our Quadrotor is desgined from scratch. All major components have been adapted from other sources but, otherwise, designed by us for this project. We have no flight experience and neither of us has ever attempted a project on this scale before.