Textile flowers and micro controller adding. Examples on computer and testing with jumperwire. So we had an e-textile workshop in CARTES, Espoo on 27th August 2011. Had about 10 active participants and more people asking of the topic. This was a non-stop so anyone could stop by for as long or short time as [...]
Category Archives: Projects
wearable instruments
Posted by beeta on 17/06/2011
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Wearable instruments = e-textiles of kind… Love it as it’s quite original. If you haven’t seen or heard of this yet, see these links: http://www.imaginarymarchingband.com/technology/ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/979856363/the-imaginary-marching-band
Play Zork with a typewriter
Posted by sivu on 01/11/2010
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By some definition, a machine is good if you can play Zork with it. Here is a classic typewriter which is controlled by a piece of Arduino software and yes, you can play Zork with it.
Introducing 595 matrix kit
Posted by sivu on 17/10/2010
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Finally we have our own design to offer as a kit, and we spent yesterday evening packaging our first batch of 595 matrix kit. The kit is based on the classic 74HC595 shift register and it provides an easy way to control 8×8 RGB LED matrix from Arduino or other microcontroller. Multiple kits can be chained [...]
FirmCake firmware released
Posted by sivu on 07/07/2010
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In my opinion the current G3Firmware is quite a mess. I hacked an LCD support to it some time ago and found the code to be quite hard to follow and not very organized. Also I’ve been thinking of new motherboard based on Arduino Mega and I needed firmware for that so last week I [...]
PGUI released
Posted by sivu on 22/06/2010
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I am a big fan of IMGUI style user interfaces and I just found one of the many IMGUI implementations I’ve made with Python and decided to put it on a GPL license and release it. It’s still very immature but still quite useful for small projects. You can find it at http://github.com/paeaetech/pgui. More reading [...]
New rods
Posted by sivu on 20/06/2010
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Replaced the standard cupcake threaded rods with trapezoidal rods. It rocks! I was really unimpressed with the rods that came with my Cupcake package. Most of them were already not very straight and made the Z-stage wobble really bad. Now the z-stage flows really smoothly. Hardest part was to get the ReplicatorG axis scale value [...]
New extruder
Posted by sivu on 07/06/2010
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I’ve had a lot of problems with Plastruder MK4, it strips the filament all the time or the idler wheel loosens during the build. Main problem from my opinion is the idler wheel tightening. It just is not good enough. I found a Printruder II model which looked like an excellent alternative to Plastruder so [...]
Let there be light!
Posted by sivu on 27/05/2010
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White led strips are a really good and fast way to add some light to your cupcake
Cupcake CNC with Bluetooth
Posted by sivu on 23/05/2010
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First thing to do when Cupcake CNC has been built? Making it wireless! I had a few BlueSMiRF Gold modems lying around and i was thinking of using them for Cupcake before I received the kit. Now that the kit is completed I immediately checked the Sanguino board if bluetooth module would fit it without [...]