After a few months of working on the design in the background, I’m ready to get the first prototype frame cut. Check below the break for images of the current design!
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Aus3D MK2 Printer Development (Part 2)
I thought I’d take the time today to talk about a few of the things I’m doing during development of the MK2 printer to address a few problems in the MK1, and how I’m trying to keep the design as flexible as possible.
Continue readingLogging Sensor Data from the Oculus Rift DK2
Last year I purchased an Oculus Rift DK2 – I’d like to say I bought it as a developer, but really I just wanted to play around with virtual reality stuff. I mean, who doesn’t? This year my final year project is centred around a “3D Viewing Platform”, or “tele-presence”
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I’ve been selling Prusa Mendel i3 kits on Aus3D for a while now. The kits I’ve been selling so far (which I’ll refer to as MK1 kits from here onwards), are fairly decent kits. I didn’t design them, they were designed and manufactured in China – I’ve been buying them
Continue reading3D Printed Arc Reactor
Last year I designed a 3D-printable Arc reactor prop, controlled by an Adafruit Gemma microcontroller and using a NeoPixel Ring for illumination. I shared this on Thingiverse at the time – now I’m finally following up with the details.
Continue readingOctoPi and the Printrbot Simple 1405 Kit (Mounting Raspberry Pi B+)
As I’ve mentioned previously, I recently put together a Printrbot Simple Makers Kit 1405 for a weekend project. In my earlier post, I discussed designing and printing feet to fit the 1405 in order to stabilise it, without interfering with a mounted Raspberry Pi running OctoPi. Swapping to a Raspberry
Continue readingFeet for the Printrbot Simple 1405
I recently put together a Printrbot Simple Makers Kit 1405 – what a great little printer! Assembly took less than two hours, and it was printing away soon after By default, it’s a pretty stable printer. However, I had an issue where the wiring underneath was lifting the printer up
Continue readingProgramming an Arduino with regular AVR-GCC Code
I’ve recently been working on a University project where I needed to develop software to run on Atmel’s STK-600 board – a dev board built around Atmel’s ATmega2560 microcontroller. The project is being built in Atmel Studio and is written in AVR-C++. So I could work on this project at
Continue readingNew Quadcopter Design & Build
As discussed previously, I recently put together my first quadcopter. It used a 3D printed frame, which was easy to assemble and modify – but also a little too easy to break, I’ve found. So, I decided to do up a new design, and see if I could put together
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I’ve been printing a lot of stuff lately – and when I came across a 3D printed quadcopter design on Thingiverse, I had to give it a try.
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