February 7, 2014September 1, 20143D Printing, Electronics Kossel Mini 3D Printer Heated Aluminum Print surface I finally came to the point where I had to figure out a heated bead for my Kossel Mini 3D printer. It […]
February 6, 2014September 1, 20143D Printing, Electronics 3D Printer Hot End Review It is a bit of a chore to research all the different types of hot ends and attempt to figure out which […]
February 6, 2014September 1, 20143D Printing, Electronics Greg’s Accessible Extruder Assembly for Kossel Mini I started out with Airtripper’s direct drive extruder on my 3D printer and while I liked it a lot I found out […]
January 16, 2014September 1, 2014Components, DIY Projects, Electronics, Projects Educational Circuit Box DIY Here is a fun project you can do with your kids. It’s a project box with battery, switches, LEDs, vibrating motor, and […]
January 16, 2014September 1, 20143D Printing, Electronics Prusa Mendle 3D printer Hot End Fan Duct Keeping your hot end can reduce jamming, as the heat travels up the filament the liniment will expand sometimes jamming the hot […]
January 3, 2014September 1, 20143D Printing, Computers, Electronics Kossel Mini 3D Printer Electronics There are many options for 3D printer electronics. I like to use the Arduino Mega along with a RAMPS 1.4 board, as […]
January 3, 2014September 1, 20143D Printing, Computers, Electronics Powering the Kossel Mini 3D printer and modifying an ATX PC Power Supply You can easily power a 3D printer using an ATX PC power supply. You will need to connect the green PS-ON wire […]
January 3, 2014September 1, 20143D Printing, Electronics Kossel Mini Airtripper’s Bowden Extruder and Print Bed You can chose just about any Bowden extruder for the Kossel Mini, I chose Airtripper’s Bowden Extruder.
December 29, 2013September 1, 20143D Printing, DIY Projects, Electronics Kossel Mini 3D Printer Vertical Movement Tutorial Vertical Rail Options There are several options available for the vertical movement carriage of the Kossel Mini. The thing is some options […]
December 29, 2013September 1, 20143D Printing, DIY Projects, Electronics Kossel Mini Tutorial, Push Rods, Effector, Auto Level Probe and Hot End In this video I assemble the push rods, effector, and auto level probe. Push rods: They should be around 180MM and MUST be exactly the […]
November 24, 2013September 1, 20143D Printing, DIY Projects, Electronics How to Build a Kossel Mini Tutorial, Frame Why I am building a Kossel Mini My first 3D printer was a Prusa Mendel V2 Reprap, after seeing the speed and […]
June 3, 2013September 1, 2014Electronics, RC/Robotics Electric Hobby RC Cars for the Absolute Beginner I found gathering all the info needed to dive into RC cars as a hobby kind of confusing. It helps a lot […]
June 3, 2013September 1, 2014Components, Electronics How to Solder for the beginner Here are some good practices when soldering electronics.
May 30, 2013September 1, 2014Computers, Electronics How to terminate RJ45 connectors on Cat5 Ethernet cable Making Cat5 Ethernet cables or repairing the ends is quite easy. You will need a RJ45 connector, a crimper, and some […]
February 2, 2013September 1, 2014Electronics, Projects DIY The Most Useless Machine The useless machine is a simple box with a switch and motor, when you turn on the switch the lid opens and […]
July 3, 2012September 1, 20143D Printing, Arduino, DIY Projects, Electronics, Projects RepRap Prusa Mendel V2 Complete Build Introduction Building my very first 3D printer was quite traumatic and time consuming but […]
May 25, 2012September 1, 2014Electronics, Micro Controllers, Netduino Netduino VB button tutorial and Event Handlers Programming a button press with VB and your @Netduino, Event handlers and interrupt ports. In this tutorial I show how to program […]
May 18, 2012September 1, 2014Electronics, Micro Controllers, Netduino Netduino VB Tutorial 1 Blink This is the first in a series of tutorials on programming the Netduino with Visual Basic or VB. You can program the […]
May 18, 2012September 1, 2014Electronics, Micro Controllers, Netduino Netduino VB Programming Environment Setup Programming your Netduino with C# is fine and all, however, I am not going to do it any more. It is super […]
May 18, 2012September 1, 2014Electronics, Micro Controllers, Netduino Netduino FIrmware Upgrade Tutorial In order to upgrade or replace the firmware in your Netduino you will need to download some software first.