Category: Engineering
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Headrest Mount for Fire Tablet
My son keeps stealing my wife’s phone on long trips. So we needed a sturdy headrest mount that could withstand the punishment of our toddler’s temper tantrums. We purchased 1 at “5 and below” for a Nintendo Switch but it didn’t fit right. I used the base from that to hook it to the headrest.…
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New Concept for Head Unit Design
I’m not sure if I’m going to run with this design but after doing some research on different shapes and how they’re applied in modern robotics. I decided to mess around with a spherical design for my head unit. This is just a rough concept I hammered out from my existing design. I have a…
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3D Scanner gets Much Needed Upgrades!
Up until now my 3D scanner used a very cheap $15 webcam for recording images. It’s worked so far for prototyping but I wanted to integrate more methods of scanning into my device. I had already put a lidar sensor on the machine before this upgrade for around $40 at microcenter but now it’s integrated…
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“Earl Grey” the Software that Drives my Fully Automated 3D Scanner
The software creates detailed point clouds by setting sequence of user defined scan points. then scans the object in every direction and uploads the scan and sequence to a remote server
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Refurbishing a DY-H9 3D Printer on a Budget
So about 2 years ago I purchased a couple of used 3D printers for $50 one was a really flimsy delta printer and the other was this a DY-H9. It was really beat up and many of the motors had seized. I think it might have spent some time outdoors judging by the rust around…