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Making Friends by Making Them v.01
Making Friends by Making Them v.01
Making Friends by Making Them is an open source modular robotic construction kit. The construction…
Mugshot Clay Mug
Mugshot Clay Mug
Making the Profile To make the profile of a mug, first you need a template.…
Metal Stamping Factory – Watch Face
Metal Stamping Factory – Watch Face
Visiting the metal stamping factory that made our watch face. The metal press machine die…
Ribbon Band Factory
Ribbon Band Factory
This is an amazing Ribbon Band Factory in Shenzhen. They can make rope with different…
Silicone factory
Silicone factory
Visiting the Silicone factory in Shenzhen. Silicone molding often requires 2 part molds, since you…
Plastic Injection Molding
Plastic Injection Molding
This is a plastic injection molding factory that we visited in Shenzhen. They made the…
Battery Factory
Battery Factory
Lipo batteries can be customized in different shapes and sizes by stacking sheets of coated…
PCB Factory
PCB Factory
Visiting the PCB factory in Shenzhen. This is a mid size PCB factory, they have…
Metal Die Cut
Metal Die Cut
You will need CNC  (I used a Desktop ShopBot) Hydraulic Press – 2000 to 3000…
Paper Making, Watermark & Pulp Painting
Paper Making, Watermark & Pulp Painting
You can control the thickness, color, material, and inlays of your own paper in the…
Mini Loom
Mini Loom
Based on Samantha Bittman’s mini loom design I made the Fab Loom stronger, bigger with…
Wooden Sandals
Wooden Sandals
It's pretty easy to make a pair of wooden Sandals when you have the shopbot…
Making of the Drawing Machine
Making of the Drawing Machine
The drawing machine was made in a hotel in China Shenzhen using the locally sourced…
Simple Laser Cut Puzzles
Simple Laser Cut Puzzles
The design allows the cardboard to friction fit at any opening sections. Different cardboard thickness…
One Video A Day Project
One Video A Day Project
I've decided to make a small film everyday, trying to get better at my storytelling,…
DIY Lab Shakers / Incubator shaker
DIY Lab Shakers / Incubator shaker
“A shaker is a piece of laboratory equipment used to mix, blend, or to agitate…
Ease Servo Movement
Ease Servo Movement
This is an easing example using delay. BTW, the timing based movement without delay will…
Linear Gripper
Linear Gripper
I used a compact linear actuator by Firgelli, it is both fast and strong. It…
Compact Capacitive Pressure Sensing
Compact Capacitive Pressure Sensing
For my robotic gripper, I want to make a small and compact Capacitive Pressure sensor…
Oriental Window Design
Oriental Window Design
I want to make a few Oriental Windows to accompany my latest project, Nostalgic Touch.…
Self-Reproduction Robot
Self-Reproduction Robot
Model the operation of a self-reproducing machine, think about how that might work, and in…
Hacking Roomba 560 as moving camera rig
Hacking Roomba 560 as moving camera rig
For this week, I want to turn my Roomba into my camera man. Similar to…
Light switch box
Light switch box
This is a very simple LED controller that cycles through different lighting mode using attend…
Big LCD Clock
Big LCD Clock
This is a simple big LCD clock using a LCD backpack. This allows you to…
Read and write data with Arduino Yun
Read and write data with Arduino Yun
In this project, I am storing finger gesture data to the SD card, then reading…
Intimacy Prosthetics
Intimacy Prosthetics
Intimacy Prosthetics consist of 2 wearable devices that 2 people would wear to communicate sense…
Mechanical Design & Machine Design
Mechanical Design & Machine Design
This week we get to play with Machines that make: cardboard stages. Working as a…
Interface & Application Programming
Interface & Application Programming
Node.js is great for interfacing browsers, running Javascript both on client side and server side.…
Networking & Communications
Networking & Communications
Nrf24L01 is really easy to program with RF24 Arduino library. The data transfer rate is…
Output Devices
Output Devices
Output devices could be display or motion with servo or stepper motors. In my case,…
Input Devices
Input Devices
Using the capacitive touch I created a linear potentiometer using the transmit-receive method. I am…
Composites
Composites
Composites is a good method to get a strong structure by combining 2 different materials.…
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