I Just Finished Some Beer Transporters
I wanted to attempt making several presents with my CNC. Just to try out replicating and then building several versions of the same thing. I think they cam o...
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A Laptop Desk For My Daughter
I just finished a laptop desk for my daughter after she saw the one I made for myself. Her favorite color, for now, is purple. I used purple dye on the board...
Adding A 4th Axis To My Cncrp4896 Pro
I ordered a 4th axis from AliExpress the other day. There was a sale, so I got it in hand within a week and it cost me around $400 shipped. Now that I have i...
Water Drop Ripple On Wood Cnc Project
I purchased a CNC router parts pro 4896 a while back. Took a month before I could build it and months to get time to do anything else with it. Finally, I’m s...
Just Bought A Large Cnc Router
3 weeks until I have my shipment, and then I will be diving in to this large format CNC router. I purchased mine from CNCrouterparts and so far they have bee...
Hue Dimmer Switch Possible Fix
I have been having many problems with the hue lighting system. About 10-15 lights regularly loose connectivity and show as not communicating. Most of them wi...
Home Automation And The Hue Api
I have been using Openhab for over two years now and most of the time I have used the Hue bridge and lights to connect Zigbee devices to my network. I only u...
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Openhab 2 And Icon Possibilities
In the free time that I have, I am attempting to redesign the icons for openhab. I want to stay in line somewhat with the material design google now has on t...
Sidetrack From A Hackaday Post
While reading hackaday, I saw that someone copper plated a 3d print using a solution of acetone and graphite powder. After quickly creating some copper aceta...
A Novel Method Of Sensing
While listening to embedded, a podcast on embedded development, the interviewee described how he was capable of sensing the pulses emitted from the common wa...
New Year And A New House
So, even though i have a million projects I would like to be able to dedicate myself to, I have real matters to deal with.
Decent Add On For The Davinci With A Few Issues
XYZ Da Vinci Aftermarket Spool Kit found on #Thingiverse http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:592197
Anyone Want To Modify Or Improve My Vr Headset Design
https://drive.google.com/folder/d/0B2I6c7T2dqQ2S1hnVmhtbHI5ZXc/edit
Yet Another Usb Issue
Yesterday I rewrote the HID descriptors to allow for only buttons. the bits used are 0x01-0x20 and windows loads the driver fine. But for some reason the but...
Possible Mobile Vr Positioning System For Any Device
I have recently stated to work with the vuforia sdk for unity. It is for ar, but it’s possible to remove the camera feed used as the background to them use t...
New Way To Create Terrain Assets
It’s probably crazy expensive, but maybe rental will be an option. You could go somewhere, fly it around and import in to your scene. Crazy times.
Usb Woes 1
After all of the work put in to understanding hid usb and creating my pinball controller, I sat down today and created a simple pinball game in unity.
The Future Of Ellen
They definitely have the uncanny valley thing going for it. But that will slowly disappear and we will see this type of reality as normal.
Revised Pinball Controller Code
So with my last attempt, I was using a SPST switch and attempting to use a spring to release the button. After several failed linear pots and a half working ...
Finally Figured It Out
And now that I have it figured out, I feel stupid. I guess sleeping on it works.