Interesting idea — crowds sourcing the physcial part of digital fabrication.
www.100kgarages.com
“It has been the risk-takers, the doers, the Makers of things – some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.” Barak Obama, Inaugural Speech 1/2009
Entries Tagged as 'Brain Dump'
100kGarages
May 13th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: Digital Fabrication · rapid prototyping
GeckoDrive Servo/Stepper Motor FAQs
May 10th, 2009 No Comments
Lot’s of good general information about stepper and servro motors… What are the advantages/disadvantages between steppers and servos? Should I use servos or steppers in my machine? Torque & micro/full stepping?
geckodrive.com/faq.aspx?n=783775
Tags: servo · stepper motors
Bruce Sterling: Generative Art and Design
May 7th, 2009 No Comments
Bruce Sterling workshop at Fabrica entitled “Generative Art and Design: Critical Assessments”
www.fabrica.it/workshops/sterling_videos.html
Also available via Google video: video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3640928883631876365
Tags: Bruce Sterling · mathematical art
Enrico Dini: Large Scale (6m x 6m x 1m) 3D Printing
May 7th, 2009 No Comments
Large scale 3D printing using sand and epoxy resin. The results resemble sandstone, with strength comparable to reinforced concrete. The process sounds simular to the way Zcorp printers work, though with a different scale & resolutions (25 DPI).
www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/217-3D-printing-buildings-interview-with-Enrico-Dini-of-D_Shape.html
Tags: rapid prototyping
Rapid Prototyping and Mathematical Art
May 7th, 2009 No Comments
Talk given to the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club by Craig S. Kaplan — video and slides. “Quick tour of technologies, techniques and applications for computer-aided manufacturing in 2D and 3D”. Lot’s of good pictures of prominent artists in the area, examples of both additive and subtractive processes.
csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/Rapid Prototyping and Mathematical Art
Tags: mathematical art · rapid prototyping
Rheoscopic Resources
May 5th, 2009 No Comments
Rheoscopic fluids allow you to current flows — think of a bottle of pearlescent shampoo.
Paul Matisse created a number of Kalliroscopes, which use rheoscopic fluid to display fluid flow. Info on Matisses’s work, and has rheoscopic fluid for sale.
www.kalliroscope.com (Warning – horrible Java menus!)
Another source - Pearl Swirl Rheoscopic Concentrate from Steve Spangler Science
Tags: kalliroscope · rheoscopic fluid
Arduino I2C
May 4th, 2009 No Comments
Arduino Expansion I/O via I2C
www.neufeld.newton.ks.us/electronics/?p=241
Arduino and the Two-Wire Interface (TWI/I2C) Including A Short Didactic Parenthetical On Making TWI Work On An Arduino Mini
www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2007/01/11/arduino-and-twi/
Control of Stepping Motors – A Tutorial
April 2nd, 2009 No Comments
A little old, but lots of good information.
“This tutorial covers the basic principles of stepping motors and stepping motor control systems, including both the physics of steppers, the electronics of the basic control systems, and software architectures appropriate for motor control.”
www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/step/
Tags: motion control · stepper motors · tutorial
Smoothstep interpolation for motion control
March 8th, 2009 No Comments
“Adding little smoothness to all kinds of movement, be it actual movement of the camera, some object, fading of lights, fading in and out etc, makes things much more enjoyable to watch. Sharp movements and changes are jarring and should be avoided.
danthompsonsblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/smoothstep-interpolation-with-arduino.html
sol.gfxile.net/interpolation/index.html
For example, X ranges between points A and B in N steps.
With linear interpolation:
for [...]
Tags: algorithms · interpolation · motion control
I2C Bus for ATtiny and ATmega
February 3rd, 2009 No Comments
Extending Atmel chips via I2C devices. Good intro on I2C, drivers, resources.
www.instructables.com/id/I2C_Bus_for_ATtiny_and_ATmega
