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ELE-0033 Bare Conductive Paint Pens have special ink that conducts electricity. Stick some LEDs and a battery to a piece of cardboard, then draw your circuit and the lights will work! This is [...]

This is one of my first Laser cutting experiments. Even though this isn’t the best example of what I can cut I feel it’s worth sharing because it helped me get a lot better. I needed [...]

ELE-0034 Raspberry Pi Model B is a full computer the size of a credit card. Add a keyboard and mouse to use it on the spot or simply connect a network cable to run it over the web. We have [...]

Purpose 3D printers, laser cutters, water jet cutters, robot arms, delta robots, stewart platforms, the Makelangelo: all of these are examples of computer numerical control (CNC) machines. CNC [...]

I make no secret that I got a lot of inspiration for the Makelangelo from Jürg Lehni’s Hektor. I wrote to him in July to let him know how much I admire his work and ask questions about how [...]

The Makelangelo is our internationally reknown picture drawing robot. People asked us to go big so that’s what we’re working on – making a giant version to spray paint murals. [...]

This is the lamp I made for the Illuminares Lantern Festival 2013 here in Vancouver BC. If you have access to a laser cutter, some design software like inkscape then you can follow these steps to [...]

See all the pictures and read about it on Imgur My first customer for laser cutting.  Woo!  Farrell runs the Maker mobile truck in Vancouver and is a regular at the VHS.  He needed a reliable, [...]