Did you build a Makelangelo 2.5 with an Adatruit Motor Shield v2? Here’s a trick I found today that’ll give you a 4x speed boost.
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Makelangelos are a success and I wonder if licensing is the way to grow so I can hire staff and afford all the R&D I’m putting into my super weapon other projects. I’m giving the question due consideration and I’d love your feedback in the comments below.
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When setting up parts for laser cutting, I’ve developed a few golden rules. Part labels is only the newest. (more…)
This post is about how to modify the open source code for the Makelangelo and bend it to your will. I hope to teach you how to create new styles of drawing for the Makelangelo so that you can make it more artsy or more funny or … well, whatever you want to do with it, right? Right.
Warning! This post… this post is for the ambitious among you. It’s not easy, but like they say: nothing worth doing is easy. (more…)
I’m a big fan of Kaizen, the process of continual refinement. Opportunity is everywhere if you’re looking for it. Sometimes it’s obvious like “hey man, I think you should put a link to X on page Y of your tutorial!” …Ok! Sometimes it’s more subtle, like when a customer on the phone tries to describe a part for which they have no name.
On the good suggestion of Sarah Petkus of RobotArmy I’ve started putting part numbers right on all my laser cut pieces. Now I realize it was a hole in my inventory control system. I had a separate inventory number for every item in the store, but the laser cut parts were clumped together as “laser cut parts for kit X”. Now that I have separate part numbers I can… (more…)
