Year: 2015

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New pictures in time for Maker Faire

Fellow VHS member Luke Brooks came by and took new pictures for the website yesterday. He’s a former Tinkerines employee with great gear and even better ideas.

Here’s my lab workbench up close for the About page:

Here’s the “spill shot” of the ROBO-0033 Makelangelo 2.5.2.

A spill shot should be everything included in the kit. I added the water bottles you should take from your local recycling and some hand tools for scale. We’ll be bringing this kit to Maker Faire.

Here’s the ROBO-0034 Makelangelo 3.2 along side some art created on this and similar machines.


We’ll be bringing this kit to Maker Faire.

Here’s the ROBO-0023 Arm3:

The last time I brought this to a fair American Airlines misinterpreted “FRAGILE” as “PLEASE CRUSH”. I’ll be leaving this baby at home.

We’re ahead of schedule here, so I’m going to spend the rest of the day setting up a quick order form to use at the fair. Tomorrow I’m going to pack everything for travel on Thursday, and by 10am Friday we should be ready and I’ll get to tour the grounds.

My favorite part of Maker Fair is the magic hour before the gates open when I get an exclusive peek at the show-to-be and I’m surrounded by people full of purpose and energy. Watch for my Friday post! It will have a map to our booth location and a few behind the scenes shots seen nowhere else.

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GcodeCNCDemo update May, 2015

I squeezed in some time tonight at the Vancouver Hack Space to fix GcodeCNCDemo.

All the demos in the github repository have been updated to support G02 and G03 arcs in the XY plane.

All the demos now also support checksums. You can send line numbers and a checksum bit between the ; and the \n to make sure your arduino correctly receives your message.

All of the demos will only work if your arduino is sending the newline (\n). You can turn on “send newline” from a dropdown in your arduino serial window. GcodeSender, a sister project, should already send the newline.

I’m sorry it’s taken so long, I’m working really hard to be ready for the Bay Area Maker Fair. In my vision, a person at the fair can see the Makelangelo, place an order at our booth, and get a tracking number in their email before they leave the building. We ordered parts that aren’t good enough and I’m working hard to replace them in time. Everything else is ready! We could ship the kits a week later, too, but that’s… that’s not the way I dream it should be.

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Makelangelo software update coming May 8, 2015

As part of the celebrations for the Bay Area Maker Faire we’ll be releasing software update 7.1.0 on May 5, 2015. Now we need your help to get language translations ready. (more…)

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New record: Biggest Makelangelo

@aggrav8d I did a big boy tonight! pic.twitter.com/YLnQjvFkK4

— tinyenormous (@tinyenormous) April 30, 2015

Twitter user tinyenormous sent in this entry for the #makelangelo contest and it’s easily the biggest makelangelo I’ve seen to date.

Measuring a whopping 10’x10′, he had to make his own extension cables.

“It was 10′ wide and around 10′ tall. The wall was painted with a whiteboard paint called ideapaint and It was writing with whiteboard markers.”

Here are some extra photographs of the giant makelangelo from the event. Make it the talking point of your next party.

If you have a larger machine, post it in the forums.