How’s this for awesome? To make this Jaquard loom the inventors also made a coil-winding robot so they could make electromagnets for the loom. That’s a lot of steps!
Here’s the paper describing the loom and several other machines. Apparently this is made by the same people who did the CoreXY project. Neat!
Timing belts and their matching pulleys are some of the basic components of so many machines. You can…
…make a loop around a bar and push/pull things like in CNC machines like plotters, laser cutters, and 3D printers.
…make a loop around two different size circles and create gearing (trade speed for power and precision)
…make Rolamite!
…make CoreXY cartesian motion systems.
and much much more. We now carry two widths of open-ended belt and pulleys to match. Order by the meter in lengths up to 20m long. The pulleys come with set screws and fit perfectly on the 5mm shaft of our NEMA17 stepper motors.
They say that 80% of your success comes from 20% of your time. Find that 20% and do more of that. I couldn’t agree more – some of the best use of my time is when people give me a golden nugget of a suggestion and I use it to improve what I’m doing and how I interact with you. Thank you for your great feedback. Keep it coming!
Do I digress? Perhaps I do. The coffee is kicking in.
You should start to see human-readable URLs show up in the store now, too. Thank you to all those kind SEO spambots that needed to let me know. You have been heard. You can help someone else now.
The store now has back in stock notifications. Want something we don’t carry much of any more? Now it’s even easier to let me know.
Heh. Have I been making it hard to leave feedback about how hard it is to leave feedback? Gah! Irony.
A great big shout out to CEON for their great ZenCart plugins that made these changes possible. I’ve been programming for 20 years and I’ve rarely seen such well documented, easy to use code. Nicely done!
Also I’m running a small survey over on reddit. The question is: would you rather get all the parts for a kit, or just the instructions and the parts and get the rest yourself? Let me know where you stand.
Are you looking to build a robot to take care of another human being? The official safety guide is out now. The abstract says,
“ISO 13482:2014 specifies requirements and guidelines for the inherently safe design, protective measures, and information for use of personal care robots, in particular the following three types of personal care robots: mobile servant robot; physical assistant robot; [and] person carrier robot.”
Asides from all the usual work of shipping kits and helping people I’ve been hard at working growing my laser cutting business with an instangram project called #28daysoflaser. Every day I post something new I make with my laser cutter. Follow along and share with your friends, please.
I’m also preparing for 6 different public events this year:
Come on out and say hi! I love meeting new people and I’d love to pick your brain about making this site more useful to you.
