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New Products – March 20, 2013

ELE-0024 50cm Servo Extension Cord

This extension cord is used to operate servos at a distance. A perfect example are the Makelangelos – two of these cords are in every kit so you art robot can lift the pen.

MECH-0020 Makelangelo Box

Just the laser cut parts for the box ma’am. Just the parts.

Picture coming soon

MECH-0013 Makelangelo Pen Holder v2

Just the laser cut parts for the box ma’am. Just the parts.

Picture coming soon

ROB-0010 Rotary Stewart Platform

This kit is extremely new and highly experimental. I hope it will evolve into the standard Stewart Platform used by university students everywhere. I think it’s high time students started acting smart and pooling their resources. If we work together to make the code better it will be a kick ass machine.

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3D Print your next Home – on the Moon

3D printing buildings is coming, and it will radically change architecture. More importantly it will be faster, safer, cheaper, and allow more creativity.

Just get one on a rocket for me, because I want a moon base.

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You know they have a machine for that, right?

On the way to the post office to deliver kits I saw a new driveway being made with paving stones.

It reminded me of this machine that lays whole streets.

Comment with your favorite example of a job that is now done (or made easier) with a machine.

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Why Wikis Work for Me

I love my personal wiki. I use a WikiMedia wiki set to private and document all my procedures and equipment there. So far it’s really saved me a lot of personal headache. One such incident happened just now and inspired me to write about it.

Today I had to replace the filament in a 3D printer. If I had not checked the wiki for the how-to I would have forgotten a critical step (tightening the idler screws). It would have wasted material and cost me 30 minutes. So the 5 minutes I spent writing down the steps have already paid for themselves 6 times over.

I also started to link pages back and forth today for the first time. “3d printers” links to “how to change the filament” and now back. So much easier to navigate! I look forward to the first time an employee uses the documents instead of asking me for help. Heck, I look forward to creating jobs and having employees.

Also, because you love pictures as much as I do, here’s what I think will be the last version of the Rotary Stewart Platform. The code is already on Github. I spent the morning assembling it and making videos for the product launch. I still need to dot a few ‘I’s and cross a few ‘T’s before I’m ready to rock. Measure twice, cut once!

Also, here’s a gallery of sights from the Science World 3D Printer Village that happened this weekend hosted on Imgur.