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Steven’s Makelangelo Timelapses for Reddit Holiday Greeting Card Exchange 2012

Fellow VHS member Steven has made a couple of timelapse videos with a Makelangelo.

Awesome!

You can see in the Reddit heart video the pen is drying up at the picture continues.

The Cracking is probably due to the bobbins slipping. Actually… it could also be caused by radical changes in bobbin diameter. If the string is poorly wound around the bobbin then the bobbin could be “lumpy”. The best way to fix it would be to wind the bobbins very carefully.

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Bobbins ordered from China

I’m partnering with a Chinese manufacturer to make my bobbins now. The best price I could get locally was $6/pc and they offered $4/pc after shipping and before import fees, which is still cheaper. So I got 100 units, enough to cover me for the next few weeks. After that we’ll see about ordering more.

PS: Here’s an STL model of the part on Thingiverse. If you want to beat that price, I’d love to buy from you.

What does that mean? It means the last of my production problems are solved in the current model. I can focus on improving the software and tackling some of my other projects. I’m a little embarrassed that I’ve been claiming the software will be great and never dedicating time to make it happen. Send me your feedback! I want to know what works and what doesn’t. Please comment on Github.

Next time I release a new product I’m going to have all these production questions solved BEFORE the product hits the store. I want people from day 1 to be able to say how awesome it is. Now let’s see if I learned my lesson.

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Makelangelo software update

Late night coding – what could possibly go wrong? Based on some most awesome feedback from Mr. Steven, I’ve added a few issues to Github and then fixed & closed a few of them. Maybe tomorrow night I can tackle some of the rest.

Experimental branch only!

+ added a picture to configure limits that should make things clearer.
+ added a version number (github commit #) to about page.

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