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Hello All, It’s been a while. Life has been busy, and honestly, I didn’t think I had much to share—until today. Between work, the kids, and the endless cycle of weekend birthday parties, my creative time is limited. It’s easy to get distracted by the state of the world, too; sometimes it feels like we re Continue reading Building a Custom Weather Station with ESP32
Hi all, Should I bring the blog back? What content would you be interested in?
It looks like I haven t posted anything new here in awhile. To be honest, other than this update, I might not for awhile more as 2020 and 2021 has been pretty crazy and busy. Lots of life changes in such a short time, and just not enough time to do them all. In some ways Continue reading Gearing Up: new website / business
So today I decided to open my Christmas Watermelon that is a sub-project of my [citron melon x domestic watermelon] breeding project that is on the Experimental Farm Network. It is the hope to breed a citron-watermelon hybrid to be a sweet winter edible watermelon that is harvested before the first snow at the end Continue reading Christmas Watermelon 2020?
This past year I was attending Colorado State University for a degree in plant breeding in the department of soil and crop sciences. While I was there I had the wonderful opportunity to join a lab that is working on all kinds of interesting atmospheric and plant-related sensors and IoT electronics that could change the Continue reading Capacitive Soil Sensor Prototypes
Today I am writing to let you know that in tribute to my old blog post about helping my dad clone a board for the HP / Agilent / Keysight 3458A multimeter that I have decided to make it open source. There is no licence, it s public domain. Do what you will with it. Hopefully Continue reading LTZ1000 Precision Reference HP / Agilent / Keysight Clone: Released as Open Source
So it has been awhile since I worked on this project, but I am happy to report that after a few weeks of minor frustration with marlin hiccups I have now started to make big progress again. My top objectives are: 1. To get a Lulzbot Mini 1 modded (with minimal effort) to have a Continue reading Lulzbot Mini / Prusa Mini Hybrid: Update #2: Marlin Updates, Novel Bed Mount, Octoprint, PrusaSlicer and…
Today i finally had some time to try and get my Lulzbot-Mini Prusa Hybrid bed working. I made some adapter cables to connect the Prusa Mini heat bed to my Lulzbot Mini electronics. They work great. The bed heats up very fast, probably better than the original Lulzbot heat mat. And it has a really Continue reading Lulzbot-Prusa Mini Hybrid: First Test Print
Progress update on my Lulzbot mini mod to use a Prusa Mini metal flexible bed plate!
Since getting my new Prusa Mini I ve been using it mostly for printing with ninjaflex, believe it or not. My homemade lulzbot mini was able to print nylon but i was never able to use ninjaflex (without buying or making another printhead capable of doing so). I do plan to do that at some point, Continue reading Prusa Mini: First Prints with Ninjaflex