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The Bamboo labs X1 Carbon is an incredibly popular 3D printer. With its fast printing speeds, and its near flawless MMU (Multi-Material Unit), its an easy choice for those wanting a no hassle machine. Its closed source nature however, makes me leery to trust it over my Prusa MK4S. While the X1 is a faster printer, its ability to print with multiple material is not unique. Prusa does have an MMU…
Two months ago I lost my boy to cancer. For 13 years Lando was my best friend, and his loss was devastating. When I first brought him home, he would not let me trim his toe nails at all. The vet told me that if I played with/pet his feet all the time, he would get used to it and trimming his nails would no longer be a problem. Over time this turned into me holding his paw like it was a hand…
2020 was a dumpster fire of a year. Covid ravaged the planet, lockdowns destroyed my mental health and supply chain shortages became a thing. While once abundant as toilet paper, microchips have become as rare as a good Matrix movie. Sadly, no microchips, meant no hobby work. After months and months of not creating anything, I decided I would create with what I had, my 3D printer. In 2021, I…
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Intro After being apart of the #Badgelife community for the last several years, I figured it was finally time to actually pull my weight and create a badge. I’ve always loved Stargate, and figured making a badge that only did blinkenlights would be a much easier project to get out on a deadline. Overall the project was a success! Within a few days of posting it to twitter the badge had ~30k…
This is the first time I’ve ever posted something I did not design and build from scratch, but I felt like making an exception. For Christmas I wanted to build my father something. The problem is most of the things I build are not things he would necessarily want. I’ve always had a love of mechanical keyboards and thought one would serve as an excellent conduit for my DIY itch.…
Ad Victorium! Intro for muggles Many people do not like big watches. They are wrong. This “wonderfully ridiculous” watch in my line of large fallout themed watches is called “The Brotherhood of Steel” or the BOS watch . It was born out of various frustrations with its predecessor (the pipman ). The project took about two years from start to finish, mostly because I had…
Intro About two and a half years ago my wrist watch was beginning to fall apart. I had worn it for ten years, so this was not surprising. I happened to come across a slashdot article (yes I do still read slashdot every now and then) about watches for techies. Since I was in the market I gave the comments a good read. Some of the coolest features I read about where the ability to automatically set…
ts been a few weeks now since I purchased my Makerbot. I thought I’d share some projects created and some things I learned in the process. Overall the Makerbot is really easy to use. Most of my prints have come out really well. Others, not so much. The Successes The thing I am most proud of so far is my Dead Space Marker Replica. To those unfamiliar with Dead Space (and those who…
I bought a Makerbot Replicator 2 today. I don’t have a lot to show for it as of yet, but I am very excited about the future possibilities, like making custom 3d printed cases for my projects (like the GPS watch I am currently working on). With in half an hour I was able to create a few things. Anyways, bring on the media: I am nerding out about this far more than I should 😀
Flipping through one of my ThinkGeek catalogs and I noticed this light up Tony Stark Arc Reactor shirt. I noticed the price tag and figured for $30, I could probably build a better one myself. The problem was, I didn’t know where to start. Prior to building my temperature monitor I haven’t had much experience building things. After searching around on the net I found some rather nice…
This is an older entry for my first hardware project So I recently got into basic circuitry as a hobby. The Arduino is a really cool development platform. It is an open source hardware project that basically runs off C++ code. I wasn’t sure what to create for my first project, but I bought a lcd screen with the Arduino nano. After getting a basic hello world demo working, I decided that the…
$ whoami I am a Hacker currently living in the awesomeness that is Seattle Washington. I try to build awesome things in my downtime (some software, but mostly hardware projects these days). Other than building stuff I keep occupied with teasing my dog gaming and other geekery. I first got hooked on technology at five when I learned how to play frogger™ on my father’s computer. At twelve I…
Many years ago (about a decade) I had issues shutting my alarm clock off in my sleep. I decided I needed to do something drastic before I would get fired for showing up late to work. My solution: using my computer’s 5.1 surround sound to force me out of bed and to the other side of the room to shut off the noise. After about a week of development, QTalarm was born. The current version (…