This is a project from a long time ago. I thought it would be cool and make me the hit of the parties to have an LED hat that lights up and did cool animation things for a dance. Turns out the hat won’t help meeting people as much as I thought. None the less, […]
This is my “fully” 3D printed foam dart blaster! It was inspired by Nerf’s toy guns that fire foam darts at children. I wanted something a little more suited for adults and much more customizable. Inspiration: For my Dynamics of Machinery class I needed to build a project. Around this time is when my […]
Introduction: The original idea of the robot was to create a Octopod (eight legged) robot. Octopods can solve a lot of movement problems that robots have. The robot we designed is holonomic, once the code is in place for it to move in all directions. Through part malfunctions and printers breaking down, we have sense […]
My experience with the Fire Stick has not been a great one. I wanted a device that would let me watch movies, TV, and YouTube from the couch. The problem, I wanted it cheap and easy. The Fire Stick comes in at $40 seemed like a good fit from the reviews I saw and against the […]
Introduction: I love robots! Humanoid robots are my favorite. Sine I was little I loved the idea of a toy that you could play with while at the same time it looked like a human. Emulating the human form is the goal of humanoid robots. It would be a lot easier to make a four […]
Back in the summer of 2014 I bought a Printrbot Simple 1405. It was a nice little printer with a build volume of 100x100x120mm. It took about two days to assemble to printer and another day to get the software working. This is one of the first thing is made, a Low Poly Squirtle. This was […]
Finally! The powerful and low-cost Teensy can control those cool RGB LED Panels. Here I’ll explain a bit about how the sketch came to be and how you can use it in your project. To begin I’ll say I am not a programmer. That being said I still wanted to use the powerful Teensy 3.1 […]
