Category Archives: Tinkering

Using an arduino and android phone to make an autonomous RC car

Posted on August 24, 2015 by robertwilkie

Cool build, if you have an extra $100 and an android phone to spare, its a nice build for an RC car.  Now if you could combine this with open sentry project, our overlords will be taking over next.  🙂 … Continue reading →

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Check out those…heels

Posted on August 24, 2015 by robertwilkie

This girl printed out her own high heel shoes that, conceal stuff to hack into buildings.  And yes they are fake (you know what I mean).  This isn’t the first post I have seen with cool 3D print combined with … Continue reading →

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Simple DC Motor control with an arduino

Posted on August 24, 2015 by robertwilkie

I have been looking for some simple DC motor control tutorials with an arduino.  Here is what I found sofar. https://www.openhomeautomation.net/remotely-controlling-a-motor-using-arduino-python-and-php/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Simple-2-way-motor-control-for-the-arduino/  

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MIT App Inventor 2

Posted on August 24, 2015 by robertwilkie

This looks interesting.  Its a tool from MIT to write simple apps for Android.  The tool is a basic WebUI IDE for Android and looks like its mostly “wizard based” for apps.  I haven’t gotten too far in using it … Continue reading →

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3D printing with glass

Posted on August 24, 2015 by robertwilkie

I’ll stick to plastic for now considering the temps this has to play with.  Still cool build. http://hackaday.com/2015/08/22/mits-glass-3d-printer/

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Google has native support for barcodes

Posted on August 24, 2015 by robertwilkie

Well added to google play store anyways.  I was a bit surpised this functionality wasn’t already there. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/08/barcode-detection-in-google-play.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FhsDu+%28Android+Developers+Blog%29

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GitHubs top Coding Languages

Posted on August 21, 2015 by robertwilkie

I found this an interesting article.  It shows some trends that are expected, C going down in the past few years and Objective C.  Perl took quiet a nosedive and seems to have fallen off.  I was surprised at the … Continue reading →

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Simple out of filament detector

Posted on August 21, 2015 by robertwilkie

Interesting build, got this from the last article.  Basically its a counter that will count how many times the spool has spun around, and make noise after that count.  Thats one way to tell if you are “out” of filament.  … Continue reading →

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Interesting, CUPS for driving a 3D printer

Posted on August 21, 2015 by robertwilkie

Interesting article about how to get 3D printing moving more for consumers, we need better drivers.  And points out how CUPS, which is typically for 2D printing, is starting to go in that directions. http://hackaday.com/2015/08/20/drivers-for-3d-printers-and-why-we-need-them/

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Build an mini CNC Foam Cutter

Posted on August 21, 2015 by robertwilkie

OK I am not sure how the cutter bit works, But I like the build overall for cutting the bar of foam over 2 CDROM drives and a scraped printer drive assembly. http://www.instructables.com/id/Mini-CNC-Foam-Cutter/

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