Our BristleBot project is included in an article on toothbrush projects in the December issue of Hackspace Magazine.
Category Archives: EMSL Projects
New Magnetic Easels for AxiDraw
We’ve just added two new magnetic easels for AxiDraw to our lineup of AxiDraw accessories. They are sturdy work-holding tools that provide an alternative method of positioning paper or other workpieces for use with the AxiDraw. A heavy-duty alternative to the regular clip easel, they can be used with binder clips or the included positioning rulers and magnets.
The Letter/A4 size easel works with the AxiDraw V3.
The Tabloid/A3 size easel works with the AxiDraw V3/A3 and the AxiDraw SE/A3 models.
Linkdump: October 2018
- Radio waves from our galaxy, the Milky Way, reflecting off the surface of the Moon.
- VFX Artist Reveals the Relative Sizes of Stars.
- The Forgotten Cold War Plan That Put a Ring of Copper Around the Earth.
- Two bits per transistor: high-density ROM in Intel’s 8087 floating point chip.
- The Chinese Mountain Cat.
- Stammer: A Stamp Hammer.
- Musical aside: The Cure, in their very first TV performance, played an early version of A Forest in 1979.
- Additive Pens: 3D printed fountain pens.
- DIY Radio Telescope.
- Textbook Crosswind Landing by a 747 (Youtube).
- The textbook Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation, by Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob, and Greg Humphreys, is now free to read online.
- 3D print your own Think-a-Dot.
- Fold N Fly: A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions.
- ᚛ᚈᚑᚋ ᚄᚉᚑᚈᚈ᚜ and ᚛ᚑᚌᚐᚋ᚜: The Ogham Space Mark.
- Hobby servos converted to 3D printed linear actuators.
- StringyPlotter: A program to produce continuous line drawings from black and white bitmap images.
Linkdump: August 2018
After 15kg of wool and over 💯 hrs of knitting, I’m finally ready to fly to the UK. Now I just need to pack the entire universe into my suitcase! I’ll see you all soon 🤗 pic.twitter.com/orBWAmi3bW
— Heart of Pluto (@HeartOfPluto_) August 26, 2018
- Knitted universe
- A 3D printable marble clock
- The ghosts haunting unicode
- Box Maker by Tiffany Tseng. Creates an SVG box pattern from dimensions or an STL file that you want to make a box for.
- The mysterious heart of the Roland TR-808 drum machine
- Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy
- Project Subway NYC: Beautiful 3D models and x-ray views of NYC subway architecture
- Formlabs guide to Adding Screw Threads to 3D Printed Parts
- Joseph Gerber invented many more things than the Gerber format (via @xek).
Two New Accessories for AxiDraw
We’ve just added two new accessories for the AxiDraw V3.
The first of them, shown above, is the XL Pen Clip — something that we’ve had a number of requests for. The pen holder on the AxiDraw normally fits pens and other instruments up to 5/8″ (16 mm) in diameter. However, this new XL pen clip can hold instruments up to 1″ (25.4 mm) in diameter.
That is to say, it can hold things like this freaking huge marker:
The second new accessory is a little more subtle: an Italic Pen Adapter that gives the AxiDraw a “right handed” grip on pens.
It’s a little bracket of anodized aluminum, with captured screws and threaded inserts, which rotates the AxiDraw pen clip 45° out from the X-axis of the AxiDraw. This angle can give a slightly more “natural” look to certain types of handwriting-like plotting.
And of course, it’s ideal for use with various types of blunt-tipped pens, including chisel-point felt tip pens as well as pens with stub and italic nibs.
Both the XL Pen Clip and the Italic Pen Adapter are in stock at the Evil Mad Scientist shop. They join the Rigid End Effector and Tripod Mount on our AxiDraw Accessories page.
New Book: 10 LED Projects for Geeks
We just got our author copies of 10 LED Projects for Geeks! Our friend John Baichtal shepherded this book into the world as its editor, getting contributions from a great set of folks.
The book, published by No Starch Press, turned out beautifully. It has good pictures, clear drawings, and bright colors.
It brings a few of our classic projects onto the printed page, including LED-lit Sea Urchins, Electric Origami, the Dark Detecting LED, and Edge-lit Cards. Thank you, John, for letting us be a part of this!
Linkdump: May 2018
- The cyanometer, an antique instrument to measure blueness of the sky.
(Here is how to make your own.) - Make a Mini NeXT Raspberry Pi case
- Miss Flyer: A laser cut misprint to paper airplane converter
- Gravitational waves: The first six detections as 3D-printable models
- Gunnel (gunwale) pumping: A way to propel a canoe without paddles
- Buffalo Waterfront Museum of Vintage Label Makers
- Planetary orbits for the Heliocentric and Geocentric systems visualized
- Inside the 76477 Space Invaders sound effect chip by Ken Shirriff
- World Record Stack of Waffles
- What are those crystals in hard cheeses?
- The curious case of the Apollo 4 Earth images
Three Fives Kit build video at Hackster.io
Alex at Hackster.io posted an awesome build video for the Three Fives Kit!
Linkdump: April 2018
- Dynamic Müller-Lyer Illusion
- Could Venus have a bacterial infection?
- How the bones in your hand change as you grow up
- Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? Probing a simulated 6502 and evaluating it like a set of neurons
- A Sinclair Scientific Calculator Emulator that you can build
- A LaTeX package to add coffee stains
- Diffraction gratings, now in chocolate (YouTube, via Hackaday)
- LED Snailies?
- Precise Parts: Custom machined adapters for astronomy
- Sam Zeloof lithographically builds an amplifier IC in his garage
- An Exploration into 3D Printing on Pre-stretched Fabric
Linkdump: March 2018
- Quick Sort explained by IDEA instructions
- Daytime fireworks are a thing. (Second example.)
- An air breathing electric motor for low earth orbit satellites
- Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes
- How two photographers captured the same millisecond in time
- 8-bit emergency kit
- Urgent Need To Be Remembered, an anamorphic sculpture by Jonty Hurwitz
- A video showing the inside of an automatic mahjong table. Watch carefully to see how the tiles are flipped upright.
