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Category Archives: Hardware
Art and the Arduino
It is a strange sight, like a snapshot of an Olympic swimming competition taken from below. Five swimmers, frozen in position, pulse with life. A light from each swimmer’s heart beats and illuminates the swimmer briefly. As the heart’s light … Continue reading
Machine Shop Panorama
Todd was testing out his 3D printed panorama tripod mount for his camera and came up with this awesome shot of our machine shop:
Seat Belt Bicycle Tire Upgrade
I was sick of getting flat bicycle tires, so on reading a few seat belt bike tire liner tricks online, I was ready to give it a shot. Having a few donor seat belts (that also found their way onto … Continue reading
Member Projects – Chicken Coop Door and Bicycle Generator
Chicken Coop Automatic Door: Rather than paying several hundred dollars for an automatic door system, Larry and Carol created a smart door by using junk around Sector67. The final product is composed of an expensive looking Swiss DC motor, some … Continue reading
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Tagged 4th of July, Arduino, Bike Generator, Chicken Coop Door, Member Projects
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Train Detecting Automatic Window Closer
A Sector67 member has the fortune to live in a really cheap apartment – only after the lease was a long signed and summer set in did it finally dawn on him why rent was cheap – those parallel steel … Continue reading
Posted in Arduino, Hardware
Tagged 3D printed, Arduino, hard drive failure, image processing, image recognition, Train Detection
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Power Wheels Running
The car was built in 2 days, but tweaking took a few weeks. . . We’ve got 2.5 HP worth of propulsion and a Lithium Ion battery to boot! Everything seems to be working, it’ll soon be sitting comfortable in … Continue reading
Week(s) in Updates:
Yes, we’ve again lost a week towards the end of the month, this seems to happen every month but no worries – just makes for a longer post: Lots going on this week, we finally got a machine mounted near … Continue reading
Posted in Hardware, News
Tagged 3D printing, ants, bicycle blender, dream bikes, FLIR camera, MakerBot, pizza, SMSMyBus, Week in updates
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High Speed Camera
One of the members owns a Casio EX-F1 that can shoot 600 and 1200 FPS video so of course we were hunting up things to shoot in slow motion: One of the most interesting was watching the Makerbot jump all … Continue reading
Casting Update
There’s been a lot of interest in our aluminum casting efforts. We’ve stepped things up to our first lost foam casting exercise that ultimately resulted in failure with a lot of learning in the process: Using a foam blank machined … Continue reading
This Month in Projects
Yes, it’s been a while, hope you don’t feel terribly neglected at the lack of updates Lots of cool things going on as always: A tesla coil in need of a few tweaks showed up and its spare transformer quickly … Continue reading
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