Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Maker Update: Coffee Mug CNC”.
This week on maker update a cnc mug maker, the future of 3d printed shoes particles, new iot rules, engine, a kid noise alarm, a crown for princess peach, a hoverboard robot and an over-the-top trampoline mod, hey, i’m donald bell and welcome to another maker update, we’re getting Started a little later than usual this week, but i hope everyone is doing well. I’Ve got a big show for you with a lot of projects and even some news, but first, let’s get started with the project of the week. Michael graham has been hard at work. Creating this mug mounted cnc pen plotter, he calls the mug-o-matic. The project is made up mostly of 3d printed parts, three servos, an arduino nano and a custom motor driver board. He calls the tiny, cnc pcb all assembled. You can send it g-code files just like a 3d printer or plotter, and will write your design to the mug. He also shows off an expansion thumbstick that you can use to manually draw designs with the plotter mechanism. It’S a silly but fun idea. He’S got a kickstarter plan for these in november, but you can find the part files and code to get started on your own over on his hackaday project page. It’S time for some news.
The future of 3d printed shoes might be here sooner than you think, youtuber rc life on printed up this 2014 sneaker design on thingiverse originally made by ignacio garce and found that they’re actually somewhat functional. He printed up a version in a cushy, ninjaflex, filament, similar to rubber and another, using thermoplastic polyurethane. After giving them a test run, he found that the ninjaflex version was more comfortable, while the polyurethane offered better support. I just think the fact that they held up at all shows a lot of potential for other designs. If we could marry up 3d printing culture and sneaker culture, there really could be a huge movement here.
In other news, iot boardmaker particle has announced a new drag-and-drop iot application builder called rules engine it’s currently in beta, but it works like a kind of if this than that for creating interactive cloud-based applications for particle boards. So if you want a temperature sensor to trigger a text message or a web app to trigger a relay switch, that turns the device on and off this new system allows you to map all that out visually. I have more projects to share with you, jeremy s cook made this interactive sound level meter that blinks, when the volume level gets too high. The idea was to make something so his kids could see when they’re being too loud. Of course, jeremy points out.
It also acts as a fun game for kids to test how loud they can be. Honestly, i just love the look of this project. Jeremy is using a sandwich of plywood and clear acrylic, both cut on a cnc router, but i can also imagine getting something close to this. With a hole saw inside, you’ve got an arduino nano, a small microphone breakout board, a power switch rechargeable battery and a strip of addressable leds.
There’S also a dip switch in here that allows you to change into different modes, including one. That’S just there to look pretty the ruiz brothers have a new cosplay project up it’s a 3d printed princess peach crown with light up jewels, a 10 gemma, m0 board, a small rechargeable battery pack and some of those big gummy style. Leds are all you need for electronics. The crown design includes a fitting for a 3d printed headband to keep the tiny thing on your head. There’S also an optional set of horns that you can print out to make this into a bowsette crown on hackaday. Isabel samova has a guide on making a diy robot, based on those motorized hoverboards that were all the rage a few years ago. She calls this the hoverbot. It involves stripping the hoverboard parts from its frame and creating a new one. You also need to connect up a raspberry pi and a usb webcam, a clean looking javascript application controls.
The whole thing you can find everything you need on the project’s hackaday and github pages. I just think it’s cool to see old hoverboards, put to good use on makershare mao wu posted a guide on making this interactive trampoline. That includes multiple rows of lights and a touch screen with sounds and games that respond to the jumping.
It’S a cool, crazy rig and the guide is light on details, but it’s a cool concept that you can build on. Finally, andrew bond has a design for this coin sorter over on thingiverse. It’S a multi-part build that will take some time to print and assemble, but you get a useful payoff at the end. I have a bunch of tips to share this week too many tips.
Maybe adafruit has a new product in stock. That’S pretty unique. It’S called the xero stem and it’s a little six dollar adapter for your pi zero. That turns it into a usb dongle.
It can hold power over the connection and, more importantly, with a little coating, you can make your pi act as a usb device on make scene. Gareth, branwin’s tips of the week column includes a bunch of bob claggett tips, including advice on choosing your first 3d printer. There’S also a great one from c jane drill on using a carpenter’s pencil as a ruler on thingiverse. I found this 3d printed 9-volt battery holder by andrew yaravoy.
If you have a bunch of jumper wires handy this design lets you just snap them in as battery leads for a simple 9-volt battery pack, also on thingiverse mojit boyt posted a design for an led jig that allows you to create these beautiful, copper, wire, matrix designs And if you’re not already following mohit on instagram, get on it, his work is gorgeous the adafruit jobs board is back up and running with postings for engineering and maker related jobs, it’s free to use and free to post and over on the cool tools blog. I have a video up comparing the differences between standard pvc coated, hookup wire and silicone coated wire. I even do a fun little torch test maker faires, a ton of fares this weekend, including denver, colorado, rome, italy, shenzhen, china, houston, texas, our house, denmark, bidford maine chisnow. In the republic of moldova, charlotte north carolina and reno sparks nevada, there’s also the maker music festival in sebastopol this saturday at chimera arts and coming up on november, 2nd through the 4th there’s the hackaday super con in pasadena california. It looks like a great lineup of toxin workshops if you’re in the area or if you can swing into some kind of professional development for work, don’t miss it and that does it, for this week’s show be sure to subscribe, leave a thumbs up leave a comment. Consider joining the maker update email list where you can get the show notes emailed out to you automatically every week with a few bonus projects thrown in and as a reminder, i’m not a make employee.
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