Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Maker Update: A TV For Lazy People”.
This week on maker update a tv for lazy people, a lego cricket, rover, milk, jug skulls, an el nixie clock, a boat, a box, a rock tumbler led holders and tinkercads new fusion feature, hey, i’m donald bell and welcome to another maker update. I hope you guys are doing great. I have what might be the most project, packed episode of maker update, yet here to share with you so get comfy and let’s start things off with the project of the week. Do you ever lie down on the couch and wish your tv could turn sideways to match up? Well, micasaurus has solved the problem with this remote controlled motorized tv mount using laser-cut plywood gears, a 12-volt, high, torque motor and an articulating wall mount mike has cooked up this tv stand that can rotate your tv in either direction using a simple, remote control. Of course, if another person is also watching tv, you’re, probably gon na, have to fight over the best angle, you can find a link to mike’s full instructable down in the show notes it’s time for some news.
This past week, we learned that printerbot, one of the pioneers of the desktop 3d printing world is closing up a goodbye note from the founder brook drum on the printerbot website points to low sales as the reason for closing. He also notes a new site that will sell replacement parts for existing customers. Still, it’s a bummer to see. Printerbot close i’ve got a lot of other projects to share over on adafruit the ruiz brothers.
Have this guide for a cricut based lego robot by combining a servo, some inexpensive motors, a playground express board and a cricut breakout board? You have this relatively inexpensive programmable rover that you can dress up with all kinds of lego bricks. What makes this such a big deal is that the lego mindstorms equivalent of this is a 350 dollar kit. Using this system, you can use the microsoft make code, drag and drop blocks to code, your robot in addition to python or arduino plus you get support for neopixels, capacitive touch and speaker output. There are a lot of educational rover bots out there, but with the price features and lego compatibility here, i’d be surprised if this one doesn’t get some traction skulls halloween is coming and if you need skulls in bulk jason shows you how to make them out of Old milk jugs using a resin master skull, some scissors and a heat gun. You can shape the milk jug plastic onto the contours of the skull underneath it. The real trick is painting them when they’re done so that you can get an authentic look but jason walks. You through some great tips on that too ghost edema has this detailed guide on making a nixie tube style clock using el wire and a 3d printed template. The build involves 40 electroluminescent wires controlled by a single arduino, but with some substantial electronics in between there are actually three different versions of this design documented in the instructable one using relays and two using transistors, but no matter which way you go.
It’S an intimidating, build both in terms of electronics and winding and routing all those el wires. Still the payoff is super cool and, unlike a nixie tube, you can scale this thing up, really big for something easier to accomplish. On the weekend, greg zumwalt has an instructable on creating this wi-fi controlled toy boat. The design uses two gear dc motors, a cheap motor controller, a lipo battery and an arduino compatible esp32 board like all of greg’s work. The 3d print design is incredible. You have to do a little extra work to glue and seal up the boat to make it watertight, but it looks like a fun payoff over on thingiverse 3d printing world. Has this ingenious secret puzzle box? There are 12 parts to this design plus a pen spring, and some super glue that you’ll need to provide, considering how complicated it is to open up. It actually looks like a relatively approachable, build and a fun gift to give to someone.
This particular design has butterflies on it, but a blank version is also included that you can dress up. However, you like finally jonathan lundstrom posted this 3d printed rock tumbler great for polishing up metal 3d prints, the design uses some threaded rod, four bearings and a 12 volt dc motor. The results look really clean and give his bronze prints a nice shine. I also imagine it works well for polishing rocks now it’s time for some tips.
Tiffany zhang made this free web app called stencilfy. That makes stencil-ready versions of any text using any font. You can download the result as an svg file and load it into your laser cutter or 3d printer speaking of free web apps. Tinkercad has added a new send to fusion 360 feature, i’m a proud, tinkercad user, but there are definitely times when you run up against the limitation and it’s nice to be able to bounce your design over to fusion bevel. Some edges smooth out your model for 3d printing or do a fancy render barb noren from barb makes things has a video up on five ways to hold leds onto a coin cell, from tape to magnets to clever 3d printed holders? There’S bound to be one here that surprises you, the latest bob claggett bits video goes over different types of wood varnish and their best uses. I always learn something from bob’s videos. Cool tools has my video review up for the bucket boss, parachute bag. I’Ve been using this bag for almost a year now to hold and organize my screws, and it’s been great, there’s a link to the review in the show notes, along with a video showing how i organize it over on theodore grey’s blog.
I saw a post on the cnc wall printer. He came across in china, it’s essentially a four color inkjet printer on its side for printing ads and murals directly on walls. Apparently, you can buy these things for around three thousand dollars, but it doesn’t look like it would be impossible to make your own magpie issue 72 is out and available as a free download. This month’s feature is on ai projects and the winners of last week’s book.
Giveaway are jonathan whittaker, panther, the cat and fernando rodriguez, longi they’re, all getting a copy of makes tips and tales from the workshop book, an outstanding maker reference that everyone should check out maker faires this weekend. We’Ve got dayton, ohio and tokyo, japan. If neither of those are near you, though, you should check the map at makerfaire.com to find out when your local fare is happening, and that does it for this week’s project packed show be sure to subscribe, leave a thumbs up or leave a comment, and you can Subscribe to the maker update email list to get these show notes emailed out to you automatically every week, along with bonus projects that i couldn’t fit into the episode and just a reminder: i’m not a make employee. I do this show because i love it and if you appreciate me doing it, you can buy me a coffee using the buy me a coffee link down here and that’s it.
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