Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Maker Update: Stroboscopic Zoetrope”.
This week on Maker update a hundred-foot slip-and-slide, two kinds of zoetrope, an open-source test-tube, rocker Carlock pinball, a new issue of make diffusing leds and a chance to win one of my favorite maker books, hey I’m Donnell Bell and welcome to another maker update. I hope everyone’s doing well. I have a great show for you this week, full of tips and projects. So, let’s get started with the project of the week.
Bob Claggett continues to kill it this summer with another great project. This time is this: hundred-foot slip-and-slide bob’s video walks through the entire build process, most of which involves the PVC pipe spray bar at the top of the slide, in addition to the water there’s a custom hopper full of kid shampoo that keeps the slide lubricated the project. Also introduced me to see PVC pipe, which uses a different sizing system that can create a snug fit into standard PVC. It’S also handy because it can be easily adapted to fit onto a garden hose. What I love most about this project is that it’s one you can share with your friends and community.
You can find a link to Bob’s video and blog post in the show notes more projects over on Adafruit there’s, not one but two zoetrope projects both of them use, Adafruit, snoo cricket project board. The first is a motorized paper zoetrope project by dan o wall. Using a cricket, a circuit playground express in a small gear box motor the project walks you through how to create and mount a paper zoetrope directly on the motor paper templates are included and the code is set up to spin the motor at just the right speed And start and stop by pressing a button on the circuit playground. John Park offers a different take on the zoetrope project, using essentially the same hardware for his version. John uses, the neopixel leds on the circuit playground to create a strobe effect for his demo. He spins a handful of ping-pong balls with different faces on them and hits them with the LED strobe to create the animation. It’S super cool and there’s a lot of potential for scaling this up by adding more neopixels for something a little more practical, akshay Demong car created this design for an open-source 3d printed laboratory rocker. The project uses a single NEMA stepper motor in Arduino, a knob for adjusting the speed and some bearings to create a smooth, reliable movement.
The rocker is used for mixing things in test tubes and it could be a great tool for a DIY bio lab and if you ever wanted to design your own pinball machine. Chris Mitchell has a guide on hackaday for creating a working play field using 3d printed parts and cheap car door, lock actuators. I covered this project last year when I was just getting off the ground, but Chris has updated it with a new flipper design and dropped targets that are reset with little hobby servos. I have a bunch of tips to share. First, the new issue of Make Magazine is heading out to newsstands now and includes a feature on let’s robot, which is this guy right here. It’S a little Rover, hey that you can control over the internet and see through its camera and with this version here is actually in the make office in most days and I’ll leave a link in the show notes where you can test it out and drive it Around you’re on TV right now over on Instructables Becky Stern, has a super useful guide on her experiments, defusing LEDs, with different materials, hot glue, thermal plastic paper, plastic tubing. You can see it all and consider what might work best for your project. Bob plug this back with another bits, video this one is all about clamps and he walks you through the different options and their best uses maker.
Extraordinary Alex globe from hackster is on the latest version of the cool tools podcast and runs through some of her favorite tools. There’S also a recent interview with Becky Stern on there and for the ultimate guide in maker tips and stories. You have to check out gareth bronwen’s tips and tales from the workshops. It is one of my favorite books, I’ll leave a link in the show notes where you can just go and buy one directly, but I also have three to give away.
So if you have a great uncommon tip that you want to share with me, you can email to me. I’M gon na pick my favorite three and mail. You guys out a copy of this book. You can email me. I’M donald at maker project lab comm maker faires. This weekend we have Kingsport Tennessee, Cheongju China, Wichita, Kansas and Sheboygan Wisconsin, also Jeffrey row emailed me to get a plug in for the Dublin maker of in Ireland on July 21st. But if none of those are near you head to Maker Faire comm and find out when your local, fair is happening all right and that does it, for this week’s show be sure to subscribe. Leave me a thumbs up or leave me a comment.
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The first is a motorized paper zoetrope project by pan hope all robot heckles is well. I guess we’re not really looking at yourself here, but a version of yourself. .