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WaterColorBot Software and Documentation
We’re wrapping up this week’s updates on the WaterColorBot project with some notes about software and documentation. Documentation Our guides for setting up and using the WaterColorBot are already...
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Snowflakes in your browser
Paul writes on twitter: I ported your snowflake generator sketch from 2008 to js and added SVG export for easy laser cutting! Also good for other kinds of CNC snowflakes, too.
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CNC Cut Height Adjustable Desk
Tyler wrote in about the adjustable height desk project he posted on the Adafruit blog: I built a desk based off of your CNC Workstation Cart design. Thanks for your great write-up and materials list....
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Eggbot Code Easter Egg
Over in the Eggbot forums, user ragstian has been poking around in the firmware for the the controller board for the Eggbot, the EBB. He found an easter egg: holdover code from an old demo mode which...
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The Egg-Bot Electro-Kistka
We’re pleased to announce the availability of the Egg-Bot Electro-Kistka: An electric hot wax pen designed to be used with the EggBot. A kistka is the wax tool used in the traditional wax-resist and...
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StippleGen and a low-power DIY laser cutter
Jens demonstrates using StippleGen2 with his low-power (300 mW!) DIY laser cutter and a classic image of Louis Armstrong. After letting StippleGen2 crunch the numbers for a while I imported the...
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BAMF2014: Makesmith CNC
Part of our continuing coverage of highlights from the 2014 Bay Area Maker Faire Let’s file this under “intro machines.” The Makesmith CNC, currently available on Kickstarter for just $195 including...
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WaterColorBot-style pen holder for DIY Laser
Jens added a new tool option to his DIY Laser: a pen holder. Due to safety concerns I couldn’t run the laser out in public, but to be able to show of the CNC capabilities I built a penholder. The pen...
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The Incredible Computer-Controlled … Computer!
A guest post by Daniel Gentleman About a year ago, I started working on a project that used robotics to control a Surface Pro tablet. Not long after I started, I got my first glimpse at the the...
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Another ASCII Tie Fighter
We just stumbled across a post from last year by WidgetNinja about using our post about CNC halftones to make Tie Fighter ASCII art using his CNC router. He used two-tone plastic mounted on plywood...
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The AxiDraw SE/A3
We’re very pleased to introduce a new member of the AxiDraw family: the special edition AxiDraw SE/A3. This new model joins our existing models including the AxiDraw V3 and AxiDraw V3/A3. Like the...
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New AxiDraw Software v 2.5
We’re pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the AxiDraw software, 2.5. which includes a number of frequently-requested features that we’ve been working on over the last year. An...
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Some years ago we wrote a neat little Inkscape extension called Hershey Text. Hershey text could take a little bit of text that you would type and render it into stroke fonts, also known as engraving...
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