Thingiverse user Rasterize wrote in to point out that the Hemispherical Omnidirectional Gimballed drive I designed some time ago has a second life as a vector thrust gimbal for kites.
Why would you put vector thrust on a kite? How about because it’s beautiful.
Ideas like this crack my brain open like a raw egg. I never would have considered it!
…Can you make a dozen of them flocking together?
Andy Lynch wrote in to tell us of his experimental plasma cutter CNC machine. GcodeCNCDemoV2 was used in the brain of a portable CNC Plasma cutter prototype. (more…)
Morse code is an ancient tongue spoken by the hooded figures who worship a terrifying obsidian pillar in the sunken city of – oh, wait. Sorry! Wrong blog.
We’ve briefly looked over producing Morse code and making music. What if we’re receiving Morse code now? Today, we’ll be teaching the Arduino to translate Morse code back into English and use a microphone at the same time.
I saw this morning on Business Insider that SpaceX is going to try again to land their reusable rocket on a drone barge. This is how close they got last time.
Are you a Java guru? I need some help in the form of a working demo. The results of which will work their way into several projects I’m planning. I’ve been trying to get Java to run JOGL OpenGL in a JPanel and Swing components in another JPanel, each divided by a JSplitPane. I can get them sort of working but when I resize the window things get really ugly. If you’ve got some time to show me how it’s done right, please contact us!
The next regularly scheduled post will be on Monday, as I am running all over restocking and visiting a machinist to check in on some R&D.
