Looking for a good time in Calgary this fall? Something to take the sting out of back to school? Beakerhead and Calgary Maker Faire are just the thing. We hope to be there to meet you, promote robots in education, and maybe even show off some of our robotic creations. Join us!
Ben Krasnow builds a lot of wild stuff. I’ve been watching through his excellent videos ever since I got hooked when I discovered that he built his own electron microscope. His science-fu is far, far greater than mine.
Plotclock by joo uses three servos to write the time with it’s robot claw and then erases it, over and over and over again. Is it self-efacing? Multilingual play on words. Enough of that, let’s see it in action!
How’s this for awesome? To make this Jaquard loom the inventors also made a coil-winding robot so they could make electromagnets for the loom. That’s a lot of steps!
Here’s the paper describing the loom and several other machines. Apparently this is made by the same people who did the CoreXY project. Neat!
Timing belts and their matching pulleys are some of the basic components of so many machines. You can…
…make a loop around a bar and push/pull things like in CNC machines like plotters, laser cutters, and 3D printers.
…make a loop around two different size circles and create gearing (trade speed for power and precision)
…make Rolamite!
…make CoreXY cartesian motion systems.
and much much more. We now carry two widths of open-ended belt and pulleys to match. Order by the meter in lengths up to 20m long. The pulleys come with set screws and fit perfectly on the 5mm shaft of our NEMA17 stepper motors.
