New York World Maker Faire “World’s Happiest Event”!
The huge maker love fest World Maker Faire is in New York this weekend and New York Hall of Science CEO Margaret Honey calls it the World’s Happiest Event! Located in the same place as the 1964 World’s Fair, Dale Dougherty and Make Media will showcase the most fun, cool, awe-inspiring projects from the Maker Community in a family-friendly setting. Dale likes to say, It’s the Greatest Show and Tell on Earth!
Together in one location you can see live demonstrations of robots, 3D Printers & scanners, lasers, Arduinos, Raspberry Pi, litteBits, wearables, rockets, and all manner of technology, as well as hear the ideas and inspiration of many leaders of the Maker movement. Some of my favorite new toys for techies being shown for the first time are the new 3D Printer just unveiled by precision tool maker Dremel and the portable CO2 laser cutter from Red Ant Laser. I also love the Shop Bot, a wonderful digital fabrication subtractive manufacturing tool that’s in almost all Fab Labs and CAD design software from AutoCAD.
I was lucky enough to preview the new completely functional, completely 3D Printed car from Local Motors at the MakerCon conference that preceeded this weekend’s festivities. It will also be on display at this weekend’s Maker Faire.
SOURCE: 3DPRINTER
Rocket Scientists Are Arduino at Heart
This is the story of a group of college students who moved to the Mojave Desert, bought a house, painted it white, and turned it into a makeshift lab. Then they went out to launch rockets.
The tiny six-layer board has an accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, and GPS, and can measure temperature, pressure, humidity, light (both UV and IR), and it records audio. But the board also comes with Bluetooth LE and wi-fi onboard, an SD Card for logging data locally, LiPo battery management circuitry, and it has an OLED screen and a vibrating trackball. If you count them up, the Apollo has over 200 components, all packed onto that tiny two-square-inch board.
See video and get more info at: http://makezine.com/2014/09/21/rocket-scientists-are-arduino-at-heart/
SOURCE: Makezine
3D-Printed Pinhole Camera
The P6*6 is a 3D-printed pinhole camera, glued and fastened together with 3mm nuts and bolts. All of the individual parts print without support and fit on a 6-inch square print bed. The files are available for download from thingiverse.com/thing:157844.
The P6*6 comes in two focal lengths, 35mm and 50mm. It uses 120 roll film and makes an impressive 6cm square negative — roughly 4 times larger than a negative from a standard 35mm camera. 120 film is widely available and can be found at camera stores that cater to professional photographers or from internet vendors.
P6*6 Specs:
- 120 film, 6×6 format
- 50mm focal length:
- f-stop of f/167 with 0.30mm pinhole
- 62 degree vertical and horizontal angles of view
- 35mm focal length:
- f-stop of f/135 with 0.26mm pinhole
- 77.4 degree vertical and horizontal angles of view
SOURCE: Makezine
This 3D Printed Cast Uses Social Media Messages
Having to wear a cast is not the best possible scenario you could think of for your arm. Nevertheless, what ‘kind of’ makes this still a funny experience is casts’s ability to not just be a cast, but a scrapbook as well. We mean: whenever someone needs to wear a cast, friends can write their own supportive messages on it. 3D printing has proven its ability to be a proper way to create personalized casts, but the problem with those plastic ones is that you can’t write on them. Well, meet #CAST (Hash Cast): a 3D printed cast solely made from messages.
This project comes from California-based company FATHOM. The team wanted to use the concept of social media to improve the way we could produce casts. The idea is that whenever you’re having a broken arm, your friends can write you a personal message via Twitter, which will be included in the print of the cast. Patients can use their mobile phone to select which messages will be included and which don’t.
SOURCE: 3dprinting
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