As most of you know, I am not an engineer, despite my lofty ambitions of tinkering with all sorts of things. So, the other day Jouko Lehtomäki from Suomen 3D-ratkaisut, the partner company of my university Haaga-Helia, brought us a brand new CoLiDo DIY printer in a crate. He said it’d be …
I recently had the pleasure of visiting Thrinno, a Belgian company based in Ghent. Thrinno is working on a cloud-based system that enables companies with 3D metal printing needs to assess the print process virtually, find the best orientation for printing, and most importantly, get a quote on the price …
We all have things in our everyday environment that consist of small things, which you don’t notice even, until they break. Then you look into it and find that replacement parts are not readily available, at which stage you are faced with a simple choice: Buy a new one, or …
Hello again, and all the best for 2017 to all my readers! Just before Christmas, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences and Suomen 3D-ratkaisut Oy (an importer of 3D printers) entered into a partnership. It stipulates that the University will get five printers and an amount of filament every year, and …
Last Monday, October 24, I had a public lecture at the Auditorium of Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, where I teach IT. Some 30 students showed up at the Auditorium, and because I had requests from our other campuses for recording, I asked the IT Support to do that. This …
The past posting described how to get the horizontal disk to rotate as per the position of the servo. Now it’s time to add the second servo as well as a nice box to house the electronics, and a little multipurpose battery box for such times as the Arduino …
Hi again. This time I thought I’d write up a little device I have put together with Arduino and printed parts so that I can point a webcam in two directions. (That’s the first use I thought of, after getting the idea of trying something with two 180° servos). To achieve …
So, as I was attending a seminar at Universidad Europea de Madrid (see previous blog entry) along with three students. we were staying at a hotel near the Principe Pio station. In the breakfast room, we had this machine: This is actually a powerful example of how 3D technology can be …
Now it’s time to see the parts that I had to print to make this thing work. The list is as follows: Camera horizontal mount Camera horizontal roller Camera cradle Film gate mount and servo clamp Film gate clamp, gate fastener, and film gate switch mount Film gate desk clamp Battery box …
I have finished the 8mm telecine robot, the construction of which I have described in Part 1 and Part 2. There will be a couple of more parts at least so I can provide a complete picture of how it works and how it was built here are part 3 and part 4. Part …