I just came across an interesting use of a mobile phone for sciency things… a audio frequency analysis to count RPM. Another great video by Matthias Wandel, or what I new him from for many years before I found his youtube channel, woodgears.ca The premise is you find the audible frequency spike, combine that with …
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A little bit about light
I’ve been giving myself a crash course refresher on light over the last new months. It started when I picked up a used Laser Cutter and wanted to figure out how it cuts with light. What I’ve written here is my understanding of things. I may be wrong, if so, please let me know in …
I recently picked up a Seek Thermal camera which plugs into my cell phone and allows…
I recently picked up a Seek Thermal camera which plugs into my cell phone and allows me to see temperatures of stuff. It's a cheap unit, so it doesn't have the built in calibration tables that the expensive 'real' test equipment has. But it's good enough for most people's needs in a non-technical use. I …
I wrote a bit of OpenScad to laser cut a leather pen case
https://github.com/creuzerm/openscad-projects/tree/master/laserable/Pen%20Case I cut it and am looking at it and while it looks good, I think it is flawed. The little round holes for stitching are easy to tell a robot to make. However, I am thinking that they actually overly weaken the seam. I didn't look for the wisdom in the old fashioned hand …
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It's wonderful what happens when you help others
Something amazing happened this week. A group that I participate in was just given an amazing gift. http://enablingthefuture.org/ was given a $600k grant from google.org. Having printed and given away the parts for a prosthetic hand, helped with a fundraiser for getting a 3D printer, and spent some time writing a bit of software leveraging …
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