Yesterday two teams working in two shifts continued building the printer! Status: Build Step 13.01 finished: X, Y and Z- Motors are in place, no X-carriage, no belts and no electronics yet.
We got off to a great start on Tuesday evening (22 Nov) with the build of the H4H RapMan 3.1 3D Printer! Thanks to Andrew, Mikkel, Jossekin, Nick and Philip who made up the first build team. Was funny to … Read More
We are planning a soldering course for this Saturday 26 November. Nick Michael will present this course and will cover basic soldering theory soldering secrets application – an Arduino Prototyping mini-shield how to turn an el-cheapo soldering iron into a … Read More
The training area (Space I) in the house gets very hot in summer and we got some airconditioning on Friday. This made a huge difference. We installed two 18000 BTU units Samsung Mid wall Smartinverter units which seems to have … Read More
The past, present and future of connectivity with a mix of people including David Rowan, chief editor of Wired UK; Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr; and Eric Wahlforss, the co-founder of Soundcloud. Each of the interviewees discusses the emerging opportunities … Read More
Neal came to visit us last night and brought two of his Arduino projects. In the spirit of Engadget, I will make up some names for the projects: 1 Sun seeking pan-and-tilter Pan and tilt kit with servo’s solar charged … Read More
We are planning an Arduino Introduction Course this Saturday 19 November. An overview of the course, the cost, where it is etc is here: http://www.house4hack.co.za/?page_id=453 Please bring a laptop and if possible, install the software beforehand The following people confirmed … Read More
Got this fuel cell powered car – this is the video of what it did before:
Got the kit last night – next to build. Andrew posted this challenge: Since we cannot print anything without first having a 3D design for the thing, I suggest we run a competition for the coolest design to print. Google … Read More
The combined GTUG / House4Hack team won the Google+ Hackathon JHB 2011. The team was: Yusuf HC Anthony Schalk The Hackathon was pretty much open with very few guidelines – essentially build the coolest thing you can – so based … Read More
