Posted by skullkey on May 20, 2014 at 10:08 am
Robohand has been hard at work at House4Hack over the weekend and their aim is to produce an inexpensive 3d printable prosthetic leg: roboleg
- First prototype of the RoboLeg
Richard has been thinking about this idea for a while and decided to host a maker’s weekend with designers, practitioners and enthusiasts from Robohand Cape Town, Australia and Robohand HQ. Also collaborating with Quentin Harley (designer of the award winning Reprap Morgan) and Bernhard Vogt (owner of CAD House 3d printers).
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Posted by skullkey on March 14, 2014 at 12:23 am
We have submitted two sessions to Tech4Africa – please vote!
You cannot open a tech/news site without reading about a drone, UAV, UAS, multi-rotor, quad copter or flying robot. The headlines tend to be combat heavy, but the real applications is just being discovered – surveying, agriculture, photography, art, search-and-rescue, medicine, infra-structure etc. In this workshop, we will demonstrate how to build a working multi-rotor based drone. The demonstration will explain each of the components, sub-systems and showing step-by-step assembly. We hope to enable participants with a deep technical understanding of the technology and demystifying to the point where anyone can build their own drone.
3d printing is changing the way we think about manufacturing, design, construction, medicine and the list goes on. The best way to get into 3d printing is to 3d print! And we are planning a hands-on masterclass that will teach you how to 3d print, using the frame for a flying robot as the example model. We will explain the technology used in most desktop 3d printers, the materials that can be printed with, some 3d design basics, how to prepare the design, slice it, send it to the printer for materialization and then fly it.
http://vote.tech4africa.com/session-328/#.UyItAqF1XyU
Micro H-Quadcopter by ukarmy04 on Thingiverse
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Posted by skullkey on February 5, 2014 at 10:32 am
Robohand prints 3d mechanical devices to aid amputees (upper limbs). The creator of RoboHand decided to create RoboBeast – a robust, efficient, Africanized 3d printing beast.
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