Month: September 2011
RepRap @ Afrimold
Andrew and I headed over to Afrimold (www.afrimold.co.za) on Tuesday. One of the vendors Cad House (3d-printer.co.za) has a kit of the RepRap which they call RapMan (based on Darwin – reprap.org/wiki/Darwin) You have a choice of single or double headed device. The second head allows you to print “scaffolding” which is soluble and allows…
Read MoreRat Trap 2000
The Rat Trap 2000 is a completely OTT yet humane rat catcher – it uses an Arduino UNO as the controller and an IR sensor to detect rodents chowing away on the food – we used apple and maize as bait. The moment a rodent is detected, the Arduino actuates a servo motor that pulls…
Read MoreLife Size Game and Watch Game – Retro Style
Note – this little post seem to have gone a bit viral. If you google it now, there seems to be more than 39,000 pages linking here already. Very cool indeed – Tobie A while back a little hack I put together was featured on HackADay. Here is the original proof of concept video I…
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