Author: skullkey
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…
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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…
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Last night at the build, Philip (with the help of Andrew) completed the first working prototype of SHAC – Smart House Access Control. This is a very sophisticated access control system which is connected to the cloud – sorry a bit lame, but really 🙂 SHAC uses an AWS instance for administrating the access control…
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