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[Keith] wanted to use his makerbot for some PCB milling, but he ran into a pretty big problem. The platform that his PCB would sit on was mounted with a layer of double sided foam tape and was not perfectly aligned to the head. Not only that, but it would tilt when pressure was applied. This made the result of the milling completely unacceptable. To remedy this, he made a new platform that is … [Read more...]
Is this the beginning of a new trend? We've seen case modding in computers for a while now, but are we going to start seeing extreme case modding for our CNC machines? This is Kali. Kali eats plastic and pukes parts. Nice. … [Read more...]
Forget about machines that can replicate themselves, what we want is a machine capable of making an 8 inch wide hollow torus out of sugar. The CandyFab project has been around for a while, but with the release of the new machine, the CandyFab 6000 they are reinventing the project. Built from the ground up to be a candy constructing beast, the CandyFab 6000 might be a little smaller than the … [Read more...]
Purple Crayon is a new entry into the home fabricating arena. Shown above, with it's makers [Konrad] and [Aaron], it's set to compete with RepRap and Cupcake. It looks to be bigger than Cupcake, but smaller than the reprap. There aren't many details available on their site, but we're sure there will be soon. They do state that it should retail for less than $1,000. … [Read more...]
While working towards open-sourcing Android, the team continued to work on new features in their own private development branch. These have now been published publicly in the "cupcake" branch. There's a lot of interesting new features and bug fixes included. We've got a rundown of many of the significant additions after the break. … [Read more...]
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