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[Raphaël Assénat] needed anti-static bags for some boards he is selling. He had a lot of leftovers on hand (presumably from the components he ordered to assemble these boards) and wanted to reuse them. Instead of buying a heat sealer he built his own to cut them down to size. His build starts with a transformer to drop mains voltage down to 9 Volts. From there, you can see the two power … [Read more...]
We see a lot of comments on shaky video asking why that person didn't use a tripod. [Aatif Sumar] wants to use one when taking pictures and video with his phone but the threaded mounting hole you'd find in most cameras doesn't come as a feature on smart phones. That didn't deter him, he used an old cassette case for this phone tripod. The build started with a cheap flexible camera tripod. [Aatif] … [Read more...]
Imagine if you will for a moment, you're printing along on your Makerbot clone and all of a sudden your PTFE hot end melts, what are you going to do now? One solution is to mill your own all metal end from a bolt with some careful drilling. Or you could follow [Peter Jansen] who has made his own all metal hot end using the existing extruder. All that's required is some aluminum sheet and cutting … [Read more...]
[Tim Williams] likes to heat things up with this induction heater he built. At peak it can use 1000W and as you can see in the video, that's more than enough power to heat, burn, and melt a plethora of different objects. The case design uses a center divider to isolate switching noise from the magnetic field with the whole unit housed in aluminum because it won't heat up from stray magnetic … [Read more...]
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