Collaborate Disseminate
Many of us have heard the name Archimedes’ screw — but not everyone knows the term screw conveyor. These folks (sadly, the videographer at [Breeze Media] doesn’t tell us their …read more Continue reading Ingenious Indigenous Artful Screw Conveyor
I hope last week’s introduction to bulk material handling got you all thinking up amazing hacks, and we’ll soon be reporting on DIY Cap’n Crunch Robots galore. This week we’ll …read more Continue reading Bulk Material — What IS This Stuff, Anyway?
Bulk material is stuff handled ‘in bulk’. One LEGO piece is a brick but 1,000 poured into a bag is bulk material. Corn starch, sand, flour, powder-coat powder, gravel, cat …read more Continue reading Handling Bulk Material: Why Does My Cat Food Get Stuck?
Ball and socket joints are useful, but making a part slide over the surface of a sphere, held by magnets, requires a lot of fiddling to get right. We admire …read more Continue reading Practice Makes Perfect for this Ball and Socket Robot
Modeling a railroad is hard. Railroads are large, linear pieces of civil engineering. So many modelers are drawn to the smallest scale they can use. Recently a new scale, named …read more Continue reading PCB Linear Motors For Model Trains
[Li Zhang] and his colleagues at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have developed a blob of goo that can navigate complex surroundings, grow an ‘arm’, grasp a wire …read more Continue reading Attack of the Magnetic Slime Robots
You’ve built a robot crammed full of servos and now you settle down for the fun part, programming your new dancing animatronic bear! The pain in your life is just …read more Continue reading Animate Your Robot In Blender
[Henk Rijckhaert] recently participated in a “secret Santa” gift exchange. In a secret Santa, everyone’s name goes in a hat, and each person must pick a name without looking. Each …read more Continue reading A Crazy Wave Automaton
Maze bolts, a bolt which has a maze along its shaft traversed by a pin on its nut, are great fun. Here’s a really beautiful metal version by [Robinson Foundry], …read more Continue reading Maze Bolt Toy By Lost PLA Casting
We’ve all seen 3D printed zoetropes, and drawn flip book animations in the corner of notebooks. The shifting, fluid shape of the layers forming on a 3D printer is satisfying. …read more Continue reading Flip Book Animations On The Inside Of 3D Prints