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There’s a lot of opinions and theories around the storing and drying of 3D printing materials. Some people are absolutely convinced you must bake filament if it been stored outside …read more Continue reading Do You Really Need To Dry Filament?
Quadcopter type drones can be flown indoors, but unless you have a lot of space, it usually just ends in a crash. The prospect of being hit in the face …read more Continue reading Indoor Blimp Sails Through The Air Using Ultrasonic Transducers
[Norbert Heinz] has been busy for the 2021 Hackaday Prize entry, working on the design of a direct granule extruder for 3D printing with waste materials, or materials that are …read more Continue reading Fifty Shades Of Brown: 3D Printing With Sugar
[Nicholas Rehm] works during the day at the Applied Physics Laboratory at John Hopkins, Maryland, so has considerable experience with a variety of UAV applications. The question arose about how …read more Continue reading Inverted Pendulum Balanced On A Drone
Sometimes a chance conversation leads you to discover something cool you’ve not seen before, and before you know it, you’re ordering parts for yet another hardware build. That’s what happened …read more Continue reading Slick Keyboard Built With PCB Magic
Research activity into 3D printing never seems to end, with an almost constant stream of new techniques and improvements upon old ones hitting the news practically daily. This time, the …read more Continue reading Polymer Discovery Gives 3D-printed Sand Super Strength
[Bart Schroder] was busy designing high voltage variable speed motor drives and was lamenting the inability of a standard scope to visualise the waveforms around the switch transistors. This is …read more Continue reading Isolated Oscilloscope Design Process Shows How It’s Done
Inspired by the enormous marble music machines from the staggeringly talented [Wintergatan] and the marble run builds by [Daniel de Bruin], [Ivan Miranda] has been busy again building a largely …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Marble Music Machine Looking Good Already
[Hunter Scott] who has graced these pages a fair few times, has been working on electronics startups for the past ten years or so, and has picked up a fair …read more Continue reading Designing Electronics That Work
[Applied Procrastination] is in the business of vertical ferrofluid displays, but struggles somewhat with the electromagnets available off the shelf and the proliferation of wiring that results. [Carl Bugeja] is …read more Continue reading Is This 12-layer PCB Coil The Next Step In Ferrofluid Displays?