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Toolchanging in 3D printers is no longer something from the bleeding edge; it’s going mainstream. E3D has a high-quality kit for a toolchanger and motion system, our own Joshua Vasquez …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Are Extruders the Only Feasible Tools for Toolchanging?
Conductive filament exists, but it takes more than that to 3D print something like a circuit board. The main issue is that traces made from conductive filament are basically resistors; …read more Continue reading Secret Ingredient for 3D-Printed Circuit Traces: Electroplating
3D printer owners have for years benefitted from using Octoprint to help manage their machines, and most people run Octoprint on a Raspberry Pi. [Martijn] made it run on his …read more Continue reading Running Octoprint on a PinePhone Turns Out to be Pretty Easy
[Staacks]’s Blender plugin to animate growth is behind the sweet animation seen above. It’s an add-on that cleverly makes creating slick growth animations easier when using Blender. It isn’t limited …read more Continue reading Watch Blender Plugin Make Animated PCB Traces (and More)
After an electronic IoT device has been deployed into the world, it may be necessary to reprogram or update it. But if physical access to the device (or devices) is …read more Continue reading How To Easily Set Up Secure OTA Firmware Updates on ESP32
Having the right speaker enclosure can make a big difference to sound quality, so it’s no surprise that customizable ones are a common project for those who treat sound seriously. …read more Continue reading Generate Fully Parametric, 3D-Printable Speaker Enclosures
3D printers and Octoprint have a long history together, and pre-built images for the Raspberry Pi make getting up and running pretty easy. But there’s also another easy way to …read more Continue reading Want Octoprint But Lack a Raspberry Pi? Use an Old Android Phone
[Cangar]’s excitement is palpable in his release of a working brain-computer interface (BCI) mod for Skyrim VR, in which the magic system in the game is modified so that spell …read more Continue reading Magic in VR That Depends On Your Actual State of Mind
[Ben Bartlett] recently got engaged, and the proposal had a unique bit of help in the form of a 3D-printed hexagonal mirror array, whose mirrors are angled just right to …read more Continue reading Hexagonal Mirror Array Hides Hidden Message
Remember Terminator 2? Guns were nearly useless against the murderous T-1000, played by Robert Patrick. Bullets fired at the “liquid metal” robot resulted only in a chrome-looking bullet splash that …read more Continue reading Those Bullet Effects in Terminator 2 Weren’t CGI