Collaborate Disseminate
If you need a potentiometer for a project, chances are pretty good that you’re not going to pick up a pencil and draw one. Then again, if you’re teaching someone …read more Continue reading A Classroom-Ready Potentiometer From Pencil and 3D Prints
If there’s one thing we like around here more than seeing an improved version of a project we’ve already covered, it’s when the improvements make the original project cheaper. In …read more Continue reading Pimp My Pot Redux, Now Cheaper and Even Better
Rotary potentiometers, switches, and encoders all share a basic design: adjustment is done via a shaft onto which a knob is attached, and knobs are sold separately. That doesn’t mean …read more Continue reading Make Your Own Pot and Encoder Knobs, Without Reinventing Them
[Dennis] aims to make robotic control a more intuitive affair by ditching joysticks and buttons, and using wireless gesture controls in their place. What’s curious is that there isn’t an accelerometer or gyro anywhere to be seen in his Palm Power! project.
The gesture sensing consists not of a fancy IMU, but of two potentiometers (one for each axis) with offset weights attached to the shafts. When the hand tilts, the weights turn the shafts of the pots, and the resulting readings are turned into motion commands and sent over Bluetooth. The design certainly has a what-you-see-is-what-you-get aspect to it, …read more
Continue reading Gesture Control without Fancy Sensors, Just Pots and Weights
Michael Tlusty, a lobster biologist at the University of Massachusetts Boston, says the jury is still out on if lobsters can feel pain. Continue reading Does Getting Lobsters High Before Boiling Them Alive Reduce Suffering?
Though logging has a greater overall impact, growing pot can be even more destructive on a per-unit-area basis, according to a recent study. Continue reading Illegal Weed Can Be Worse for Forests than Logging
Food-grade 3D printing filament is on the rise and it is nice to have a custom coffee mug in the office to instill a little envy in the locals. [Stefan] took it upon himself to create a Mocha Machine that he would 3D print and test the boundaries of his filament.
[Stefan] used Fusion 360 to replicate the famous Bialetti Moka Express pot in it true octagonal shape. Since the pot brews coffee under pressure, he tested tolerances in Fusion 360 to make sure all the thicknesses were right. While the design was being printed, a steel washer was added …read more
“Purple Kush does not mean anything.” Continue reading Weed Strains Are Mostly Bullshit
The role of cannabis in early religious texts to the botanical renaissance of the Victorian age. Continue reading A Visual History of the Pot Leaf
Anything with more than 0.3 percent THC is far too potent. Continue reading Kentucky Burned 100 Pounds of Hemp Because It Was Too Dank
