Archive for December, 2011

“Sketching” Electronics With Conductive Ink

December 28th, 2011
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Conductive Ink, magnetic paper, Arduino Lilypad, and more.  Draw real electronic circuits on paper, instead of using an solderless breadboard, wirewrap, or a PC Board.  A series of videos…

“Sketching” Electronics With Conductive Ink

The first video I had to open in UTube to see.  The rest worked right in the original page.

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micro 3D printer

December 16th, 2011
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Getting closer to ‘desktop factory’ all the time.

Printing ‘small’ parts at high resolution.

The world’s smallest 3D printer

From the picture, it looks like that connects to a computer through a standard [old style] serial cable [not USB]

The video says he built if for about 1500 € [in parts?], at todays conversion, that would be just over $2000 Canadian. He said it has the capabilities of a 60000 € commercial printer [$81100] !!

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More video from the Darpa Challenge

December 9th, 2011
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These youtube videos are from the AI course being put out by Stanford, but anyone interested in autonomous robots should enjoy this.

Autonomous Vehicle Intro 1
Autonomous Vehicle Intro 2

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