Alessandro Grossi developed this DIY 3d scanner. The primary ingredients in this project are readily available and include a line laser, an Arduino, stepper motor, stepper motor driver (up to 12800 steps), 12V power supply, IR LED and a digital … Read more
Open Book on “Low-cost 3D Printing for Science, Education and Sustainable Development” : Some scientists from the ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics) published an open book about 3d printing, titled Low-cost 3d printing for science, education and sustainable development. … Read more
Christopher Hawkins made this cool DIY 3d printed stepper motor: This is a programmable stepper motor and driver that I made out of some nails, magnet wire, neodymium magnets, a digispark microcontroller, and a 3D printed piece that I designed … Read more
3D printer spotted at SEG market building in Hua Quiang Bei, Shenzhen. Small, simple, and elegant design. Bent metal is cheap and plentiful, and they’ve capitalized on that to make one of the most bare bones 3D printers we’ve ever … Read more
Here’s a 3D printed vacuum former by Jonny, documentation is available as a thing on Thingiverse: This is a vacuum forming machine that you can print. Which allows you to make a mold of your 3d printed object. I hope … Read more
Matthew of Electronics for Humans has been working on 3D printer controller: The design is based on an Atmel Atmega328 running at 8MHz (using the internal clock) at 3.3V. This is in order to keep the same voltage as the … Read more
Filed Biennual report for our Iowa 489 LLC. If you organized before us in Iowa (section 490 LLC) then your report is due on even years instead. See you again in 2015 Secretary of State! Grilled PayPal on why we … Read more
Today’s model is the second iteration of the Bus Pirate and breadboard holder we designed for a kit we are prototyping. It this version the Bus Pirate is interfaced with a TO220-5 packaged IC. The holder board was designed in … Read more
Today’s model is a Bus Pirate and breadboard holder we designed for a kit we are prototyping. The holder board was designed in Sketchup and the design SVG files were sent for laser cutting. Free PCB to the first one … Read more
Today’s 3D model is the FT230X USB-to-UART IC Breakout board with a prototyping area. It also features a LTC4053 Li-Ion battery charging IC giving you the option to add this to your prototype. Some errors creeped up on the PCB … Read more
Today’s 3D model is the recently released Soldering Iron Driver v1.5. For now we’re only selling PCBs for $7 at Seeed. The project is purely experimental, and only supported as far as the community is willing to support it. The … Read more
Today’s 3D model is the Logic Shrimp v2b. The newer version uses the single 23LC1024 SRAM instead of four 23K256, and the serial data lines (SD0 – SD3) are now bi-directional. The Logic Shrimp is a 4 channel, medium speed, … Read more
Today’s 3D model is the VFD tube boards. It consists of 3 boards, one has the VFDs soldered onto it, one holds their tips in place, and one is responsible for driving and controlling the displays. This model is huge, … Read more
The Smoke Tester we previewed a fortnight ago is the latest 3D Model to be added to our library. It’s a board designed to safely power prototypes for the first time and see if there are shorts. Current can be … Read more
Today’s 3D model is the Bus Pirate v4c, also know as the Sick of Beige compatible version. The Bus Pirate is an open source hacker multi-tool that talks to electronic stuff. Check out out Sick of Beige customization tutorial explaining how … Read more
Today’s 3D model is the Bus Blaster v3c in our Sick of Beige v1 enclosure. The Bus Blaster is a high-speed JTAG debugger for ARM processors, FPGAs, CPLDs, flash, and more. The v3 is a PCB, and part placement change … Read more
Sick of Beige v1 DP5031 cases are done, so we needed a generic image for the sales page. Today’s rendering is an image of a DP9056 standard size to use at Seeed. The basic case is simple, cheap, easy to … Read more
Today’s 3D model is a 1.8” TFT Backpack board we’ve been playing with lately in the workshop. It’s a cheap 1.8” serial TFT we got of of eBay. The picture was rendered using Kerkythea, sorry about the light-umbrella reflection on … Read more
Today’s 3D model is the latest board from our shop, the FT311D Android Open Accessory IC Breakout Board. It’s designed on our DP6037 standard sized board, for compstibility with out Sick of Beige cases. Check out out Sick of Beige customization tutorial explaining how … Read more
Today’s 3D model is the Sick of Beige case for the ATX Breakout Board v1.1. This board recycles an old computer PSU into a handy bench tool with 3.3/5/12/-12 volt supplies. The case uses 8x8mm standoffs and some bolts to … Read more
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