Brandon’s summary for youtube really says it all: “A mind controlled water canon duel.”  This project was started at the OMGWTFBBQ last Sunday (around 3pm) and completed by around 8pm on Tuesday evening. A big congrats to everyone involved for pulling a great project together so quickly.  Here’s hoping!  

This past weekend, Dave and Eric and I met up with quite a few Omaha Maker Group members at the KC Maker Faire, and had a blast.  We were initially going to have a booth to show off the awesome projects from around the Makery, but had far more people who wanted to go See the [...]

 The Makery recently acquired a large (6s, 5 amp) LiPo battery for running various things around the shop, most notably electric scooters.  Given scooters’ tendency to wreck, and Makers’ tendency to be hard on their equipment, we determined that a few upgrades were in order. The battery is housed in a polycarbonate box, along with volt and [...]

Dave K and I are working on a project down at the Makery that requires direct programming of an ATTiny85; Dave ordered the USB ISP programmer for it, but was using a protoboard monstrosity to get it hooked up to the MCU Since he’s doing me a favor flashing chips for “my” project, he ask [...]

At the Makery lately, Brandon and I [with some help] have been working on a CNC Hot-wire Foam cutter quite a bit like this one.  Ours is going to be a bit larger, capable of slicing up a 2×4 foot piece of foam (actually, the X is more like 5 feet than 4). For our [...]

Ever since I visited Noisebridge in San Fransisco back in November of 2010,  I had burned into my head how amazing it was, and how great it’d be when we finally had a space of our own in Omaha.  What I didn’t see in my brief visit was all the work that someone’s doing behind [...]

Tonight, I finally got around to finishing up the Handlebar Camera Mount project.  The mount consists of a hunk of printed PLA, sawed in half, and bolted back together around the handlebars. At the moment, I have a piece of rubber tape wrapped around the bar, under the mount, to keep it from slipping, but [...]

I’ve been keeping busy on a variety of projects this past week, but none of them are really “finished” yet.  The Autotar (player guitar) is functional and plays a song (Twinkle, Twinkle), but needs some software tweaking to make it sound more like music… Most problematically, the stepper motor that drives the slide is pretty [...]

Tuesday marked the 1 year anniversary of the Omaha Maker Group, known internally as Founding Day. It signifies the first [large] meeting of Makers at Upstream Brewery where the Omaha Maker Group name was chosen.  It wasn’t until later that we were legally organized, but that’s not the point. In honor of the somewhat momentous [...]

Tonight, I was on assignment for Brandon and the Makery Mendel again, this time drilling some really really tiny holes. These acorn nuts will be used as print heads to extrude the molten plastic on the almost-done Makery Mendel 3D printer. I started the process by holding the piece of allthread (Which has a shallow [...]