An semi-automatic guitar plays "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star", with a bit of human help. Version 2 will be able to play all on its own.

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 [...]

James demonstrates how to wind an extension cord such that its easy to uncoil, tangle free.

More of the Panasonic industrial robot arms, now at full power. The video doesn't show it, but we've rigged the controllers to provide full operating voltage, and are just using a DPDT (center off) switch to act as a reversible motor control.
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Brandon and Kevin built a LoL Shield kit; See it in operation!

One of the features of the Makery (now the defacto name for the Omaha Maker Group’s space) is a standing webcam that publishes live photos of the space to the Internet.  We have a few USB webcams hooked up to a PC running YawCam, which is a free (as in beer) webcam package written in [...]

This weekend was a mix of projects; Cleaning the house, working on car stuff and some time down at the Makery (which seems to now be the official unofficial name of the Omaha Maker Group’s space). I won’t rehash all the details here, but you can check them out on the OMG website. My [not [...]

Some guys from the Omaha Maker Group tinkering with some old Panasonic Industrial robotic arms

Well, as of today, the Omaha Maker Group officially has a space.  Keys to the new digs were picked up tonight, and the preparation and move-in begins tomorrow.  The first official meeting at the new space is on Tuesday, March 8th. Head on over to the official OMG site for full details

The other day, I found myself doin some “Vanity Googling”, that is, searching for my own name, and seeing what comes up.  I found that there’s at least a few “Kevin Fusselman”s out there, and that lots of websites (mostly brick and mortar types of things) have a hard time telling me from myself since [...]