Month: March 2012

I am as interested as the next guy in saving money. I also want to make my own things. One of the items I have been interested in making is the 20mm T-Slot from Thingiverse shown below: Say for sake of argument I was wanting to build a Prism: This uses 9 x 400mm lengths…

Looks like I may indeed have destroyed one of my stepstick drivers due to my own stupidity, of course you can’t measure current across 2 pins, you can only measure it in-line, now the diagram did show this, but I was obviously not thinking at the time, and the description was not idiot proof! The…

First things first, I need to make a cable that can connect from a stepper motor to the connectors on my sanguinololu. The stepper motors use JST 2mm pitch 6 way connectors, with a similar 4 pin connector for the wires that are actually connected. The connectors I have installed on the sanguinololu are JYK…

I was browsing through the new items on Thingiverse when I found an item that made use of a screen and referenced a different firmware – Marlin. I had a quick read and thought it would be worth a try, cloned the github repository, downloaded yet another version of Arduino (0.22), I now have 4…

My MicroSD adapters arrived in the post today, so I thought I would give one a try. I moved the PIC18F4550 onto a separate breadboard as I seem to be running out of space for experimentation at the bottom of my current breadboard, plus I want to wire up the MicroSD adapter somewhere close to…