Archive for August, 2011

3D Printing Home Improvement

Monday, August 29th, 2011

I’ve lived in my house for 2 years now. 2 weeks after we moved in, someone who shall remain nameless turned our 2 bathroom house into a 1.5 bath.

They were cleaning the bathroom (that’s how you know it wasn’t me.) While leaning on the D-Shaped shower curtain rod for support, the whole thing came down. Come to find out the support brackets were woefully inadequate.

“I should really do something about that…” but we only really NEEDED one shower, and you can’t buy the brackets separately, so I did nothing. I wasn’t going to spend $100 for a shower we’d never use.
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Sousvide-O-Mator [PID Showcase]

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Sous-vide BabyTop

There have been many sous vide projects floating around the tubes recently. The one I’m showcasing here was first brought to my attention by the Adafruit blog. I found out from the developer that he was in the midst of a full write-up, so I held off on posting. Now that the write-up is done, we can see that he’s put together an impressive little project.

Great documentation, excellent implementation of the PID Library, delicious, delicious meat? What’s not to love? I’m also looking forward to subsequent posts, where he promises to show “how to calibrate the beast :)”

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When a Maker Gets Married

Monday, August 15th, 2011


I got married a couple of weeks ago. We did all the planning / decoration ourselves. By we, or course, I mean my wife. One of the things she wanted to do was have paper lanterns suspended above the tables.

The initial plan was to use throwies, but I felt they wouldn’t give as much light as a commercial 3 LED solution. This led me to a fun, albeit time consuming project.
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