Category: Canada
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Shelf with inbuilt foldable desk in narrow hallway
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Pendulum Print Bot
Concept A servo driven pendulum gets a robot swinging attached to an anchor via a cable winch on any canvas. A 2-axis canvas is created which could scale to any size of canvas with the only expense of the cable while only one anchor needs to be attached to the canvas. Indoor (whiteboard) and Outdoor…
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Good News Everyone: Typewriter fully functional.
After many hours of work, my typewriter is now fully functional and printing your tweets. Check it out at http://lepetiteprintshop.com/ At the time of writing this, it actually already printed 68 tweets from all over the world. However, since this is a project that will probably never be 100% done, here are my upcoming optimization tasks:…
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Typewriter to Printer: Setbacks & Progress
I totally forgot that just having a web video stream of what is happening on the typewriter is not enough. What if actually a few people want to watch it at the same time? Bummer, have to investigate that. So far tests showed not even enough frames come out of that android IP cam app…
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Typewriter to Printer Conversion, Update (getting close)
Good News Everybody. The typewriter (actually the raspberry pi) is now capable of picking up print jobs from my typewriter API. See yourself in the following video. For now I just use a web interface to add the jobs manually but soon the jobs will come in from twitter via a hashtag or tweets towards the…
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Typewriter to Printer
A python script on my Raspberry Pi is now typing on my typewriter, not optimized yet, but working. Yeah! zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Typewriter to Printer: Software Update
I am turning an almost hundred year old typewriter into a Twitter printer. An update is needed here, since a few things changed, not as much progress as wanted was done though. I decided for the future of the project to use a Raspberry Pi to operate the typewriter and the connected webcam. Why? Arduino…
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Good News Everyone!
After thorough investigations I believe to have solved the last mechanical challenges to make full control of the typewriter feasible. (in the least invasive / visual way) cartridge return can be done by rolling up a string around the corner and released after it is done OR a motor with gears right behind it and raising…
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Functional Teeth via Implants
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to get a tooth replaced, by an implant. My sister and me have this genetic issue, where deciduous teeth (baby teeth) are not replaced by real teeth (I think it is called Hypodontia). Anyway, I just had one and dentists in Austria, during my childhood, told me it…
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English Idioms learned the hard way.
Do you know what “being half in the bag” means? I thought I did, until this happened … First, if you know what it means, read on. If you don’t know, or just maybe know, read this! English is not my first language, so while living in an English speaking place, I do sometimes reuse phrases…