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For around a year, YouTuber Modbot ran a small print farm out of the room he was renting from a friend. That farm paid for his rent and living expenses.
In this video, he shares some of what he learned about setting up, maintaining, and selling products from a print farm.
Caeley Looney from Reinvented Magazine reached out to let us know all about their latest issue which features Erin St. Blaine, Adafruit tutorials and more!
Reinvented Magazine is proud to present its latest issue, and guess what? It’s maker themed! Issue No. 5, their most recent publication, features a wide variety of makers, innovators, and electronics aficionados. Here is a more in-depth look at the content you’ll find in this season’s magazine:
You can find all of this (and much more) in their latest issue, which is officially in stock on their website!
Order your digital or physical copy now at https://www.reinventedmagazine.com/shop-1!
Reinvented Magazine is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that works to empower and inspire the next generation of young girls to pursue their passions in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Through their One-for-One Program, for every magazine bought, they donate up to one magazine to a girl in a low-income or rural area without access to STEM education resources.
Following up on this story … FAME 3D Acquires All Assets of Aleph Objects maker of LulzBot.
We are pleased to announce that the assets of Aleph Objects located in Loveland CO, including the well-known LulzBot 3D printing brand, have been acquired by Fargo Additive Manufacturing Equipment 3D (FAME 3D), a Fargo, ND company.
Grant Flaharty, CEO of Aleph Objects, and now FAME 3D says this, “LulzBot is one of the core leaders in the Desktop 3D Printing Industry. It’s an organization filled with intelligent, innovative people and solutions that are changing the opportunities for Manufacturing and Medical Markets. We couldn’t stand by and watch that type of innovation to go unrealized.”
FAME 3D is continuing the open source legacy for its customer products. Now with solid financial backing, we can continue with cutting edge innovation, high quality long-lasting printers, and product advancements aimed at providing industry-leading solutions.
LulzBot will be placing a renewed effort on customer support and responsiveness to customer feedback to help improve its current and future product offerings.
The LulzBot TAZ Workhorse, TAZ Pro, and Mini 2 3D printers are recipients of numerous industry awards and are available for order now.
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We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging from learn guides to blog articles, videos, and more.
14,000 THANK YOUs! Celebrating 14,000 members in the Adafruit Discord Community!
Together as a community, we reached over 14,000+ humans thank you! We share projects, coordinate events, make new friends, build open-source together like CircuitPython, we’ve worked really hard to make this a special place for everyone to share their projects, code, and things they make.
Join today! https://adafru.it/discord
Check out the full post here!
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Keeping with tradition, we covered quite a bit this past week. Here’s a kinda short nearing medium length list of highlights:
Magical Cardboard Craft Obsidian Sword
This guide takes you through the process of creating your own fantasy weapon that begins to glow as soon as you pick it up.
The design for this sword is taken from the Cartoon Network animated series ‘Steven Universe’.
See the full guide here!
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Browse all that’s new in the Adafruit Learning System here!
We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging from learn guides to blog articles, videos, and more.
Meet Device Simulator Express, #PythonSim a @MSFTGarage project, built by Garage interns that makes it easier to program the @adafruit Circuit Playground Express in #Python, with or without a physical device
OK! Big news! Meet Device Simulator Express, a Microsoft Garage project, built by Garage interns that makes it easier to program the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express in Python / CircuitPython, with or without a physical device!
This summer 16 groups of Garage interns tackled interesting engineering challenges ranging from making apps more accessible to VR solutions for cybersecurity. One of them was sponsored by the Python Tools for AI team and electronics paragon Adafruit to and set out to make programming embedded solutions for IoT devices simpler and more available to a broader audience.
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Keeping with tradition, we covered quite a bit this past week. Here’s a kinda short nearing medium length list of highlights:
Anatomical 3D Printed Beating Heart with MakeCode
This 3D printed heart beats rhythmically, powered by a servo motor and a Circuit Playground Express board connected to a potentiometer, which allows the user to increase or decrease the heart rate.
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Browse all that’s new in the Adafruit Learning System here!
Awesome new collection designed specifically for gamers from IKEA featured on dezeen.
The Uppkoppla collection comprises a series of prototypes developed to improve the lives of gamers by addressing issues relating to furniture design, customisation and accessibility.
The initial prototypes include a wristband, keycaps and a mouse “bungee” designed to improve gaming precision.
We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging from learn guides to blog articles, videos, and more.
Tiny Machine Learning on the Edge with TensorFlow Lite Running on SAMD51
Tiny Machine Learning on the Edge with TensorFlow Lite Running on SAMD51 (video and/or skip to the demo part at 7 min 28 secs). You’ve heard of machine learning (ML), but what is it? And do you have to buy specialty hardware to experiment? If you have some Adafruit hardware, you can build some Tiny ML projects today!
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Keeping with tradition, we covered quite a bit this past week. Here’s a kinda short nearing medium length list of highlights:
1,900th GUIDE! Trash Panda 2: Garbage Day
Our 1,900th guide has landed in the Learn System! It’s John Park’s Trash Panda 2: Garbage Day and it’s lots of fun! You can make it with MakeCode Arcade, and mod and hack it all you like.
In Trash Panda 2: Garbage Day, you play as the suburban dweller just trying to get some sleep when the raccoons and cats decide its time to make noise and throw garbage our of the trash bins! You must try to stop them by shining your flashlight on them. But you can only play at night, so be sure that your PyGamer or PyBadge’s light sensor indicates it’s dark out!
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There is a large cost barrier in front of the manufacturing and technology for3D printing (some of Shapeways printers, for example, have a sticker price of around $1 million), but the barrier to designing a 3D printed object is a lot smaller.
The Shapeways Marketplace allows would-be manufacturers to take advantage of their design skills by giving them access to large scale 3D printers, and by letting them establish “shops”, which are repositories of curated designs. The “shop” owner designs the product and sells it for a slight markup over what it would cost to buy it from Shapeways directly.
3Dprint.com ran an announcement that Shapeways has integrated this marketplace with Etsy, such that the Etsy “shop” is linked directly up to a Shapeways “shop”. Shapeways, on its own, was at risk of being too niche — notable only as 3D printing service rather than a manufacturing service. Integrated with Etsy, however, it’s just one form of manufacturing in a sea of others — and its a huge step towards a bigger and diversified market.
3D printing is still heralded as the manufacturing of the future (though the buzz has died down somewhat), but its largely unnoticed and unused by the general public. Desktop 3D printers are one way to cut cost of 3D printing and make the technology more ubiquitous. They’re indeed an impressive display of how far the technology has come, but the devices are still expensive for the average user. Operating them (and repairing them) takes a fair amount of time and skill. It hasn’t had the democratizing effect one might have thought.
Shapeways is trying to deliver a democratized production capability, but is using scale of production instead of scale of device to lower the consumer cost. The jury is still out on the company’s viability and success, but the Etsy integration makes their scale that much larger. If this model is going to last, this will have been an important step in pushing the company towards success.
Read the whole announcement here.
We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging from learn guides to blog articles, videos, and more.
Mike Barela shared some awesome info on how to use wedges of solder paste for better manual reflow that he learned via cj at @scalarelectric on Twitter.
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NYE Circuit Playground Drop – Drop into the new year with a blinged out Circuit Playground Express!
This guide will show how to build a simple drop mechanism that mimics the famous Times Square Ball Drop on New Year’s Eve in New York City. Read more.
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In this speech at a recent Chinese open source conference, YouTube star Naomi Wu explains the benefits of open source from a Chinese perspective. She ought to know. She is the only person from China who holds a OSHW certification. She talks of her experience in developing the sino:bit educational hardware device and her relationship with Creality 3D printer company and helping them understand the importance of open source.
Although this speech is in Chinese with English subtitles it is well worth your effort to watch.
