A couple of weeks ago I came up with the idea of building a cabinet/table/storage thing for my 3D printer.
Its aim was to solve a couple of things:
Stability, its original table moves around quite...
A few weeks ago I received a 3D printer, this is something I had been planning to get for a while so when I saw a decent looking device for sale in Maplin last month I jumped at the chance.
The printe...
I finally managed to get kevin outside at the weekend for a proper test run. This is the first time the base electrical systems including the motor controllers have been tested and they performed flaw...
After a month or more of work the steel frame for Kevin is complete and painted. This is something I have been looking forward to for a long time as it means I can start attaching components and runni...
After a couple of weeks working on the site in my spare time it is finally complete. This site is built using the Laravel framework on the backend and the new bootstrap v3 css framework for the front...
One of Kevin's control boxes will be a large fuze/switch box. The battery banks will feed into here and the power will be distributed to the motor controllers and other power systems. Within the box i...
After building the core of Kevin I have now added a mounting frame for the battery, this is a straightforward mounting in the center of the frame which will accommodate up to 8 12v batteries.
This is...
After reviving my robotics platform I encountered some serious problems with the durability of the system. The motors are very powerful but they are slow and the wheel mounting isn't very good, the m...
Today I took the first steps in reviving an old project, the robotic platform. This was a project I started towards the end of 2009, I abandoned it as soon as it reached the software stages and t...
First off, if you have looked at my portfolio you will see I have done some work for Crunch so I may be a little biased but I am also a customer so I do believe my comments are fair.
As you probably...
