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Next Wave Automation - CNC Shark The CNC Shark © is the most portable machine in the Next Wave Automation product line. This CNC machine is designed for routing all types of wood, routing or engraving plastics, and even etching or cutting tile. The CNC Shark's© tile engraving capability was demonstrated in the International Builders' Show. This is an amazingly diverse machine, and its possibilities are only limited to your imagination. Visit our Web site at NextWaveAutomation.com.
Top ten open source projects of 2011 Best of the Blog 2011 – Open Source The open source movement has come a long way since its beginning with computer software. Now we have open source electronic hardware, digital fabrication machines, and even farming equipment and houses. If it can be made, it can be open sourced.
The Hobby CNC Router: Builders Guide Step 1 As we discussed earlier, there are numerous advantages to designing and building a hobby CNC router. Designing and building any machine has the potential of being a good or bad experience. This is also the case wen designing and building a CNC router. The concepts of CNC routers are fairly straight forward, but you can quickly become overwhelmed in the process. “The Open Source Ecology Steam Engine Project” by Mark Norton — #ohsummit September 27, 2011 AT 3:20 pm The final video I captured at the Open Hardware Summit was this interesting talk by Mark Norton. Mark is heading up the steam engine project of the Global Village Construction Set. Open-sourcing purely mechanical projects like engines is something which I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, so this talk was really exciting to me. The idea, in the context of the GVCS, is to use this steam engine as a prime mover for a number of other tools, including electrical generators and pumps.
Mechanicals - MikesCNCShop The design I am using was found on a forum at www.cnczone.com. This design has several nice features. It uses MDF for the frame and black pipe for the axis guides. The linear bearings are made from aluminum angle and roller skate bearings and the lead-screws are 1/2-10 acme-threaded rod. Desktop CNC machine for $300 — an open hardware project on Kickstarter Help make the ShapeOko DIY CNC machine a reality When Edward Ford told us about his plan to launch a Kickstarter project for his self-built CNC machine — made with SparkFun electronics and laser cut with his Personal Factory — we jumped at the chance to support his project. The ShapeOko is a complete, desktop CNC machine that anyone can build for about $300. And its all open-source! From the ShapeOko Kickstarter page: “From CAD and CAM software to the CNC controller; every step has an open source solution. Did we mention the entire project itself is open source?
CubeSpawn – An open source, Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) » JustinLee.sg CubeSpawn is an open source hardware project. Its intended purpose is to “open source” a design for a flexible manufacturing system and design its components in such a way as to make the system capable of making most of its own parts. Frames, made from popular and widely available aluminum extrusion, are used to house machines that perform one step of a manufacturing process. With a bootstrapping (self starting) path to automated production built from open source designs, digital fabrication, and low cost fab-lab style manufacturing, individuals and small organizations can take advantage of contributed designs to rapidly provide commercial grade capabilities at DIY costs.
MetalicaRap MetalicaRap Release status: Experimental MetalicaRap is an open 3D metal & home solar cell printer, based on the principles of electron beam welding and vapor deposition. MetalicaRap is currently in the design stage. David A. Mellis: Fab Speakers These portable speakers are made from laser-cut wood, fabric, veneer, and electronics. They are powered by three AAA batteries and compatible with any standard audio jack (e.g. on an iPhone, iPod, or laptop). The speakers are an experiment in open-source hardware applied to consumer electronics. By making their original design files freely available online, in a way that's easy for others to modify, I hope to encourage people to make and modify them. In particular, I'd love to see changes or additions that I didn't think about and to have those changes shared publicly for others to use or continue to modify.
Uzebox - The ATMega Game Console About The Uzebox is a retro-minimalist 8-bit open source game console. It is based on an AVR 8-bit general purpose microcontroller made by Atmel. The particularity of the system is that it uses an interrupt driven kernel and has no frame buffer. Functions such as video signal generation, tile rendering and music mixing is done in realtime by a background task so your game can easily be developed in C. The design goal was to be as simple as possible yet have good enough sound and graphics to implement interesting games.
OGP - Welcome to the Open Graphics Project : HomePage Hi, this site has been down for a while. I decided to bring it back up read only. No (only) registered user is allowed to edit. adafruit June 6, 2011 AT 12:05 am Microtouch – 2.4, make your own “iTouch-like” device! Sure, the latest “iTouchy” gadgets are pretty cool. But who wants a locked down device?