Tools Hack Daily: March 2022

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Sphero Chariot #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Sphero chariot works well. The wheels do wobble a bit but it keeps it from jamming up. a couple of washers would fix the problem. Once you have everything printed you will need to carefully press on the wheels. it is hard to press them on and they will not come off.

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5216718

Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!

Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!

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Slim Rectangle Controller (Hot Swappable Kailh Chocs) #3DThursday #3DPrinting

soondubu shares:

assembly tips:

switch holes can be cut with a box cutter or exacto knife
parts will need to be welded together with a soldering iron or hot knife
guide here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-PgjTYsAFY)
the threaded inserts can be inserted using a soldering iron, go slow and make sure they go in straight, line it up flush the surface.
hotswap sockets are super glued to the PCB plates
firmware for pico here: (https://github.com/JulienBernard3383279/pico-rectangle)

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5216721

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Battery box for 4 CR2032 or CR2016 cells #3DThursday #3DPrinting

_KJS_ shares:

As the AG13/LR44 box (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5189027) turned out more useful than expected I also made one for CR2032 which also fits CR2016. It also got the hole for a Ø10x2mm magnet even though I don’t need it right now but one never knows.

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5214890

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Portable Dice Game #3DThursday #3DPrinting

lundiplutzmus shares:

This is a small dice rolling game for children. The game itself is shaped like a die and serves as a container with screw cap, ideal for travel.

The amount of pegs you might print depends on the amount of players, I think 12 is a good start.

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5213285

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Controller Tower Xbox One and 360 #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Kdcool shares:

Made everything larger (5 cm in lieu of 3,5) so it could hold the Xbox 360 controllers.
Don’t forget to enable bridge settings in order to print those for 360 Controllers.

I recommend 2 walls for Xbox One and 3 for 360.
I used 13% lines infill and it still is very stable at 6 controllers.

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5213549

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The Universal Kitchen Rack #3DThursday #3DPrinting

wanhaofan1 shares:

This is version 2 of The Universal Kitchen Rack. The original version can be found here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4901424 . While using threaded rods was an option for version 1, it is the default for version 2. This was done to make TUKR stronger and more resistant to fatigue failure. Many dimensions were changed to improve strength, so the version 1 files are NOT compatible with the version 2 files.

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5213894

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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

BFO-9000 Case #3DThursday #3DPrinting

TypicalTitan shares:

Includes ability to tent with screw holes in the bottom and to place magnets in the sides to attach the two sides together.

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5210408

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Mary Blair’s #WHM22 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM

Today we celebrate Marie Blair, an artist, animator, and designer. She drove the design for Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Cinderella, and more. Blair’s unique approach is central to many aspects of Disney parks, including the innovative and influential color palette and neo-Art Deco design of It’s a Small World.

From the Christian Science Monitor:

“[Mary Blair’s] vibrant colors and stylized designs pervade Disney animated films from 1943 to 1953,” writes Mr. Canemaker. “Beneath her deceptively simple style, lies enormous visual sophistication and craftsmanship in everything from color choices to composition.”

Disney had a stable of amazing artists, “but where Mary Blair was unique was that the work that she did here at the studio was not only beautiful work, what she did went beyond the project into a pure art form,” says Michael Giaimo, art director on Disney’s “Pocahontas,” in an interview with the L.A. Times last week. “It became art. It became a statement unto itself.”

“Her most distinctive factor is that she is kind of showing us her soul,” Mr. Giaimo added. “It is not just slick commercial art, it is the combination of commercial and the personal in the artistic sense. She puts herself into her art work and it transcends the greatest of the Disney movies.”

More art from Mary Blair!

Learn more!

Vintage Nokia 3310 mobile nail art with light @natalieMinerva

Natalie Minerva on Twitter demonstrates tiny flashing nail art displaying a vintage Nokia phone.

I did it. I made my dream nail. Nokia 3310 with a real working light inside the screen. Y2K all day baby #nails #nailart #Nokia

Rather than a battery, the LED is powered through an inductive coil and the finger is placed in a changing magnetic field like an RDID reader or inductive charger. Premade stickers, such as Adafruit’s RFID/NFC Nail Stickers – 5 Pack with White LEDs make projects like these easier.

See the Tweet here.

Can You Create Omni-Directional Tank Tracks?

We recently ran a piece about experimenting with 3D printed omni-directional wheels. In this James Bruton video, he asks the musical question: Can you create omniwheel tank tracks?

The good news is, you can. They work quite well. The bad news in that they don’t take kindly to climbing over even the most low-profile obstacles. James plans to do more experimentation to see if he can create a grippier, all-terrain version of his 3-tread omniwheel tank.

3D Hangouts This Week @ecken @videopixil

Howdy folks, there will be no live show this week. We’re planning to return next week, April 6 2022 at 11am ET. In the meantime, be sure to catch up on last week’s live stream. Until then, remember to make a day!

This week @adafruit we’re chaos emeralds inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog. Prototyping book cover designs with extruded typography. The timelapse this week is a Dumpster Fire by Bianca Wright, .

Learn Guide –
https://learn.adafruit.com/led-emerald-with-circuit-playground

YouTube Video –
https://youtu.be/2uG8KtozPcE

Circuit Playground Bluefruit –
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4333

500mah Battery
https://www.adafruit.com/product/1578

Layer by Layer – Etch Sketch Snap FIt Case
https://youtu.be/YPtBLRRF5BM

Timelapse Tuesday

Dumpster Fire – Bianca Wright
https://www.thingiverse.com/biancaw/designs
https://youtu.be/XqkPjqcDEEk

Community Makes

https://www.thingiverse.com/make:1022092 neopixel light bar
https://www.thingiverse.com/make:1022016 hylian shield
https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/7152-3d-printed-unicorn-horn/comments#comment-189965 unicorn
https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/7145-mario-boo/comments#preview-comment mario boo
https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/36145-led-matrix-hourglass/comments#preview-comment hourglass

NEW GUIDE: Raspberry Pi Video Synth with Blinka and Processing #RaspberryPi #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit @BlitzCityDIY

A new guide today in the Adafruit Learning System: Raspberry Pi Video Synth with Blinka and Processing

Video synthesizers can create fun and funky visual effects on screens. In this project, you’ll learn how to use Processing and Blinka, the CircuitPython compatibility library for single-board computers running Linux, to display animations and control them with hardware.

This guide will show you how to control Processing with hardware and how to use a socket to connect Python with Processing scripts.

See this guide now >>>

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Why Is a Virtual Veronese Artwork at a Physical Museum? #ArtTuesday

London’s National Gallery is giving vistors the opportunity to view peices as they were originally intended, sort of. Hyperallergic visited the Virtual Veronese

…the National Gallery’s Virtual Veronese ingeniously uses the VR concept for more practical and educational reasons. Its aim, according to the National Gallery’s Head of Digital, Lawrence Chiles, is to use immersive storytelling to add “depth of experience, meaning, and emotion to Gallery visitors’ engagement with our paintings.” Using VR headsets, visitors will be able to see Paolo Veronese’s “The Consecration of Saint Nicholas” hanging in the chapel of San Benedetto al Po, one of the largest Benedictine monasteries in Europe, for which it was commissioned in 1561.

A History of Computer Art #ArtTuesday @V_and_A

London’s Victoria and Albert Museum presents A History of Computer Art which spans from the 1950s through the 1990s and more.

In the 1950s, many artists and designers were working with mechanical devices and analogue computers in a way that can be seen as a precursor to the work of the early digital pioneers who followed.

One of the earliest electronic works in the V&A’s collection is ‘Oscillon 40’ dating from 1952. The artist, Ben Laposky, used an oscilloscope to manipulate electronic waves that appeared on the small fluorescent screen.

See more in the exhibition page here.

Star Tunnel from pi-slices #ArtTuesday

Star Tunnel, a lovely piece of GIF art from pi-slices.

Shipping Container Architecture #ArtTuesday

Dezeen published this list of 12 varied ways shipping containers have been used for architecture, from student housing in Denmark, to a hotel in London and a stadium in Qatar:

Shipping containers are steel boxes that are used to transport cargo all around the world. Due to the modular nature of the structures, they have become popular with architects over the past decade.

DULK’s Enormous Urban Exploding Art #ArtTuesday

If art means building a titanic, other-worldly polar bear creature and then detonating it with live pyrotechnics, then art is good. Here’s more from JUXTAPOZ:

For his latest project ‘Protect What you Love’ in Valencia Spain, DULK launches an impressive series of city wide activations, exhibitions, apps and prints. Most significantly, the activity coincides with the prestigious annual tradition of Las Falles, which after 2 painstaking years, will see a 23 meter high polar bear dramatically burnt to the ground.

See more!

Responsive Sculptures by Daniel Rozin #ArtTuesday

A new exhibition features art that changes based on the viewer’s movements. Here’s more from COLOSSAL:

Titled Shades, the show is comprised of multiple imitative works that reflect viewers’ movements through an embedded camera. “Take Out-Chopsticks Mirror,” for example, attaches the wooden utensils to a motorized base, and as someone passes in front of the piece, the components lift upward at a wider angle. In addition to the echoed motion, the undulating works rely on light and shadow to create intriguing, abstract renditions of human gesture.

See more!

Monday, March 28, 2022

New York’s Broadway Makers Marketplace provides fans both crafts and community

NPR highlights the delightful Broadway Makers Marketplace, located in a busy Columbus Circle subway station.

There’s an underground market, with food stalls and stores, in a corridor of the Columbus Circle subway station. And at the very end, where a bar used to be, is an unexpected sight: a storefront filled with Broadway memorabilia and fan-made art. It’s called the Broadway Makers Marketplace, and last Sunday afternoon, it hosted a game of Broadway bingo. About a dozen people gathered in front of the shop, singing show tunes while stamping their bingo cards.

“We Are Bruce Lee” Exhibit at the Chinese Historical Society of America

Bruce Lee is undoubtably one of the most iconic and wonderful figures from 20th Century American culture. His legacy is an inspiration, which is why we’re pumped to hear about the upcoming exhibit We Are Bruce Lee at the Chinese Historical Society of America in San Francisco.

Located at the CHSA Museum in Chinatown, San Francisco, We Are Bruce Lee is an exhibit featuring contemporary art and historical artifacts that celebrates the remarkable life of a Chinese American icon, who transcended race, geography, and culture through uncanny strength and resilience.

…We Are Bruce Lee: Under the Sky, One Family”: Opens April 24. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. daily through May 1; Wednesdays through Sundays thereafter. Through April 2025. $20 general admission; $10 for students and seniors 55 and older; free to members. Chinese Historical Society of America, 965 Clay St., S.F.

Via SFChronicle

Saturday, March 26, 2022

Wedding Photo Booth with Raspberry Pi

Wedding season is upon us. Check out this classic photo booth build from Anthony Sabatella on Hackster.io:

For a wedding or other event, you need a photo booth! You will find here how to do this awesome project which make all guests happy.

PALPi Lite Edition #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

via Arnov Sharma on instructables

So this is the PALPi V4 which is a DIY Retro Game Console powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero W.

The IDEA here was to make a portable handheld gaming console that can run RETRO Games like Contra, Pokemon, Super Mario ETC.

For Display, I’ve used a 4 inch Car Monitor Display which is controlled by Composit PAL output.

As for the emulation OS, I used RECALBOX as it comes with many preinstalled games.

In this Instructables, I’m gonna show you guys the whole built process for this Retro Game Console.

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Water System Monitor #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

via Chad on hackster.io

My father asked me to build him a system similar to my other projects to monitor his sump pump level and softener salt level along with house water pressure.

The code publishes data to cloud4rpi every 10 minutes to keep account in free status for trending and alarms.

Link to Cloud4Rpi to view: https://ift.tt/ES10kGf

Local visual display can been seen either with local screen or connecting to pi with Real VNC viewer.

Wordle-Solving 3D Printer #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

via Gizmodo

Building a robot from scratch is no easy task, but when all you need is a robot to press on a smartphone touchscreen and then capture images of what happens, a 3D printer gets you 95% of the way there already. Greening started with a Creality 3D printer and made some simple upgrades: a touchscreen-friendly stylus in lieu of a filament extruder, a Raspberry Pi Camera to capture images of the screen for positioning and to monitor the game’s feedback, and a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B to serve as the bot’s brains and controller.

Digital Easter Egg Hunt @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Just in case this is something you need, Alex Bate has put together a way you can instruct a Raspberry Pi to reveal the location of a hidden chocolate egg. Here’s more from Raspberry Pi Blog:

You’ll need an egg carton, two male-to-female jumper wire, and two crocodile leads for each egg you use. Connect your leads together in pairs: one end of a crocodile lead to the male end of one jumper wire. Attach the free crocodile clips of two leads to each corner of the egg carton (as shown up top). Then hook up the female ends to GPIO pins: one numbered pin and one ground pin per egg. I recommend pins 3, 4, 18 and 24, as they all have adjacent GND pins. Your foil-wrapped Easter egg will complete the circuit — make sure it’s touching both the GPIO- and GND-connected clips when resting in the carton.

See project!

Car Security with Facial Recognition #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Raspberry Pi Projects posted about facial recognition for new generation vehicles, like Teslas:

The project is to build a facial recognition for Car Security System using the raspberry pi. This project offers additional advanced security features for new generation vehicles such as tesla. The raspberry pi will act as a command module for the proposed advanced system. The advanced security system only allows authorized personnel to use the vehicle.

8085 Homebrew Computer @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

Here’s a fun project with a wonderful aesthetic. It’s a homebrew Raspberry Pi by way of a Terry Gilliam production design. Here’s more from Geoalx2 via hackster.io:

This project consist of an assembler project written in Python in order to translate the assembly code into machine code recognizable from the 8085 microprocessor, acustom EEPROM writer using Raspberry Pi pico and microPython, custom Arduino script to send ASCII codes to the CPU using the laptop keyboard and the PC construction itself.

See project!

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Tesla Model S Parcel Shelf Lifter #3DThursday #3DPrinting

CommanderB shares:

This is a rear parcel shelf lifter for the Tesla Model S.

Inspired by the now removed https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3721952 and incorporating the clip from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4285139 this auto lifts the rear parcel shelf in the Model S when the liftgate opens. It has a quick release clip which allows the shelf to be removed easily.

Recommend one each side, but it seems to work with just one.

Best printed in PETG or ABS to withstand summer heat.

The red print is PLA for my testing, this was printed at 20% infill, no supports, no raft and works well. The only problem likely being durability in the summer.

My final print was meant to be PETG in black, but this proved much harder. I’m not very experienced with non-PLA prints, so this took a lot of experimentation and fails. PETG is also more brittle…

My final good results for the PETG prints were –

The window mount on its side, no supports 100% infill.

The top clip on its base, supports, 100% infill

The shelf lifter on its back, no supports, 50% infill

Download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5204717

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Dumpster Fire #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Every week we’ll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses!

Dumpster Fire
Bianca Wright
https://www.thingiverse.com/biancaw/designs
CR10S Pro
Green PLA
9hr 01mins
X:222 Y:210 Z:62mm
.2mm layer / .4mm nozzle
6% Infill / 6mm retract
210C / 60C
71g
60mm/s

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Portable RetroPie – Raspberry Pi 4 console #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Widge shares:

I made this portable Retropie games console as a proof of concept before my main project which would be to make a fully integrated version (using an internally wired controller rather than the bluetooth controller this version uses). Although, I am very happy with the way this turned out.

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5181513

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Grandma’s Favorite Filament Clip #3DThursday #3DPrinting

Extrutim shares:

I’ve tested many filament clips, but none was the perfect one.
So i designed this little clip. About 6 minutes to print, 1g of Filament and this shovel to get easily under tightly wound filament.
The filament is held firmly in the clip as it snaps into place.
According to one comment, by scaling to 160% the clip should also work with 2.85mm filament.

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5178270

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