Z-probing the Cyclone CNC
Some days ago the first movements on the Cyclone PCB CNC mill occurred. Some adjustment to the stepper drivers reference voltage to set the appropriate current for the motors and the movements improved a...
Author: Miika Pietila
Fixing a lateral acceleration sensor
In VAG cars (VW/Audi/Seat) there is a lateral acceleration sensor to deal with the stabilization control of the car. Problem with the sensor is it tends to get loose from the board and cause...
Hacklab Summit Finland 2015
Lähdettiin katsomaan muiden labien meininkiä Tampereelle. Syömässä on käyty ja nyt on vuorossa lab-esittelyjä. Ensimmäisenä vuorossa Helsinki. Positiivisesti Mikkelistä myös uutena väkeä.
ESP8266 + ds18b20 + thingspeak+ nodemcu
Update: 2016-02-06. New greatly updated tutorial in new post with NodeMCU dev board and ArduinoIDE. A lot simpler approach. Update: 2015-04-11. Update with deep sleep now in new post. Testing the battery operation time...
Printer up and running and calibrated
The service was pretty easy to finalize and z-calibration is not that far off. At the moment it is fixed in the 3d-printing workstation slic3r with “z-offset: -0.08 mm”. The former was -0.17. Might...
Mendel90 design improvements (aka fixing broken parts)
For some time the quality of prints has been varying. Occasionally pretty nice prints and on other takes something straight to trash. One time upon inspecting the matter I realized the x belt is...
Offshore host for your shell needs
Now we have a piece of cloud for random shell needs of members. For something like screen/tmux+irssi or likes. Not for anything too serious business but better than something else. To get more information...
Ovikello – mikäs se sellainen on
Satunnaisia kulkijoita varten pohdittiin, että ovikello olisi hyvä. Tai pohdittin sitä jo joskus vuosi sitten, mutta nyt saatiin sopivat palikat loksahtamaan. Ovikellossa ei kuitenkaan ole nappia. Se toimii puhelimella. Soittamalla numeroon 0442598099 soi ovikello...