📐3D Design & 3D Printing: Replacing a missing LCD drawing tablet pen...
▪️LCD drawing tablets are cheap, good for sketching/erasing and sketching again all day as long as you have your pen;
▪️Unable to find one of the pens, I simply designed a new one in SketchUp (free & opens in your Internet browser) and 3D printed it in PETG plastic;
▪️You can see the similarities/differences but it works just as good as the original;
▪️3D printing allows for localized (on your table top) manufacturing of items you would otherwise have to order or go out and buy;
▪️Notice the string attached, just so we don't lose anymore pens;
▪️LCD drawing tablets are cheap, good for sketching/erasing and sketching again all day as long as you have your pen;
▪️Unable to find one of the pens, I simply designed a new one in SketchUp (free & opens in your Internet browser) and 3D printed it in PETG plastic;
▪️You can see the similarities/differences but it works just as good as the original;
▪️3D printing allows for localized (on your table top) manufacturing of items you would otherwise have to order or go out and buy;
▪️Notice the string attached, just so we don't lose anymore pens;
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📐Applied 3D Printing: Solar Panel Corner Guards
▪️Solar panels are cheap and plentiful, however, cheap panels often have jagged aluminum edges;
▪️A quick 3D designed & 3D printed corner guard eliminates the possibility of cuts;
▪️Because you are designing and printing it yourself, it doesn't matter what size the panel is, the perfect guard can be made and fitted the same day;
▪️Applications for 3D printing like this may not be spectacular, but it is an example of how this technology can solve small problems like this everyday...
▪️Solar panels are cheap and plentiful, however, cheap panels often have jagged aluminum edges;
▪️A quick 3D designed & 3D printed corner guard eliminates the possibility of cuts;
▪️Because you are designing and printing it yourself, it doesn't matter what size the panel is, the perfect guard can be made and fitted the same day;
▪️Applications for 3D printing like this may not be spectacular, but it is an example of how this technology can solve small problems like this everyday...
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🎛 3D Printed Physical Control Panel for Home Automation
▪️Home Assistant is a popular open source home automation application, easy to use once set up and with a virtual control panel on any device (smartphone, laptop, desktop);
▪️Sometimes it's good to have physical buttons to manually turn on and off appliances in your home using smart outlets, hence the control panel;
▪️This is a prototype designed with easily removable panels to add and modify and try out different arrangements and add new buttons and switches;
▪️You can spend forever on paper perfecting a design, but sometimes it's better to just print something out, start using it and working out and perfecting things through trial and error;
▪️Once everything is worked out and optimized, a much simpler and cleaner looking panel can be made;
▪️Home Assistant is a popular open source home automation application, easy to use once set up and with a virtual control panel on any device (smartphone, laptop, desktop);
▪️Sometimes it's good to have physical buttons to manually turn on and off appliances in your home using smart outlets, hence the control panel;
▪️This is a prototype designed with easily removable panels to add and modify and try out different arrangements and add new buttons and switches;
▪️You can spend forever on paper perfecting a design, but sometimes it's better to just print something out, start using it and working out and perfecting things through trial and error;
▪️Once everything is worked out and optimized, a much simpler and cleaner looking panel can be made;
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🛠 3D Printing: Fixing Broken Pedals on a Tricycle
3D designed in SketchUp, printed in PETG plastic - 3D printing helps extend the life of a bicycle whose individual parts are not sold for repairs...
3D designed in SketchUp, printed in PETG plastic - 3D printing helps extend the life of a bicycle whose individual parts are not sold for repairs...
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🛠 3D Printing: Fixing Broken Pedals on a Tricycle 3D designed in SketchUp, printed in PETG plastic - 3D printing helps extend the life of a bicycle whose individual parts are not sold for repairs...
It took a few minutes to design these, a few hours to print (overnight) and just a few minutes to install.
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🎛 3D Printed Home Assistant Control Panel Prototype
When designing a 3D printed prototype, flexibility in the design is important. This control panel is made in sections, making it easy to print out different configurations, adding and subtracting buttons, switches and other features as testing continues.
The panel divisions also are used to separate rooms and floors, a new button was added in another room for a smart outlet controlling a fan.
When designing a 3D printed prototype, flexibility in the design is important. This control panel is made in sections, making it easy to print out different configurations, adding and subtracting buttons, switches and other features as testing continues.
The panel divisions also are used to separate rooms and floors, a new button was added in another room for a smart outlet controlling a fan.
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🌱Chicken waste > compost/soil building > container garden > dinner table...
It takes a while to get the soil-building cycle going, but once it starts you have a constant supply of soil to grow fruits and vegetables.
We're using 150L blue HDPE barrels for "hot composting."
Chicken manure, leftover chicken feed, hay, hedge clippings, and kitchen scraps go into the barrel which is rolled daily to mix its contents.
The composting process in the enclosed barrel creates lots of heat, speeding up the composting process.
Once it's full, it's left for a few months (up to 6 months) before the resulting soil is ready for use in the garden. A second barrel is filled and rolled daily in the meantime.
After a year or so you'll always have good soil on hand in one barrel to add to your garden while managing/utilizing organic waste locally in the second barrel.
It takes a while to get the soil-building cycle going, but once it starts you have a constant supply of soil to grow fruits and vegetables.
We're using 150L blue HDPE barrels for "hot composting."
Chicken manure, leftover chicken feed, hay, hedge clippings, and kitchen scraps go into the barrel which is rolled daily to mix its contents.
The composting process in the enclosed barrel creates lots of heat, speeding up the composting process.
Once it's full, it's left for a few months (up to 6 months) before the resulting soil is ready for use in the garden. A second barrel is filled and rolled daily in the meantime.
After a year or so you'll always have good soil on hand in one barrel to add to your garden while managing/utilizing organic waste locally in the second barrel.
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☢🔋 TECH NEWS: Nuclear battery small enough for use in commercial products, with a charge of 50 years, developed in China.
Such batteries use small amounts of nuclear material in a way entirely different than nuclear powerplants associated with danger and disasters.
The power density and charge of these new batteries are many times higher/longer than lithium batteries and could revolutionize both existing products and make entirely new products possible.
The article says:
Once mass-produced and introduced to the market, it will meet the long-endurance power supply needs of aerospace, artificial intelligence devices, medical equipment, microelectromechanical systems, sensors, small drones and micro-robots. If the power output is sufficient, mobile phones equipped with nuclear batteries will no longer need recharging, and drones will not need to return for recharging."
Link: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202401/16/WS65a68ff7a3105f21a507c9b7.html
Such batteries use small amounts of nuclear material in a way entirely different than nuclear powerplants associated with danger and disasters.
The power density and charge of these new batteries are many times higher/longer than lithium batteries and could revolutionize both existing products and make entirely new products possible.
The article says:
Once mass-produced and introduced to the market, it will meet the long-endurance power supply needs of aerospace, artificial intelligence devices, medical equipment, microelectromechanical systems, sensors, small drones and micro-robots. If the power output is sufficient, mobile phones equipped with nuclear batteries will no longer need recharging, and drones will not need to return for recharging."
Link: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202401/16/WS65a68ff7a3105f21a507c9b7.html
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🧠💻 AI ADVANCES: Some examples of what modern AI is capable of;
AI that helps you code a game without you knowing how to code at all ➕ training AI equipped with a camera and a robotic arm to find items for you and do things simply by asking...
The power of AI is the ability to teach a system to do things or generate content (generative AI) without having to program it specifically to do so.
A robot in a factory today needs to be programmed to do a specific task. Every movement is guided by programming and sensors. These robots cannot do anything it isn't programmed to do.
The AI robot in this video is trained to look for anything you ask it to find, and perform certain tasks with the found items. None of these tasks are programmed into the robot, just training that enables the robot to figure out each task it's asked to perform on its own.
Video link: https://youtu.be/3pb_-oLfWJ4?si=0Sz6_CIonR-JWIL4
AI that helps you code a game without you knowing how to code at all ➕ training AI equipped with a camera and a robotic arm to find items for you and do things simply by asking...
The power of AI is the ability to teach a system to do things or generate content (generative AI) without having to program it specifically to do so.
A robot in a factory today needs to be programmed to do a specific task. Every movement is guided by programming and sensors. These robots cannot do anything it isn't programmed to do.
The AI robot in this video is trained to look for anything you ask it to find, and perform certain tasks with the found items. None of these tasks are programmed into the robot, just training that enables the robot to figure out each task it's asked to perform on its own.
Video link: https://youtu.be/3pb_-oLfWJ4?si=0Sz6_CIonR-JWIL4
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ChatGPT: 4 Game-Changing Applications!
❤️ Check out Weights & Biases and sign up for a free demo here: https://wandb.me/papers
📝 The paper "Look Before You Leap: Unveiling the Power of
GPT-4V in Robotic Vision-Language Planning" is available here:
https://robot-vila.github.io
Making a video…
📝 The paper "Look Before You Leap: Unveiling the Power of
GPT-4V in Robotic Vision-Language Planning" is available here:
https://robot-vila.github.io
Making a video…
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