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Printing With Steel on the Printrbot Simple
One of the most popular pages on this blog is Calibrating the Printrbot Simple. To be honest I haven’t been using my Simple much lately, what with the hullabaloo surrounding my Barbie-Compatible 3D...
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Appleton Maker Fest
Appleton, Wisconsin is the nicest little city you’ve never heard of. Along with low crime rates and a thriving local music scene, it’s home to Lawrence University, a Harry Houdini museum with an...
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Vacation Photos and RGB Sensors
So I’m back from a week travelling across the western half of Canada with the lovely and talented Mrs. Zheng3 and her parents. We now return you to your regular schedule of intermittent blog posts. The...
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All About That Base Are Belong To Us: Controlling an LED with an NPN Transistor
Full disclosure: I have no idea what I’m doing. If you arrived here by googling CONTROL LED NPN TRANSISTER then you probably know only slightly less about electronics than I do. Frankly I’m not real...
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The Agony of The Feet
If, bit by bit, you replace the parts of a store-bought pirate parrot with 3D printed components and electronics, is it still the same parrot in five years? Another Halloween has come and gone, and...
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There Once Was a Project ’bout Venus
Longtime readers of this blog– both of them– know that here at Zheng Labs we’ve got a couple of rugrats running around the place. The older one’s in high school now, and has a practiced eye roll that...
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Arduino Audio with the WTV020SD-16P
There are plenty of ways to play sound on an Arduino– at the most basic you might burp out some bleeps and bloops with the tone() command, or perhaps drop some coin at Adafruit and get yourself a...
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Internet of Stranger Things
TLDR; I made a Stranger Things Christmas Lights wall that you can control by adding #InternetOfStrangerThings to a tweet. It’s outside my house right now, blinking. Go ahead, tweet to it. Halloween!...
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Plutarch’s Debut is Nigh
Plutarch 1.0 is scheduled to make his party debut two days hence at J’s Halloween 2016 bash. The active duration of the party is roughly four hours. Here are my goals for Plutarch 1.0 during that...
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100 Discoveries: Science and Tech news you missed in the last 100 days.
A friend of mine recently asked me to help out with an art installation. Usually I say no to assisting with other people’s projects, but she’s a good friend and I was in real need of some good news...
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