The Walking Zybo
The Zybo serves as the brain in this positively terrifying Halloween project!
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WF32 Controlled iPad Mount Wins a Trophy!
Kaitlyn announces the results of her senior design project!
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The Zybot Makes its Educational Debut
Our illustrious Zybot travels abroad! Kaitlyn provides details on the recent international activities of the globe-trotting robot.
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WiFi Controlled 3D Printed iPad Mount- The WF32 Pulls Through
Kaitlyn and her senior design team assist the visually impaired… with the help of the WF32!
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Recapping the Week: November 29-December 5
The holiday season is upon us!
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Liven up the holidays with some 3D printing.
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Recapping the Week: July 19-25
What do you have planned this weekend? We’re getting ready for NI Week, when half our team will be down in Austin for a time of educational fun. We’re also extremely excited about our Robotics Open Hardware Initiative!
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3D-Printed Pmod Holders
One of the most common issues that customers (and even interns!) have encountered when working with the Pmods was the ambiguous directionality. Since it was not clear which way specifically …
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3D Printing with Tinkercad and Repables
As you may remember, pretty soon we’re going to be officially opening the Robot Open Hardware Initiative (ROHI). Basically, if you make open source robotic parts and share them with Digilent …
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Recapping the Week: July 5-11
What have you been up to this week? As we mentioned in a post this week, we have a major website redesign coming up, so things have been quite busy here. That also means there will be some changes to the look and functionality of the Digilent Blog that we’re very excited about! Have a great weekend, and keep enjoying the summer.
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Making a (Turbo!) Cookie Cutter in Tinkercad
We’ve been doing a lot with 3D printing around the office lately. Kaitlyn has been using Tinkercad primarily for making robot parts for the Digilent MRK and SRK, but she obviously didn’t start with a project on that level. To begin, she decided to make something simpler to get used to Tinkercad’s basic functionality. A cookie cutter seemed like a good place to start, so Turbo (our MakerSpace mascot) lent his likeness to it.
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Happy Father’s Day!
This Father’s Day, we would like to take a moment to appreciate all of the dads out there who inspire us to do our best. Whether new or experienced, our fathers are there to support us as we learn and grow. So what can we do for them to show our appreciation?
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3D Printing, Kids, and CAD
The first day we got to Maker Faire was a special preview day for all the makers and vendors, and special interest groups. At the end of the day, I wandered around and ended up at a booth that was called, “3D printing, kids, and CAD”.
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Making Dreams a Reality with 3D Printing
For a seven year-old girl who lost her hand when she was just nine months old, having a prosthetic hand wasn’t feasible for a long time. However, with the help of 3D printing, she was able to get her new, light-weight hand for around $50 (in her favorite colors)!
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3D-Printable Turbo!
As you all know, we got a new mascot for the Digilent MakerSpace. He is a happy, little barrel-shaped robot named Turbo. So far, Turbo has only been a 2-dimensional mascot.
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Microcontroller Dice Roller — Made in the MakerSpace
If you’ve been keeping up with our blog, you’ve probably seen something about us setting up our very own MakerSpace here at Digilent. We’ve come a long way from a few cluttered cubicles to getting our MakerSpace up and running. We have just about everything you can think of to make any project imaginable: a 3D printer, a soldering station, breadboards, buttons, copious amounts of LEDs, and more! I thought up a just-for-fun project and wanted to test drive the MakerSpace to see what I could build.
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Check Out This chipKIT Shield Separator!
Have you ever had trouble separating your shields and boards? So did we, but not anymore! Use this shield separator tool to pry between your chipKIT or Arduino board and a shield to easily separate the two and avoid bending the pins on your shield. It also has a hole so you can keep it on your key ring and have it wherever you go. I designed the tool in Autodesk Inventor and printed it with our Makerbot Replicator, and it turned out great!
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3D Modeling with Blender
We have made a few posts showing off our 3D printers and some of the classes on 3D printing that we have done here at Digilent. Garrett Mace from macetech.com showed us some of the basics on how to use various 3D modeling software like AutoDesk Inventor, Autodesk 123D Design, OpenSCAD, MeshMixer, and SketchUp. Today, I’m going to introduce some of the basic modeling tools available in the free but robust Blender.
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3D Printing Makerspace Class
Now that another week has passed, it is time for a more recent MakerSpace update! A few weeks ago, James wrote a blog post about one of the 3D printers that we were entrusted with. In addition to the 3D Touch, we were also charged with a MakerBot Replicator 2. Having two printers on loan, Larissa decided that it was about time for a training session on the basic use and care of the 3D printer. Two Fridays ago, we had an introductory class on the new 3D printers, and last Friday was a class on basic 3D design.
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Makerspace Progress – Mega Awesome Super PVC Tables
If you have been keeping up with our blog, you know that we are currently working on starting our MakerSpace and opening it up to the public. So far we have mainly been working on the content part of the MakerSpace by holding the networking class and most recently the first installment in the 3D printing class.
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3D Printing
Recently, Digilent was entrusted with a Bits From Bytes 3D printer to use as we wish, with the stipulation that we take good care of it. A number of people here are versed in proper operation and maintenance of 3D printers, so the offer was gladly accepted.
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