Laser Cut Skirt
Step 1: buy fabric Step 2: LASER!!!!! pew pew Step 3: Sew it up.
Blender Shirt
Jenny from Caret Dash Caret made a blog post [http://caretdashcaret.com/2014/12/23/the-mathematics-behind-creating-sewing-patterns-from-3d-models/] about using Blender to generate sewing patterns for a stuffed animal. Another friend once showed me how
Hello World, How to Mill Printed Circuit Boards (PCB)
This post is part of the Hello World Projects [https://blog.nyl.io/helloworld]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are many ways to create custom PCBs (printed circuit boards). I like milling because the CNC mill
Makers on Mars
I recently stumbled across this series on SpaceX [http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html]. It dives deep into what is up with that kooky program and why it's so important
Hello World: Design PCBs with Fritzing
This post is part of the Hello World Projects [https://blog.nyl.io/helloworld]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The simple breadboard with a messy, beautiful rainbow of wires sticking this way and that. Easy enough! But
Hello World Projects, an Intro
The idea behind Hello World Projects is to create simple tutorials that does one simple thing. Usually it involves turning on an LED or displaying "Hello World." These are simple building
Milling PCBs
Well, the nice folks at SoDo MakerSpace [http://sodo.ms] got me started on the CNC Mill and Laser Cutter. I used the smaller mill, a Shapeoko 2, to mill some PCBs. And
Dogfood
> Eating your own dog food, also called dogfooding, is a slang term used to reference a scenario in which a company uses its own product to validate the quality and capabilities of
Ghost Hack
One of the good things about markdown is it lets you interject HTML in the middle. So far example, <div class="red">I'm red</div>
Wifi Connected LED using Guide.js
I wasn't kidding when I said I'd use Guide.js [https://github.com/neuralfirings/guide], my new framework for writing guides and tutorials. Here's a rewrite of
My Scrappy Guide.js
Project Github Link: https://github.com/neuralfirings/guide -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over the past few posts, I've written some guides and tutorials on using the ESP8266 chip [https://blog.nyl.io/tag/esp8266/
PCBs Misbehaving
I got my custom PCBs from iTEAD last week. So exciting, right? I plugged everything in and.... WARHN warhn (failure horn 📢). Problem So much trouble trying to figure out what's the