Author Archives: Luis

About Luis

I am a member of Kansas City's Hackerspace, CCCKC (http://c3kc.org/about) Event Organizer for Maker Faire: Kansas City (http://makerfairekc.com)

Day 3: Buzzer Support for Tom!

I added a buzzer to the motherboard of Thing-o-matic . Now it goes Beep Beep Beep when a print finishes, pauses, and when the safety trigger triggers. I can also place the proper M codes in the start/end codes to

Day 3: Buzzer Support for Tom!

I added a buzzer to the motherboard of Thing-o-matic . Now it goes Beep Beep Beep when a print finishes, pauses, and when the safety trigger triggers. I can also place the proper M codes in the start/end codes to

Day 2: Mood Lighting for my Thing-o-matic!

So after installing some custom firmware from Jetty I can now use my 3d printer stand alone with the use of the Gen4 Interface, except for slicing up the 3d file(s) I want to print.  It has support for RGB

Day 2: Mood Lighting for my Thing-o-matic!

So after installing some custom firmware from Jetty I can now use my 3d printer stand alone with the use of the Gen4 Interface, except for slicing up the 3d file(s) I want to print.  It has support for RGB

Day 1 – Blinky POV

I’m using Thing-a-Day 2012 to finally do all those kits I bought at Maker Faire! Today I finished a Blinky POV from Wayne and Layne. These guys hail from HackPittsburgh and have an open-source hardware company! More information about the

Day 1 – Blinky POV

I’m using Thing-a-Day 2012 to finally do all those kits I bought at Maker Faire! Today I finished a Blinky POV from Wayne and Layne. These guys hail from HackPittsburgh and have an open-source hardware company! More information about the