How to build a cheap DIY drone at home with a raspberry pi zero and Linux
Hi, You hear everyday about drone in different sectors (Agriculture, take pictures, leisure, race...) and want to build your own. You are at the right place. The bonus in this project is that you'll be able to use the raspberry pi zero, the last one in the raspberry pi family with a small board, a very low consumption, equiped with bluetooth and wifi for all the wireless persons. To do this, you gonna need some tools: A screwdriver Tape A soldering iron And also parts for you
The Android developer conference in Washington DC from june 17th to 19th
Hi Friends makers, You may already know Andoid operating system because you have an Android smartphone or you are an Android Developer. As a fact, you may be interested in the following. From July 17th to July 19, Washington DC will host the "Android Developer Conference" for all of you that want to know the latest news and improvement with this OS (operating system). During those 3 days, you will be able to find: Conferences with Android experts speakers Keynotes Exhibitors
Poppy Ergo Jr: How to build an open source and open hardware 3D printed robot for education
Poppy ergo Jr is open source 3D printed robot developped by Inria laboratory in Bordeaux, France. This robot "Ergor Jr" was developped following an first initiative that was to create a humanoid 3D printed robot called Poppy in 2012. This robot was built with the open source and open hardware spirit. Let's go back to Poppy ergo jr. Poppy ergo jr was developed to introduce STEM education to the students. It includes for less than $400 : A couple dynamixel motors than can track
Week of making 2017: The maker's week in America
For all the makers that like to tink and create technical things, The week of making is there for you and it's in all the country and it's celebrated from June 16th to June 22th 2017. All the makers around the country (artists, makerspaces, hackerspaces, fablab, students, engineers) celebrate innovation by organising their own events where you are all invited to assit. It could be a hands on project (how to build a create a drone, a 3d printer, a robot..) or a class where yo
Fuse 1: The $9999 SLS 3D printer by Formlabs on your desktop
We all know Formlabs for their 3D printers. Or maybe not everyone, but for all of you that don"t, it's the first company that created a desktop SLA 3D printer "Stereolithograhy" for less than $3500 a few years ago. This is a 3D printer working with a polymere resin and ultraviolet for our object solidifaction. To stay in the same concept, Formlabs backslided once again by annoucing a desktop SLS 3D printer baptised Fuse 1 for the and of 2017. You can now book your 3D printer
How to smooth a 3D object with Meshlab for 3D printing
Hey friends maker, You just got a 3D object from an online platform (Thingiverse, youmagine, 3DCults, Imaterialise ...). The only problem is that your object is not very smooth and you want to smooth it yourself without paying a dime. I got a good solution for you. You can use a free software that we already talked about before "Meshlab" . Firstly, you need to dowload the correct version of the software depending of your computer architecture and of course your operating syst
How to read and visualise a 3D file
You just got a 3d file from one of those popular websites (Thingiverse.com, Youmagine, 3DHubs), you created it from scratch or a friend gave it to you. But you want now visualise it. You can visualise a 3D file with whatever the extension (STL, OBJ, PLY...) without paying a penny with the differents kind of open-source software you can find on internet. I advice you to download MESHLAB with the following link depending of your OS "Operating System": Download Meshlab. When it'
