As an Amazon Affiliate I get a portion of all qualifying sales to help support this site. Quick Links Part 1 – Filament Health Monitor Part 1 – Bill of Materials Part 1 – 3D Printed Parts Part 2 – Mechanical Assembly Part 3 – Electronics Part 4 – Software Tools – Rediscovering Wire Wrapping Tools – Arduino Development in […]
Part 1 – Filament Health Monitor Part 1 – Bill of Materials Part 1 – 3D Printed Parts Part 2 – Mechanical Assembly Part 3 – Electronics Part 4 – Software Tools – Rediscovering Wire Wrapping Tools – Arduino Development in Visual Studio Code Config – How to setup the Arduino IDE for the ESP8266 Config – How to install […]
Introduction / Summary The Filament Health Monitor is a Web Enabled 3D printer Filament Monitor System and spool holder. This setup will monitor and report the following to a custom web view/api: Weight of filament left (upto 5kg) Humidity Temperature Color of material loaded It also includes a small LCD screen which reports the weight, humidity and the current IP […]
Background Think of wire wrapping as a permanent (Although revisable) form of bread boarding. It is a technique for producing highly reliabe low cost / low run count electronic assemblies. In fact, it was so much so that it is the technique used for the Apollo guidance computer used to go to the moon and that survived a rocket launch. […]
Arduino and its associated IDE (Integrated Development Environment) have been a stable of many of my projects. Even with its utility, it lacks many of the features I have grown accustom to in my other development endeavors. I usually work in Visual Studio Code (VSCode) and got to thinking, “Why can’t I us it to edit my Arduino Sketches.” Well, […]
If you are just joining us, Part 1: Custom Built CNC, an Introduction Part 2: Building the Structure, Folding CNC Part 3: CNC Electronics Part 4: Working with GRBL The Problem: My router has two different attachments, a wood router and a laser burner. They both need to be controlled using the same Mega and I want different RPM input […]
If you are just joining us, take a look at part 1 and 2 at: Custom Built CNC, an Introduction https://replicantfx.com/cncpart1/ Building the Structure, Folding CNC https://replicantfx.com/cncpart2/ Version 1 (G251 + parallel breakout board) It took me a long time in life to realize I should do it right the first time, but lets not be too tough on me. […]