If you’re a budding engineer, a maker, or just someone interested in electro-mechanical engineering, mechanisms, mechatronics, animatronics, or automata, here’s a very interesting guy you need to check out. His name is Tim Hunkin and he’s on YouTube. He creates really fun and bazaar electro-mechanical ‘novelties’ as he calls them. He even has an arcade […]
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If you’re interested in getting started with CAD (Computer Aided Design), join the club! I have experimented with all sorts of CAD programs over many years. I’ve never spent enough time with any of them to be any good, but I have learned a few things that might help you out. When I got my
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For a long time I considered ‘o-ring’ to be the proper terminology for a drive belt in little DIY (do it yourself) animatronic projects. But when trying to purchase some o-ring drive belts, I discovered that the term ‘o-ring’ by itself is technically wrong. O-rings are for sealing things (like valves). Better terminology when using
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If you’re going to purchase resistors, don’t get these blue ones. The color bands that show the values don’t show up well enough against the blue background. They’re fine if you only use a single value, but if you regularly need to read different values they’re very difficult to read — at least for me,
Oh boy, was I confused about this module at first! I found a fair amount of bits and pieces about it, but could not find the complete info that I was looking for. So I decided to create this tutorial for others who want to understand it better. I’m not an expert, but I have
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