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Building an Arduino Controlled Robot Arm to Move a Camera – Part 2 of 4

The long-awaited follow-up to my first post, here is the second chapter of the arm blog. Yes, you did read that title correctly, there will be four parts to this blog not three. The reason for that is that I realized part of the challenge of writing this was trying to combine hardware and software…



What if you Want to be the Green Lantern?

Today I won’t be linking to any files for 3D printing at home, because I still haven’t finalized the design for this project. If you just want to print the lantern as it is, send me a message through the contact information on my About page and I can give you my current draft. The…



Tripod Compatible Phone Mount

What do you do when you need to attach an iPhone to a tripod? 3D print an adapter of course. You can find the printable file here (if that’s what you’re looking for), and for the rest of the article I’ll talk a bit about the process of designing the piece. Pre-Design I was helping a…



Learning Tableau using Census Data

Before we get started, here is a link to the Tableau Viz I will be discussing, the workbook can be downloaded from there if you have a copy of Tableau, otherwise everything except the data pane will be view-able online. To get the most out of this post I suggest following along with me using either method. What’s…



3D Printed Phone Stand

In this post I’ll be talking a bit about an iPhone stand I designed in Fusion 360 and printed on my FlashForge Dreamer 3D printer. Once I have used the printer more, I’ll write up a post with detailed thoughts on it. For now, I’m quite happy with how it’s performed. Other than needing to…



Building an Arduino Controlled Robot Arm to Move a Camera – Part 1 of 4

Welcome, reader, to my first article and the first part of a 3-part (maybe 4-part) series. This series will be focused on wiring up a toy robot arm with an Arduino used to replace the controller. I’ll be doing my best to keep this all as readable as possible, and to be open about the…