MakerBot Industries

We are happy to announce that our Unos finally came in Monday!

http://store.makerbot.com/arduino-uno.html

Photo courtesy of Arduino.cc

Battery Compartment with contacts

Obijuan’s use of captive nuts plus bolts to connect to the batteries is just brilliant.  The nut/bolt system will hold the battery in place tightly, provide electrical contact, and give you a place to connect a wire securely.  And, if necessary, you could always solder the wire directly to the bolt.

Forklift delivered to the Botcave in anticipation of growth. Photo taken on September 13, 2010 by Olivia Koski

Remember just a few months ago when we had that forklift delivered and we needed a forklift to lift it?

Less than a month ago, the Botcave warehouse was full of loosely organized but slightly messy piles of boxes.

The Botcave warehouse before shelves were installed. Photo taken on October 18, 2010 by Olivia Koski

Well, things are a lot different now. Our garage has been transformed with the addition of towering shelves that keep our ever expanding stock of MakerBot items organized.

Towering shelves line the Botcave warehouse. Photo taken on November 29, 2010 by Olivia Koski

It’s a good thing we got the forklift when we did!

It’s amazing how quickly things change at the Botcave.

Solstice Calendar Observatory

Carmiac’s solstice calendar observatory is advertised as coming with a crazy number of configurable options with a parametric OpenSCAD design. It can be used to generate an observatory for nearly any location on earth or another seven planets in our solar system.¹

How cool is it to own a machine capable of generating observatories???

1. I checked the source code – all too sadly, poor Pluto is left out.  [↩]