Blinkie brainstorming

Idea bucket - I decided to make a place to record brainstorming for Duckon blinkies and other tech panel ideas. I'm hoping that GT and anyone else with good ideas or opinions will take a look and discuss.

I've JUST put it up and I'm remembering ideas about every 20 minutes now so it's growing fast.

It's on the GT wiki, and I had to lock down account creation due to a spammer invasion, but I'll grant an account to anyone legit.

Please use the discussion tab (top left) to talk on the page.

JohnRidleyProjectIdeas - GT Wiki

My android tablet is gone

My android tablet is gone, sold to Audrey. Hope she really enjoys it. I found it an interesting toy but I find that personally I don't have a lot of need to be online away from a computer. I'm sure this simply goes to show how hopelessly antique I am in this regard.

I took the money and turned the majority of it into Maker Faire admittance and a nice new hat.
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Awesomely fast 3D printer

Wow, new entry on the hobbyist 3D printer market, the Ultimaker. It's a clever design variant, it could be based on the RepRap for all I know. Basically they've moved all the motors including the extruder motor off of the moving head to lighten up the moving mass, and that's allowed them to make the thing super fast.

I can totally see building one of these some day, but not as a first printer. All you need to know about to build one given RepRap knowledge is in the video.

But then again, I doubt I will ever actually need that much speed so probably not.

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