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Compiling Slic3r on Raspberry Pi
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Hoektronics.com - Automate Everything. Compiling Slic3r on Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi makes a great little controller for BotQueue, but it until I add cloud based slicing, the gcode generation needs to happen on the Pi itself. Since the Raspberry is on the ARM architecture, there is not precompiled version available to use. The good news is that its pretty easy to install from source. The first step is to install the prerequisite software using apt-get:. Sudo apt-get install screen. Now that all the ...
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Hoektronics.com - Automate Everything. Electric Scooter Battery Upgrade – Pt. 3 – Building the Pack. In the last post, I decided on the 15Ah LiFePo4 cylinders in the 40152 size. The first thing I did before assembly was to take some black electrical tape and use it to mark the negative terminals. You can tell the difference between negative and positive with a multimeter or by looking carefully, but I wanted to know which was with with a simple glance. This turned out to be a really good idea. The protec...
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Electric Scooter Battery Upgrade – Pt. 3 – Building the Pack
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Hoektronics.com - Automate Everything. Electric Scooter Battery Upgrade – Pt. 3 – Building the Pack. In the last post, I decided on the 15Ah LiFePo4 cylinders in the 40152 size. The first thing I did before assembly was to take some black electrical tape and use it to mark the negative terminals. You can tell the difference between negative and positive with a multimeter or by looking carefully, but I wanted to know which was with with a simple glance. This turned out to be a really good idea. The protec...
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Category Archive for "Electric Vehicles" | Hoektronics.com
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Hoektronics.com - Automate Everything. Electric Scooter Battery Upgrade – Pt. 3 – Building the Pack. In the last post, I decided on the 15Ah LiFePo4 cylinders in the 40152 size. The first thing I did before assembly was to take some black electrical tape and use it to mark the negative terminals. You can tell the difference between negative and positive with a multimeter or by looking carefully, but I wanted to know which was with with a simple glance. This turned out to be a really good idea. The protec...
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2013 April 28 Archive | Hoektronics.com
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Hoektronics.com - Automate Everything. Daily Archives: April 28, 2013. Nah, First to Blog! Idea 1: 3 Point Planar Bed Leveling for 3D Printer or Other Digital Fabrication Device. Idea 2: Adaptive Digital Fabrication with Camera Feedback. Idea 3: Combined CNC 3D Printing for High Precision Layers. Idea 4: Encoder Wheel on Filament Input to Detect Jamming or Stripping. Idea 5: Ultrasonic Welding of Microfilaments. Idea 6: Pick and Place with Built-In Heated Build Platform. April 28, 2013. On First to File?
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2013 December 07 Archive | Hoektronics.com
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Hoektronics.com - Automate Everything. Daily Archives: December 7, 2013. Electric Scooter Battery Upgrade – Pt. 2 – Battery Selection. After getting my tools ready in part 1. I was ready to start deciding on which battery to use. I scoured Taobao for many different batteries, including the infamous ‘Ultrafire’ batteries which claim a ridiculous 5500mAh capacity. I ordered a couple of each different kind of batteries from a bunch of different vendors. Sanyo 18650 @ 2600mAh – Tested 2510 mAh. On the spread...
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Electric Scooter Battery Upgrade – Pt. 1 – Preparation
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Hoektronics.com - Automate Everything. Electric Scooter Battery Upgrade – Pt. 1 – Preparation. I’ve been reading quite a bit about lithium based batteries on awesome sites like Endless Sphere. Of course living in Shenzhen and buying stuff off Taobao, you have to be on guard. Especially with stuff like batteries where its easy to make a claim. The first thing I did was source a battery tester. This will measure the actual capacity of the battery (measured in amp-hours (aH) . I’ve started to order a ...
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Category Archive for "Shenzhen" | Hoektronics.com
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Hoektronics.com - Automate Everything. Meet a Shenzhen Maker: Mr. Chen. I’ve been living in Shenzhen for almost 2 years now, and I’m continually amazed by this city. The people here are creative, it has the best resources for building things you can find anywhere in the world, an amazing climate, and friendly people everywhere. This is the story of one particular Maker I’ve met in Shenzhen, Mr. Chen. That I found on Taobao and through that I discovered www.diysmt.org. We arrived in a neighborhood on the ...
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Project Scan Trike
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Hoektronics.com - Automate Everything. I’m in love with electric bikes. They’re cheap, quick, cost nothing to run, and get me everywhere I need to go in the city. In Shenzhen I can drive it year-round and an electric bike is truly king of the road here – I can drive literally anywhere I want: from sidewalks to highways. Lately a few things have conspired to take my passion to the next level. First, I got a 3D scanner and software combo that works really well. The Primesense Carmine 1.09. Once we get this...
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Hoektronics.com - Automate Everything. Hoektronics – Coming soon. There’s nothing to see here… yet. This site is the future blog home for myself, Zach Hoeken. You will find posts about projects I’m working on, boards I’ve designed, crazy things I’ve seen in China, and musings about life, open hardware, and all sorts of other stuff. July 26, 2012. Hoeken – follow me on Twitter. BotQueue.com – Distributed Manufacturing. Engrsh – Hilariously Bad English. ZachHoeken.com – Personal Site.