Interesting evening, and we’ll do it again this Thursday. Earlier in the week, I managed to redesign the pendulum ball holders to snugly fit the magnets in place, as well as being a bit more springy an nicer-looking. My mission for the evening was to print out a few examples and tweak until happy. I did get a few …

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We had an interesting evening. My phone camera is fuzzy, and I forgot to take lots of photos again… Otto showed us his 3D printer battery holder for an ancient Festo drill/driver. Great design, with space for 4 18650 cells and a voltmeter to provide manual discharge cutoff. A really solid way to upcycle a rugged …

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Another successful maker evening! I was so busy that I forgot to take any photos, and I did not make a timelapse, so just a text report this week. Tom brought his little walking robot, an updated version of Bob The Biped . Very nice little robot. Stèph brought his Alphabot 2 robot, which he’s busy getting up and …

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Yesterday evening I hosted a Maker evening in my garage. We had some good discussions and even worked a bit on projects! The garage door was wide open most of the evening, so people had no trouble finding us. Nice warm evening. Timelapse of almost the whole thing here: https://youtu.be/rVXQBAnWsEs Discussions Otto …

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I’ve decided to start holding makers meetups in my garage. I announced it on Facebook on the Arduino Cape Town group and on Zatech Slack. Here’s some info, copied from the announcement posts: Initial announcement: Calling all Makers in the Stellenbosch area! I have a double garage, a bunch of tools for …

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