ABS warping and PLA broken filaments is a very well known issue in the 3d print world! At Artica we have our good old BFB3000 and we solved this problems using what I have later proudly called “mancave solutions”!! :D Here I am using a heater pointed to the printer, this keeps the object and [...]
Magabot is an open hardware and software robotics platform designed to stimulate creative minds. Any robot with a computer is a very powerfull robot, and because all laptops have a camera, a screen, speakers, microphone, batteries and usb interfaces, your robotics experience will be empowered with Magabot. This project is being developed in a partnership [...]
At Artica, we had a request to link MAXMSP to an industrial motor for an artistic installation witch we will speak about at another time. This motor is a true beast, and since we have never worked with such a thing we decided to ask for help to our electronics guru David Palma. The motor [...]
No último sábado, 5 de Fevereiro, o altlab organizou o Arduino Hack Day. Participaram no evento perto de 40 pessoas, entre entusiastas em electrónica, artistas, programadores, arquitectos, fotógrafos, amigos. Para muitos, foi o primeiro contacto com o Arduino, a descoberta da simplicidade desta plataforma para o desenvolvimento de projectos de computação física. Distribuídos por quatro [...]
We at Artica are taking this manifesto very seriouslly: Due to a stupid mistake (inverted power wires), this battery charger (the best that my fingers ever touched) smoked for a second or two: When we opened the case, there was this little SMD with a strange eruption result of an overburn, it was definetely what [...]
