Book description
Even if you've never touched a 3D printer, these projects will excite and empower you to learn new skills, extend your current abilities, and awaken your creative impulses. Each project uses a unique combination of electronics, hand assembly techniques, custom 3D-printed parts, and software, while teaching you how to think through and execute your own ideas.
Written by the founder of Printrbot, his staff, and veteran DIY authors, this book of projects exemplifies the broad range of highly personalized, limit-pushing project possibilities of 3D printing when combined with affordable electronic components and materials.
In Make: 3D Printing Projects, you'll:
- Print and assemble a modular lamp that's suitable for beginners--and quickly gets you incorporating electronics into 3D-printed structures.
- Learn about RC vehicles by fabricating--and driving--your own sleek, shiny, and fast Inverted Trike.
- Model a 1950s-style Raygun Pen through a step-by-step primer on how to augment an existing object through rapid prototyping.
- Fabricate a fully functional, battery-powered screwdriver, while learning how to tear down and reconstruct your own tools.
- Get hands-on with animatronics by building your own set of life-like mechanical eyes.
- Make a Raspberry Pi robot that rides a monorail of string, can turn corners, runs its own web server, streams video, and is remote-controlled from your phone.
- Build and customize a bubble-blowing robot, flower watering contraption, and a DIY camera gimbal.
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. LAMP3D
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2. 1950s Raygun Pen
- Parts, Tools, and Files
- Brainstorming the Raygun Pen
- Selecting a Pen
- Prototyping the Grip
- Developing the NeoPixel Shell
- Prototyping the Circuit
- NeoPixel Animation
- Connect the NeoPixel Ring
- Breadboard the Circuit
- Transferring the Circuit
- Final Electronics Assembly
- Light It Up!
- Upgrades and Improvements
- 3. Two-Axis Camera Gimbal
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4. BubbleBot
- Parts, Tools, and Files
- Fabricate the Chassis
- Assemble the Chassis
- Paint the Chassis
- Assemble the Fan Mount
- Attach Fan to Chassis
- Attach the Stepper
- Attach the Shaft Coupler to the Axle
- Make the Bubble Solution Reservoir
- Print the Bubble Wand
- Assemble the Bubble Wand
- Attach the Bubble Wand
- Solder the Headers
- Solder the Stepper Wires
- Add Power Connections
- Connect the Sensor
- Add the Fan
- Download and Customize the Code
- 5. DDriver Rechargeable Screwdriver
- 6. Animatronic Eyes
- 7. Inverted Trike RC
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8. Skycam
- Parts, Tools, and Files
- Assemble the Top Plate
- Raspberry PI SD Software Setup
- Install Google Coder for Raspberry Pi
- Install Pi-Blaster on Your Raspberry Pi
- Install MJPG-Streamer and Enable Your Camera
- Assemble the Midsection
- Add the Endstops
- Camera Assembly
- Attach the Camera to the Bottom Plate
- Electronics!
- Power and Signal
- Connect the Pi
- Test the Software Controls
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9. Chauncey: The Wrylon Robotical Flower Care Robot
- Files, Parts, and Tools
- Fabrication Phases
- Print and Assemble the Legs and Feet
- Print the Body
- Assemble the Body
- Create the Watering Contraption
- Electro-Mechanical Prep
- Painting
- Electro-Mechanical and Software Overview
- Hardware Assembly
- Programming the Arduino
- Brain Implant and Assembly
- Testing/Deployment
- Upgrades
- A. Installing Arduino Libraries
- Index
Product information
- Title: 3D Printing Projects
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2015
- Publisher(s): Make: Community
- ISBN: 9781457187209
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