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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 21
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 21

by Mark Frauenfelder
January 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
176 pages
7h 54m
English
Make: Community
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MAKIZRBIZAM

An open source building system for project boxes, robots, and more.

BY JOHN BAICHTAL

Tinkerers have been using construction toys to build project enclosures for years: Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page famously built their first server case out of repur-posed Mega Bloks. The next logical progression is a construction set that’s built specifically to mount PCBs, sensors, and stepper motors, yet still accommodates traditional projects like robots and vehicles.

One of these building sets is MakerBeam, a system of open source aluminum girders and connectors that resembles an Erector set for adults. It uses a “Mini-T” standard that’s a miniature version of T-slot building systems.

MakerBeam’s Sam Putman, Glenn Powers, and James Coddington ...

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