January 2010
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
7h 54m
English
An open source building system for project boxes, robots, and more.
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 ...