Author Archives: Aaron Ramsey

Depanelizing PCBs

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Aaron Ramsey

Just a quick video showing how I depanelize PCBs. I typically buy PCBs from SeeedStudio or iTeadStudio and it makes sense to use the 10cm by 10cm board size and jam more than one PCB into that area. Diptrace (my … Continue reading →

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Lasering and 3D Printing

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Aaron Ramsey

One of the big reasons to get the K40-III 40W engraving laser was to make stencils for PCBs. When I first got the machine, I ebay’d some 5mil laser transparencies as it sounded like some people had success with that. … Continue reading →

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Printrbot Jr. saves the day

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Aaron Ramsey

Well, I’ve had the Printrbot Jr. up and running for over a month now. Maybe more. Had plenty of help putting it together. The design is quite nice and appears to be well thought out. The kids had little trouble … Continue reading →

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Printrbot Jr. Arrives…. mostly

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Aaron Ramsey

Its been a fun week… first the laser and now the Printrbot Jr. arrived last night! We weren’t going to build the printer until this weekend, but decided to take a look at all the pretty wood pieces. Printrbot has … Continue reading →

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Holy Frikkin’ Laser!

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Aaron Ramsey

  Well, the K40-III 40W laser arrived! I bought it on ebay from a seller called ‘rumei-shopping’. $853 bucks later (+$53 for brokerage and taxes) and Fedex dropped it off this afternoon for me to play with. The packaging that … Continue reading →

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Back in the swing of things after a quiet summer!

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Aaron Ramsey

Its been a while since the last post on this blog… summer is always slow. Some work on my Robomagellan robot but its still in pieces. My prusa 3D printer keeps chugging along. Its basically design and print at this … Continue reading →

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Still 3D printing…

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Aaron Ramsey

After spending the last couple months tweaking, tuning and generally goofing around with my Prusa Reprap 3D printer, this weekend I figured it was finally time to start printing robot parts. I’ve had a minisumo design kicking around for the … Continue reading →

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2012 Trinity Firefighting Competition

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Aaron Ramsey

A small group of us from Ottawa made the trek down to Hartford, CT for the firefighting competition. 2 of our members competed. It didn’t go as planned, but I think everyone had fun anyhow. 😉 Anyhow, just a bunch … Continue reading →

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The Reprap Prusa 3D printer lives! Finally. ;-)

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Aaron Ramsey

Well, I picked up the pieces for a Prusa 3D printer last year (as documented on this blog somewhere) and quickly built up the frame. I sourced the bits and pieces from all over which meant that some of it … Continue reading →

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Get a grip

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Aaron Ramsey

The time has finally come to make a robot arm. Its been on list of things to do since forever. Possibly even longer. The gripper had me scratching my head a bit. Until I realized that it was pretty dang … Continue reading →

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