Good Structured Light Scanner for sub £150
3rd May 2020In my ongoing mission to make everything in my life more prone to breaking by connecting them to Alexa i’ve come across multiple times where I’ve wished I could scan a part. Now you can buy/make a 3D scanner off le interweb and the budget laser line ones come in at around £100. These give ok results but are really only meant for smaller objects. Also that all just seems a little too easy for my liking. So I got myself a cheap second hand projector, a couple of cheap QHD CCTV cameras, a raspberry pi and endless indoor quarantine…
Tall Frappe WiPi Latte Part II – Software
WiFi connected smart coffee machine #thedream. I have a Delonghi Magnifica – a magnificent coffee generating machine with just flaw. You have to physically press buttons and turn dials. So we better do something about that! The Plan: Add a…
Tall Frappe WiPi Latte Part I – Hacking In
You could make this hardware as over complicated as you want – reverse engineer the whole machine and some. but in order to keep this all as simple and reliable as possible and given we have more than enough I/O…
New Defender
Slightly biased but what a beautiful taildoor and bonnet
Arduino + MusicCast
Yamaha’s MusicCast system is my absolute favourite multi-room audio solution. It offers a huge variety of fantastic sounding devices for relatively affordable prices. But the best bit by far is their use of HTTP requests for remote control. This means…
Functional What-ological Disorder
You know those days when you’re partaking in a prolonged visit to the haberdashery section of John Lewis one minute and 20 minutes later you can’t move your right leg, neck or abdomen? and I know what you’re thinking “yeah…
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