Do you need inspirations for off the wall ideas? Perhaps you’re trying to innovate, captivate the market through a new trend or you’re a marketing student trying to find new ideas. Different than standard educational posts, I figured this time I would go with a TV show. Here is a show full of ideas –…
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Ever spend some time on YouTube looking at videos wondering how someone edited it and put it together? Ever wanted to do the same for yours? Perhaps to slow down time or zoom and pan on a certain section? Fear not, here is a basic tutorial for Adobe Premiere! These are some basic videos I’ve…
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It’s nice to have plants at home but how often do you forget to water them? That’s why there is some self-watering planters you can easily make at home! The first one is my favorite:https://www.homedit.com/diy-self-watering-planters/ Now it also happens to be a pandemic and everyone is stuck at home. Perhaps you have too many wine…
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While perhaps a bit late to the summer party, it’s not too late to make a UV Sensor! Following my last post about UV light, this is a nice follow up and a good practice for micro controllers. Using an Arduino and one of the easily available UV sensors, you can make your own device…
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Recently I watched a movie where the main story line was a pandemic – a virus was out, killing people in bulk but it only affected half the population. In order to clean their house of the virus and bacteria they decided to put UV light bulbs everywhere. They had a light purple color to…
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Welcome to the last installment of the series for 3D Printer basics. This final post on the topic will wrap up how to finish prints. For those of you who have access to a 3D printer, you can try it at home. For others, you can keep it in mind for when we re-open. For…
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Last week, we discovered support and their uses. Now to add to this, there is an option in Prusa Slicer (and other slicers as well) to create custom support. If you’ve printed before at the Sandbox, you know we have a “Enable Support” checkbox that does it all for you. Sometimes the automatic process over-estimates…
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In this following episode of 3D printers basics, I thought it would be good to talk about “slicers”. Slicers are software that take the file you wish to print and translate it into something called GCode – which are essentially instructions for the printer to follow step-by-step. There’s a few slicing software out there: Cura:…
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This week will continue the topic of 3D printers and common issues. Starting at the basic, we will go for bed leveling. A bed that is not level can cause many of the issues that were present in last week’s guides. While there are many guides available online and YouTube videos, I selected this one…
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My name is Michael. I am an ENCS student and was a regular at the Technology Sandbox before becoming an employee. My interests cover a little bit of everything, like a jack of all trades, with a focus on micro-controllers and things with motors. Aside coding and technology, I also enjoy fixing motorcycles and hacking…
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