South West Makers

DylanM wrote:What are these?

Think of them as transistors before there were transistors.

Just think how much easier it would have been to make your PiCade

Looking at the video you posted I'm impressed by the size of it. Might have to look at one when I eventually get my workshop.

Yes as BeJay has mentioned just hook up the motor any way you like and test, if incorrect rotation reverse two wire and will work. They are brushless motor and are similar to ones used in quadcopter.

nice one, will be following the build in anticipation

yes saw that paul and has been on my watch list

yes, that's a sizable print job there Stephen! Did you manage to finished off ok? No in the end due to the size and being printed in ABS I getting problems with small delimitations on some corners, not huge problems but not perfect. would have been ok in PLA but the temperatures involved it wouldn'...

My "GoTo" place to order is AliExpress.com and is where basically DX gets its products from, AliExpress is just lots of store fronts so you're dealign with lots of suppliers. I found them very reliable and reputable, I had one product where it wasn't the same as photo, so they gave me ref...

Yes got it all up and running at Saturdays meeting, very clear, nice viewing angle and worked out of the box except for the touch where I had to do an update.

Only 2 .4 watts so will be ideal for your GIS Pi Paul.

I see there are tablet type projects coming our already for this.

Further the discussion at yesterdays meeting here are the links for some good reviews on a a chinese laser cutter.

I found there reviews while researching a laser cutter purchase a while back.

http://www.polygonlabs.com/blog/?page_id=6

http://lowpowerlab.com/blog/2014/05/26/ ... rom-china/

However now I'm starting to lean more towards building my own based on Lasersaur

http://www.lasersaur.com
https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Laser ... ser_Cutter

I'll be there

Just think of the workout you'll be getting when using it...Nice progress

you have been busy....nice one

Interesting read

http://gereports.com.au/post/10-06-2015 ... -be-coders

Have just started playing around with this product so will have a play and bring it to the next meeting.

http://www.embrio.io

Just added a few ideas to the document.

My thoughts are Keep it simple to start with. something like the line following or tabletop comp, then expand out to summo/maze/firefighting/magellan as we all get some experience in building and programming.

I'd been looking from some locally for a while, didn't even think of DX, now have some headed my way as well

Thanks for coming Phil it was a good night

...until they hook you in and you can't do without it in your projects then they pull the rug out from under you split into into many products and charge an annual fee Good old microsoft.

I think I'll be sticking with good ol linux

parkview wrote:Nice one Stephen. I love the visual representation of the data. I guess the rest of the room is out side of the 2-5m range of the unit? What is the current draw of the Lidar unit?

-Paul

Current Draw is about 200mA