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Month: February 2018

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Laser cutter/Engraver add-on for 3D printer

By Atrixium 26 Feb, 2018 Leave a comment

A while back I was mulling over the idea of a laser engraved PCB etching process and I found a 2.5 Watt cutting laser diode on sale for cheap on Banggood and decided to go for it, many months later I finally managed to get around to testing it and the laser works great! I

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Mapping a small sensor range to full ADC range

By Atrixium 18 Feb, 2018 Leave a comment

Today I decided to look into a more elegant solution to the problem of accurately determining the angle of my rudder pedals, previously I had solved this problem with a mechanical solution that converted the specific degrees of rotation of the rudder pedal cross arm to the 270° rotation of the potentiometer I’m using. This

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Capturing a time lapse from a Raspbery Pi camera

By Atrixium 11 Feb, 2018 Leave a comment

After running into a bug with VLC capturing images from an RTSP stream in Linux, I decided to go a different route for capturing time lapses from my 3D printer and that was to use a local script on the PI that can be run with command line parameters to set the interval and duration

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Capturing a time lapse from an RTSP Stream

By Atrixium 5 Feb, 2018 Leave a comment

I was looking for a better way to capture time lapse recordings of my 3D printer, Octopi on my old raspberry Pi just wasn’t cutting it, so I decided to setup an RTSP stream as per this post here by Chris Carey, that was straightforward enough, but then I needed a way to periodically grab frames

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