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I have finished the FabDuino... Have a look at the pictures.

There's more pictures attached.

I decided to find out how accurate I could get the laser cutter... SO I took a bunny outline, and cut it out on mirrored acrylic. The problem when you are working within such a small area though, is that the heat from the laser has no where to spread to, so it all stays together, and scorches or melts the bunny. My way of fixing that was to lower the laser power... A lot...

First Objective: Get the LED to simply Flash on and off without any external user input.

Second Objective: Get the LED to Flash on and off with it's speed dependant from the input from a rotation touch sensor.

First, an interface object is declared then initialized, and then tell it to attempt to open a connection to the kit.

private InterfaceKit interFaceKit; interFaceKit = new InterfaceKit();

interFaceKit.Open();

Company - Detail

Inootec - Samples of Aluminum Foil Tape
Innotec - Samples of Magnetic Tape
Twill USA - Sample Kit coming
Johnsons PLastics - Catalog coming - they don't do samples - They only do a "swatch" book that you have to buy
Laser Sketch - Email sent requesting a samples kit
A&E - Faxed requesting Laser Engraving Start Kit
Gold Coast Graphics - Faxed form requesting a Laser Cutter and Engraving Starter Kit

I have attached the code for the enerjar.

The enerjar is a device that allows you see the actual power draw of an appliance. While this may seem like a cool thing to have. It can also serve a good purpose. Many people wonder how much energy their devices are actually using, so they are able to use the enerjar for that purpose. Other people may not even know how much energy they are using, And the Enerjar may simply raise their awareness of how much energy they are using.

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Benefits of Enerjar

Mill out board

Find specific arduino project

Order needed Parts

Figure out what pin headers are needed

Pick Arduino Project

price enerjar and arduino

Learn how to edit files in blender

Import scanned file into blender

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Heroes Projects

Solder board

Start programming Arduino

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Heroes Projects

Finish Programming Arduino

Design EnerJar Board

Mill EnerJar board

On the shopbot message boards, many users reccomend slower feed rates, and keeping a constant air on them get the chips out as soon as they cut to prevent melting.

Also, using an o-Flute bit to pull the chips out of the cut is recommended.

The Boot loader for the arduino is simply a program that is on the arduino micro controller that allows us to flash the chip without having to use an external flashing device.

You can not overwrite the boot loader with your program because it it is stored in a special section of memory where you can only access with an external flasher.

The bootl oader pulses a signal on pin 13, so to see if there is a boot loader on the chip and it is working, all you have to do is hook an LED up to pin 13 and see if it flashes. If it does, it is already on the chip.