Status of BusKill Open Hardware Project

I’ve been working on an open source hardware project for a couple of years called BusKill. It’s a security cord that shuts down a computer if it’s physically separated from you. Quick overview My colleague Michael Altfield and some volunteer developers wrote BusKill software. This software is free and open source and works on Windows,

Assembled the Themistor

Kapton tape should arrive in a week so that I can attach it to the heatbed. As far as the problems I was having earlier.  I addressed them mostly by cutting off a bit of the sleeve on the thermistor, this made getting the wires around each other easier.  I was able then to slide

Thermistor kit

Apparently this arrived in my mailbox four days ago unbeknownst to me. So far, I have soldered that yellow and grey cord you see there to the back of the bed. But the thermistor itself? Blast the darn thing. I don’t have a device for crimping the ferrels and goodness knows if i am capable

RAMPS

In this picture, I have wired the power and stepper motors to the RAMPS v1.4 board. It is ready to be wired to the RepRap as soon as I have a few replacement parts printed out and have connected the hot end to the extruder.

My desk

I got a cool desk from IKEA, but have only had half of it built for awhile. Today, I finally finished it up. Unfortunately during my move, I damaged a poster I got from the American Mathematics Society. I took this as an opportunity to add a bit o…

Style Guide

This week at work, I’ve independently assigned myself the task of creating a style guide for the instructional design unit. I’m basing it loosely on the Science and Technical Writing style guide I’ve been reading, but I also plan to draw from many…