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- Working in Tandem – Unconventional XY-axis layouts for 3D printing, laser cutting, CNC milling, engraving or pick and place.
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- The ideal shape for a multirotor ‘ducted-fan’ that can dramatically improve thrust and flight time.
- Breaking through the 2 hour barrier – Maximising efficiency to achieve the longest flight time of an electric multirotor (quadcopter)
- One step conversion of an image to gcode for Makerbot Unicorn and Reprap style 3D Printers
- DIY Dual H-Bridge to control a Pen Plotter
- Old-school Scientific Pen Plotter Teardown
- Playing around with a heated chamber design.
- MIT: 3-D printing with variable densities
- Mike Biddle: We can recycle plastic
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- 2011 – The year of the 3D printer?
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Tag Archives: recumbent
The ‘Crown’ eTrike PowerTrian
A few words about the powertrain that will be used on the trike. As previously mentioned, it will consist of Matt Shumaker’s single stage Edrive kit with a 4kW (5kW Peak) astroflight Astro 3210 Brushless Motor. This electric motor, when … Continue reading
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Tagged 48 tooth, 48t, cycle analyst, cycling, disc brake adapter, electric bike, eTrike, Greenspeed, recumbent, recumbent bike, recumbent trike, reduction gear, sprocket
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Crown eTrike Batteries – Charging
It appears this may be the most complex part of this project. Thus far everything is very much plug and play. That is, each major component be it the motor, controller etc can be attached and plugged directly to each … Continue reading
Posted in eTrike
Tagged 12s, charging, cycling, electric bike, electronics, eTrike, Greenspeed, recumbent, recumbent bike, recumbent trike, recumbents, tppakcs, trike light
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A few videos of the Recumbent Lights
Went for another ride with a friend tonight and got some video as he took the bike for a spin. It can be found here. I was only using my digital SLR camera to take the video, so its nothing wonderful. … Continue reading
Posted in Trike Lights
Tagged bike video, Cree, LED lights, recumbent, recumbent bike, recumbent light, recumbent trike light, recumbent video, xp-e, XP-G
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Beam Shots of the Recumbent Lights
Here are some beam shots for those interested. The garage door is approx 2m away. These shots will have to do until the weather clears up and I can take it for a ride. The images are taken in the … Continue reading
Posted in Trike Lights
Tagged beam shots, bike lights, fenix, recumbent, recumbent lights, recumbent trike, Trike Lights
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The finished product
Well its all finished! You can click on the images in the gallery below for more info I ended up using a small section of the black anodized Aluminium to house the switches and brightness pot. I also included the … Continue reading
Posted in Trike Lights
Tagged bike lights, Cree, cycling, LED, ledil, power led, recumbent, recumbent bike, recumbent cycle, recumbent lights, trail lights, XR-E, xre
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Picked up parts for work light and low cost light.
Well today I stopped by a factory estate close to my Uni and picked up the pats for the sub $US20 bike light and work light project. I got 4 new MCPCB mounted XP-G LED’s (Q5 bin) and a single … Continue reading
Posted in Low cost lights.
Tagged ledil, lumen, power led driver, recumbent, recumbent trike, XP-G
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Taking the trike lights for a test drive.
I placed the recumbent handle bar lights on my mountain bike this afternoon to take for a test run at night. Once on my mountain bike they looked a little odd to say the least.. However once on the recumbent … Continue reading
Posted in Low cost lights., Trike Lights
Tagged bike light, power led, recumbent, recumbent light, recumbents
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