Cantareus | January 31, 2010
This is my latest project. Converting a broken Brother MFC-425CN into a small plotter. I used the paper feed mechanism and the printer head with the optical encoders and stripped everything else out of the printer. There are a lot of gears and stuff that are used for cleaning the print heads and pumping away [...]
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Tags: microcontroller, plotter, printer, usb
Cantareus | October 28, 2008
I made my first microcontroller based robot over the weekend. It is far from finished. But it can drive around randomly. Getting something to move randomly was harder than it should have been. I realised overnight that I don’t actually need a random number generator if I want it to appear to move randomly. I [...]
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Tags: assembly, lunchbot, microcontroller, robot