Price drops
I’ve lowered some prices; Igus polymer bushings are now $0.90 a pop, and Prusa Mendel leadscrews-and-nuts sets are now only $50—actually cheaper than you can get the parts directly from Misumi. Pick some up today!
I’ve lowered some prices; Igus polymer bushings are now $0.90 a pop, and Prusa Mendel leadscrews-and-nuts sets are now only $50—actually cheaper than you can get the parts directly from Misumi. Pick some up today!
I bought two precision leadscrews for my MendelMax build, but recently noticed that none of the X-ends out there will fit the leadscrew nuts. Another minor point of contention concerns the holders for the Igus bushings I sell; these bushings were designed to fit into a hole under radial pressure, and the existing holders can [...]
Three days ago I decided to start carrying my usual assortment of belt gear on my left side instead of my right. It felt a little funny as soon as I put the belt on; my body had gotten so used to the two pouches’ presence on my right hip that I didn’t even notice [...]
I feel I owe my readers (all three of you!) an explanation. The posting here really dropped off to nothing recently, but I want to change that. Here’s what happened before, and what I’m doing about it now: For most of the life of this site, it was a regular old technology blog, with a [...]
I died last night. Though traces of me still remain, and others will no doubt continue to address them as if I were still sentient, the shell that was once living is now very thoroughly dead. That’s right: I deactivated my Facebook account. The precise reason why requires a bit of history, so here goes: [...]
My recent foray into wirelessville with the Apple Wireless Keyboard has made me appreciate the advantages its connection method offers, many of them unexpected. Yesterday I was sick. I felt like lounging around watching movies, so I plopped down on the bad and swiveled my display around so I could see it from a reclining [...]
So I figured out how how to get the Apple Wireless Keyboard I wrote about earlier working in Windows. It turns out that there’s this checkbox that comes unchecked by default that you have to check off in order for it to pair correctly. The checkbox is labeled something like “allow Bluetooth devices to find [...]
Apple’s new wireless keyboard has caused a lot of debate and chatter for being something as simple as a keyboard. Apple has never been a company to let a product stagnate, and the new Apple Wireless Keyboard is certainly boldly different from its predecessor. The old one was basically the standard wired keyboard sans USB [...]
It often seems hard for me to believe that the Windows Registry exists. It’s such a monolithically bad design and implementation that it simply boggles my mind. With such a creaking, doddering foundation, it’s no wonder that Windows is so unstable. Bad decisions tend to cause snowball effects; that is, they eventually cause more and [...]
Looks like there’s another up-and-coming iPod competitor looking to challenge the king. Only, this one has a secret weapon; a killer feature that’s sure to generate an inordinate amount of buzz compared to its probably mediocre music playing capabilities. This MP3 player stands to get people talking as much as did the sony “white is [...]