It works

My Toaster has a laser and is burning. It FINALLY works.

My First Drawing

This is my first attempt at drawing anything with my toaster and a pen.



The red/blue spot in the middle was the first go, and the second set of blue lines are from me learning to control it. Circles hopefully start tomorrow!

One Stepper Motor Running

CNC Machine: Rev 2

Yet another Toast Artist

Put a Smile on Your Toast

CNC Machine Construction

I spent the bulk of today working on the CNC Laser today to cut out all of the pieces necessary to create my CNC machine. Then, this evening, I took some time to fasten it all together. I sit here this evening, in front of my own, man powered CNC machine. Next step, set up the stepper motors so it can really be computer numerically controlled!

Step, Step, Step it Up!

For the time being, these will be the stepper motors I am going to attempt to work with. They look like they will work well. As needed, they are omnidirectional, so they will be able to move my piece back and forth. Here we go!

Bread + Soldering Iron = Stinky, Inedible Toast

Today I was wondering, "What happens to bread if you simply apply a hot iron to it?" Well, it turns out that it creates stinky, terrible tasting toast. Also, it destroys the surface of the toast. I guess a hot iron is not the solution. Back to the drawing boards!

Tamara Can Print

Today I figured out my 20x4 LCD display.

Although the information on it is not dynamic, I am confident that once I figure out how to extract the information from the RSS feed, I will be able to display it.

After that, all I will have left to figure out is how to print....ha ha ha...oh boy.

More Enabled Breakfast

Tweet-a-Pot: Twitter Enabled Coffee Pot

This is an instructable for making a coffee pot which you can enable remotely. This seems to come from a different perspective on data. Rather than twitter and information invading our lives, this piece is using twitter to inform our lives.

RSS Feed I am Working With

Weather Channel RSS Feed for 95112

This is the RSS Feed I am trying to work with right now. Eventually, I would like arudino to connect to this other website and select the RSS feed based on zip code, but for now, it will be static.

A cool toast artist

SashaPure

This wonderful artist, Sasha, has designed a non working toaster that works like an etch-a-sketch to toast a message. Interesting.

Servo City

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7--fx6fNsvU

Today I sat down with arduino and some continuous rotation servos (Parallax inc, model #900-00008). After some careful tinkering I have figured out how to set the servos to different rates of rotation and also move them in steps separately.