I built a computer! A very primitive one, made out of breadboards, bare wire, and logic gates. But it’s fully functioning, it looks awesome, and unlike the staggering complexity of…
I made a computer - here's how it works! This is going to be too technical an overview for those without any background knowledge. But for those who made their…
I built a laser cutter! Specifically the Lasersaur, which is a professional grade open-source project. The idea is to use it to make more wooden topo maps, sell them on…
When building the Lasersaur laser cutter, a resource that was super helpful for me was Chris Derossi's excellent post on his own cost breakdown. I figured it's be useful to…
The Lasersaur build guide gives you a well-performing machine that can control your laser beam and put it anywhere on the cutting bed that you need it. But it conspicuously…
As is, the Lasersaur I built comes with a very capable interface, but along with the hardware mods there were a few tweaks to the UI and machine behavior that…
So now that I have a fancy programmable computer working with its guts bare to the world, what can I do with it? Well, not much. The 8 bits of…
A couple months ago, I was on the internet and ran across Below The Boat, a website that sells wooden topographical maps of interesting lakefloors and seafloors around the world.…
Today I'll be walking you through the process how to of make a wooden laser-cut topo map. I made one of my hometown of Portland, ME as a 2015 Christmas present…
So you've followed the steps to design your topo map by reading through the post detailing the design phase. Time to cut it out and build it! The build process:…