Monthly Archives: August 2019
Why HMI:s should be made intuitive
Take a look at the picture above and try to imagine how long it took the astronauts to learn the position and function of every button on there. The picture is of the interior of Apollo 11’s Command Module “Columbia” . Photographer Eric Long, Courtesy of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum I am […]
Continue readingHow not to build a 3D printer
How not to build a 3D printer I have a 3D printer. It’s a Cartesian printer with a build volume of 300×300x280mm and it is controlled with a RAMPS board on a Arduino Mega running the software Repetier. It’s frame is based on extruded aluminium profile and the rest of the hardware is milled aluminium. […]
Continue readingSoftware based PID regulators
Introduction What is a PID regulator? The short answer is that it is an automated control function. The long answer could fill a couple of textbooks. Because of this I won’t delve to deep into the subject but I have an upcoming project that utilises a PI regulator so writing some form of introduction seemed […]
Continue readingThe site is live!
I have finished with both the About me page, and the purpose page. They are both live. Sure they have some over lap but I figure it is better to go ugly early than postpone publishing anything. I can always update them in the future. I probably will at some point but til then, have […]
Continue readingFirst visitor!
I just noticed something fun! According to my analytics widget I recently had my first visitor. My bounce rate is currently 100% by the way. I’m guessing that this will change when there is any content at all on the site. I mean so far I only have a short explanation of the page online, […]
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