Category Archives: How To’s

How to build a 350 kg squat stand

Once again I have managed to cobble together something in my garage. The whole Covid situation have caused all home-gym equipment to sell out here in Sweden. And from what I understand it is about the same everywhere. All left over equipment is either bad or ridiculously overpriced. So I decided to take matters into […]

Tig welding for the home-gamer

What you absolutely need, what would be a decent set-up and, what would be nice to have to get started in TIG welding in your home shop. Preface The last couple of weeks i have seen the same question pop up in several different places, facebook groups, forums, etc. And these questions didn’t come from […]

Pid Demonstration RIG part 3: The Build Video

It has been a long time in the making but now it is finally here. The companion video to my articles in the PID regulator series. It isn’t much and there are some things I will do differently in the future but for a first video I have to say I am pleased with it. […]

Machine building the smart way

Let me start of by saying that I am not a traditionally trained mechanical engineer, I have studied several subjects that are the same as what mechanical engineers study but I don’t have a degree as a one. I think this might be an advantage when it comes to building machines, cause even if I […]

Sequence programming in C/C++ part 2: Memories

Last time I showed you how to program a sequence that is progressed by increasing a counter variable (Part 1), when a condition is fulfilled we increase the counter variable by one to progress the sequence. A similar type of sequence programming is to use memories instead of a counter so that each memory represents […]

Sequence programming in C/C++ Part 1:Counter

Introduction A sequence is a series of predefined actions with clear conditions for transitioning between each other and since it is predetermined it also has a beginning and an end. Sometimes a sequence is in a loop that repeats itself and in those cases it can be hard to see where it starts and ends […]

How 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. […]

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