Saturday, January 05, 2008
IKEA Modding
In my quest for simplicity I decided to build a RepStrap frame with only this hardware:
I went to the hardware store and bought _all_ the rods they had and some nuts & washers.
Once started, it all seemed fairly easy, except from the clumsy handling with the 100 cm rods that I was afraid to cut too early.
When the frame started to take the shape of a cube there was a frightening amount of wobble.
Then I finally used my swedish "secret weapon" because I was hoping it would make the wobble do away completely - and it did.
That beast is rigid as hell!
- 8mm threaded rod (12x)
- M8 nuts + washers (48x)
- a log of wood
- IKEA Observatör 70x70 cross-brace (5x) (1 £ / 1.90€ each)
Once started, it all seemed fairly easy, except from the clumsy handling with the 100 cm rods that I was afraid to cut too early.
When the frame started to take the shape of a cube there was a frightening amount of wobble.
Then I finally used my swedish "secret weapon" because I was hoping it would make the wobble do away completely - and it did.
That beast is rigid as hell!
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Not exactly, though I like the idea of the Arduino a lot.
I successfully finished two ATMega8/168-Boards with builtin programmer (13 € each) from this source:
http://www.myavr.de/shop/article.php?artDataID=2
If I'm lucky, I can use the Arduino software without too much trouble.
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I successfully finished two ATMega8/168-Boards with builtin programmer (13 € each) from this source:
http://www.myavr.de/shop/article.php?artDataID=2
If I'm lucky, I can use the Arduino software without too much trouble.
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