Creating With Code

In the previous posts in this series, I hacked up a Canon camera to take pictures with an electronic trigger, built a cable to connect the camera to my MakerBot, and hacked the MakerBot’s firmware to enable it to trigger the camera in response to commands from the controlling computer. The final step was to [...]

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While I know I should be finishing my MakerBot time-lapse camera series, I took some time for another project to play with some Processing. The above image was rendered in Processing, in real time in just couple of minutes! Basically, I wanted to take a simple shape, defined by an SVG path, and fill it [...]

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In the previous post in this series, I figured out how to wire up my hacked Canon SD300 with CHDK. I chose to use the “D9″ port on the Extruder controller board, thinking that should make the software as simple as setting pin 9 to “HIGH” for a brief time whenever I wanted to trigger [...]

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It works! Using a Canon SD300 with CHDK, and some firmware hacks, Makerbot #131 has learned how to make time-lapse videos of all of its prints! More details (and a how-to!) coming soon! And thanks to Thingiverse user Starno for the bottle opener model in the video.

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