My daughter has taken interest in programing through scratch. She enjoys creating storyboards through movements, text and sounds and all that scratch has to offer. Relating and making the connection to her from movements based on time, events or other functions to that of the physical attributions of robotics has struck interest in her, which is why I started looking for a base to work off of. I found Ottobot, which is an open-source project that I didn't have all the parts for. Looking further, I found what I would almost call the designers first version called Tito. I had everything needed for Tito from the Arduino Tito to the servos and mini breadboard. All that was left to do was print. While I have a bit more assembly, I think this will be a great project for her and myself as we work together to promote her growth in understanding of programing and mechanics. Stay tuned!

I have purchased an online PLC training course including 24 hours of video that I am working hard on completing.To aid in my training, I wanted to create a trainer that would give me the basics needs while physically having some hardware to wire up. A trainer of any type should have basic input components such as NC (normally closed) NO (normally open) variation of toggle/push button switches and maybe a inductive proximity to start. These can normally be easily accessible and don't break the bank. Output possibilities for me at this time include pneumatic actuators, streppers and a variation of relays. However, for the most part, desktop training will include mostly indicators. While I originally went bigger with the I/O, I ended up with this; Located in the top right corner of my rack, you can see my arduino rail mounted. Communicating between the arduino and PLC is something I have pondered about since my introduction to the industrial PLC and programmable relays. Lo...

A photo booth holds this nostalgia even in a world where everyone has a high resolution camera in their pocket capable of 16MP photos, people are still amused by a photobooth. It's just, awesome! We wanted to capture that feeling at our wedding and provide guests with a cool and fun way to leave memories and take something home with them at the end of the night. We looked around but everything was costly and bland looking, so I set off with the plan to make one and this a is blog post on how it started. The build I took an older HP Pavilion laptop with a touch screen that was donated to me and completely stripped it apart. This was a great machine to its owner and it is a perfect machine for this build with quad core processor and 8 GB of DDR3. I was given an old brief case from my sister who has an eye for old unique pieces and it just so happens it will fit the screen! To mount the screen I made a rough frame out of wood glued inside the case. I then used a double ...