My bike light stopped working recently, and putting in new batteries didn’t help. It didn’t look like I could really take it apart without permanent damaging it, so I conceded to buying a new bike light and tore apart the old one.There are a couple of really cool things going on inside this guy, and actually a lot of taking it apart wasn’t terribly destructive. … Continue reading Broken Bike Light
My parents moved to NC and bought an old southern house that had this awesome old doorbell– but it didn’t work. They installed a new-fangled one but let me take the old one back to MIT to see if I could fix it. It was deceptively easy to fix; it was just missing one wire in the back. It’s a pretty neat, simple device. It … Continue reading Old Doorbell
An old treadmill was getting thrown away, so I enlisted some people to help me retrieve its awesome motor. It was pretty tough. There were two main nuts that had to be removed, and at one point I wasn’t convinced we could get the second one off. These things were not made for disassembly. However, some muscle, vice grips, and c-wrenches were able to pry … Continue reading Treadmill Motor Retreivable
Interested in exploring how precisely the craft robo can ‘titrate’, I took it apart more. Specifically, I’m interested in if when you tell the craft robo to print a number of a dots in a row, if it always hits the paper with same force and to the same depth. An interesting thing to see in the craft robo is how it applies the pressure … Continue reading Deeper inside the Craft Robo
Part of my bioprinter project is comparing the printing I can do using my craft robo contraption with the printing done using a modified inkjet printer. Several papers are published on using modified inkjet printers, so it’s a good standard. Following the instructions published in JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) I went out to buy the oldest, shittiest printer I could, because they are less … Continue reading Taking Apart an Inkjet Printer and Cartridge
The main project I’m working on this summer is hacking a CraftRobo cutter to be used as a deposition tool for creating diagnostic tests. The idea is to put cheap, robust, open-ended tools in rural clinics and hospitals to empower them to create the devices and tests they most need without having to rely on multinational corporations deciding the kind of tests they need. Multinational … Continue reading Taking Apart a CraftRobo
