Monthly archives: June, 2014

3D Printing in Windows 8.1

Windows 8.1 has some interesting built-in support for 3D printing. They’re treating it a lot like 2D printing, even including a print preview.

Labrigger still recommends outsourcing 3D printing because the technology is improving so…



Air hockey for mice

Mobile HomeCage is a different approach for awake, behaving experiments. It’s from Helsinki-based Neurotar.

Their marketing video is worth a viewing. You won’t regret it.



HD-based pipette beveler

From Andrew Hires’ twitter— repurposing an old hard drive for beveling pipettes. Nice!

Hat tip to Tobias…



OSX features I wish Windows had

Migrating back to Windows after years of using OSX, there are some features I miss.

Default Folder X (link)
Right click on the file name in the title bar to find out what folder that file came…



Open source waterbath

An Arduino-powered open source water bath by Luis Zaman.



Voltset – a smart multimeter for your smartphone

We’ve covered Voltset before. It’s a small multimeter with no display. It plugs into a smartphone for its user interface and logging data (there’s a Bluetooth module as well). This approach opens the possibility of developing interesting custom applications that are discussed on the video above,…



Unusual breadboards from Vere

Vere is a smaller company that Newport, Thorlabs, or TMC. But they’re worth checking out for optical tables, breadboards, beam stops, dumps, enclosures, and whatnot. They have some interesting items.