CTC Bizer Duplicator... My new 3D printer

I've always found it interesting, but until recently 3D printing has been just a little too expensive for me to pull the trigger on buying my own machine.

A couple of months ago I saw an auction on eBay for a decently-priced clone of a MakerBot Replicator and had my impulsive "Best Offer" bid accepted instantly...*gulp*

Je ne regrette rien

Before MakerBot went all evil, they put out a really sturdy open-source machine in the Replicator. 

Predictably there are now some really affordable clones of the original Replicator available, and the version I bought was from a company called CTC.

This was the version I got, plain black plywood with an aluminium heated bed

It's Aliiiiiive...

Just stumbled across my old blog from years ago...

Turns out I'm still paying for the domain. It'd be a shame to keep it empty so I'll start to share details of some of my hobbies again.

Building a Cube64... part 1

A few years ago I came across a nice project, it was an adapter for gamecube controllers on the n64.

I thought at the time it would be very cool to build one of these into an n64 controller plug, but it ended up in my "ideas i'll get round-to one day" pile and I never actually made anything of it.

Recently darthcloud added some new features to the code, so I decided I'd finally have a go at building one.

Wii Sensor Bar Projector

Recently I've been playing my Wii more and more, and it's really great to play with a few friends on a big screen projector.

The problem is, any games that use the pointer need the sensor bar set up. With my projector that means having the Wii in the middle of the room and balancing the sensor bar on a chair so all the wires reach, no good at all.

In this post I'll write about how I built a sensor bar "projector" to overcome these problems without having to fix anything permanently to the wall.

My Backlit Dreamcast VMU

Love it or hate it, the DC controller was pretty innovative. Analogue stick in the "right" place, analogue triggers, and of course the VMU.

The VMU slotted into the controller and could display extra game information like health or ammo.

It also served as the memory card, and could download mini-games to play independently of the main console. Cool, right?

So I made a back-light for mine, no real reason other than why not?