Posted on August 27th, 2008 by Zach Smith
I got back from vacation on Sunday. I had a fantastic time driving through the Pacific Northwest. Lots of gorgeous scenery. Anyway, I’m finally almost caught up with things. I only have about 19 / 50 orders left to ship and those are all just waiting on out of stock parts. [...]
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Posted on August 15th, 2008 by Zach Smith
Good news!
Today is my last day at Vimeo. While I’m sad to leave such a fun and awesome company, I’m even more excited to be able to devote quite a bit more time to my true passion: building self-replicating 3D printers. It may not be obvious, but I’ve been extremely busy lately. [...]
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Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Zach Smith
Opto Endstops
This is bad news with a bit of good/optimistic news. The bad news is that we’ve bought out all of the H21LOI chips from every North American supplier. Lead times from the manufacturer are about 34 weeks. The good news is that we managed to buy about a thousand opto isolators, [...]
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Posted on August 12th, 2008 by Zach Smith
Hey Boss,
I’m going on vacation! I’m leaving NYC on Saturday, August 16th. I’m flying to Portland, Oregon with my wonderful girlfriend, Jen. We’re renting a convertible, and we’re driving down to San Francisco over the course of a week, camping and enjoying ourselves along the way. We fly back Saturday, August [...]
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Posted on August 8th, 2008 by Zach Smith
I’m really really really excited to announce this new product. This one was directly conceived, funded, and produced here by the RRRF as a direct result of the kind souls who have supported us so far. To get to the meat, the Sanguino is a new microcontroller board inspired by the Arduino. [...]
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