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3D Printed Pegboard Project

Brian Fife — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 14:02:37 -0400

Here is the video (and model links) for the exhibit I have showed at the 2020 Virtual East Coast RepRap Festival.

I am just getting started with this project - new files will be updated on this page as I create them.

YouTube Video

Parts associated with this project:

Pegboard Hook …

RC Boat

Brian Fife — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 01:59:31 -0400

I build an RC boat “from scratch” out of parts I had purchased for an RC car. To learn more, click through and read the article.

SmartDIYs DS Laser Build (and Upgrade)

Brian Fife — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 01:42:53 -0400

An overview of our experience building the SmartDIYs FABOOL Laser DS, and then ripping out all the electronics and replacing them with different parts.

SimpleEinsyRambo Build

Brian Fife — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 23:49:06 -0400

I’ve had a chance to get pretty familiar with the mechanical design of the Printrbot Simple Pro. It is a straightforward and memorable design, and makes great prints. This printer is a classic Brook Drumm - tight clearances and compact spaces are a design goal. Built like a tank and hits the sweet spot between rigidity and portability. I got my hands on a Simple Pro chassis; mechanical parts only. You may have picked up one of these when Brook ran a “rolling stock” sale on the Printrbot store. I wanted to put together electronics for a printer from scratch. This post is not a guide - if you aren’t comfortable starting a “kit” project with only 80% of the materials and knowledge you need to finish, you should not consider a project like this. That said, I found it to be a great learning experience and wanted to share my work here so people knew what parts I sourced and how I approached this project.

Setting up Raspberry Pi with OctoPrint and PiTFT

Brian Fife — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 21:53:57 -0400

There are tons of guides that walk through how to set up a Raspberry Pi. I’ve recently configured multiple devices “from scratch” with OctoPrint and a touchscreen LCD in kiosk mode. Here’s the steps I follow:

"Squished" Prints

Brian Fife — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 23:31:07 -0400

I am in the process of assembling and tuning a new printer. This one has a 14:1 geared stepper driving the z-axis.

I ran into a problem where my prints were looking squished, like so:

The white cube on the right is in the right range, dimensionally (20mm^3 …

Printrbot G2 Board

Brian Fife — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 10:20:58 -0400

You can use the G2 board with legacy Printrbot (or other) printers. In most cases, you won’t have to write code or load new firmware to do this, but it will probably require some configuration to get the board running smoothly. This guide documents the settings you may want to change if you are using the G2 board with a printer other than the Simple Pro. This guide is also useful if you’d like to skip the cloud features of the Printrbot Simple Pro and print directly via USB or with OctoPrint.

Understanding 3D Printing

Brian Fife — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 14:07:22 -0400

This is a discussion of how 3D printers work. This article only covers ‘fused filament’ printers - devices that build a 3D object by melting some kind of plastic filament and depositing layers of this plastic onto a build plate. These layers almost immediately cool and solidify into the printed object.

Direct Printing to Cura with Printrbot Simple Pro

Brian Fife — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:32:21 -0400

[Updated Feb 24th 2019 with minor updates to start gcode]

[Updated Nov 18th 2018 with minor updates to the end gcode]

[Updated Nov 8th 2018 with feedback from Brook Drumm]

You can easily print with Simple Pro from Cura running on your computer. You can also use Octoprint (I do …

48HFP Photos

Brian Fife — Sat, 12 May 2018 15:42:00 -0400

Photos from 2018 Boston 48 Hour Film Project.

Kickoff

A film team

48HFP Photos

Brian Fife — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 21:19:18 -0400

Photos from Boston 48 Hour Film Project 2017.

Charles River Swimming and Diving Team

Royal Society for Putting People on Top of Other People

Extra Medium

The Faithless Electors

Black Chick Watching

Moose Films

Assistant Photographer

Brian Fife — Mon, 16 May 2016 00:04:05 -0400

I had an assistant photographer this year during the 48 Hour Film Project. Not bad work for a rookie.

48HFP Photos

Brian Fife — Mon, 16 May 2016 00:01:32 -0400

Ben and I had another great day visiting teams and taking photos during the Boston 48 Hour Film Project.

48HFP Photos

Brian Fife — Sat, 02 May 2015 10:43:51 -0400

Photos from Boston 48 Hour Film Project 2015. This is the future.

48 Hour Film Project 2015 - Drawing

Genre Drawings and Kickoff from 48 Hour Film Project Boston 2015.

Collective Subconscious

Weekend Warriors

Wax Idiotical

Spacetime

Team Puckerfish

First Riverbed Canvas

Stand Up Mandy

Moose Films

3D Printer

Brian Fife — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 03:31:27 -0500

I picked up a 3D printer at the start of the new year. I had a chance to see all the cool new printers at CES, and after reading good things about the printrbot metal, and realizing they provide a nice upgrade path from the $350 printrbot, I couldn't resist …

NHaD Hiatus

Brian Fife — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 03:31:16 -0500

On January 11th, 2015, Cody escaped from the dungeon. We decided to wrap up this character's story for a few reasons.

First, I have learned a lot over the course of this first run, and would like to work this learning into the site's next delve. This includes underlying improvements …

Jazzercize to Fit

Brian Fife — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:58:08 -0500

OK, admittedly not the best project name for my MHD2014 Boston hack.

I was inspired by the video that broke a few days previously - someone took Taylor Swift's "Shake it Off" and synchronized it to an 80s Aerobic video.

There have been multiple takedown-reposts of the video, so I'm not …

48HFP Photos

Brian Fife — Sat, 03 May 2014 14:33:31 -0400

Photos from 2014 Boston 48 Hour Film Project.

48 Hour Film Project 2014 - Drawing

Fat Foot Films

Infinite Canvas

Michael J Epstein Memorial Library

CS 50

Collective Subconscious

Spacetime

Moose Films

Wax Idiotical

Obnots

NHaD 200 Turns

Brian Fife — Thu, 01 May 2014 15:00:00 -0400

I like to do a project every fall. This year, I tied together a lot of threads I had been thinking about, and with help from Paul and Will, launched the Nethack-a-Day site.

The idea was to take one action or turn a day, and see how things played out …

Snow Day

Brian Fife — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:28:55 -0500

Almost a foot of snow yesterday. I took a time lapse

Music Hack Day Boston Interviews

Brian Fife — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 00:03:14 -0500

This year, Zoe joined me for the first half of Music Hack Day Boston.

We had a lot of fun. One of the things she wanted to do at the event was practice her interviewing skills.

Zoe interviews Echo Nest staff at Music Hack Day Boston

She had a great …

Monospace in iOS Safari

Brian Fife — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 01:55:28 -0500

Back in 2008, Dr. Drang wrote about how Monospace Characters in iOS were not actually monospaced. The situation has improved since then.

Today, drawing the same characters in a <pre> or <code> block works just fine.

Screenshot from iOS 7.0.4 Safari

...with an important exception. Using certain unicode …

Photos from 48 Hour Film Project Boston

Brian Fife — Sat, 04 May 2013 19:56:45 -0400

Photos taken on set with the Boston 48 Hour Film Project teams.

Michael J Epstein Memorial Library, 48HFP 2013

Collective Subconscious

splendiferous

Back Alley Thundergods

Two Bits Productions

Wax Idiotical

1 AAA Actor Team

Robot and the Ready Readies

Obnots

Bird

Brian Fife — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:41:11 -0500

We had an unexpected visitor in our backyard this evening. I was walking out to check the mail and heard a screech and saw the flutter of wings.

I popped inside the house to get Z and we started breaking through the snow in the backyard, looking up in the …

Christmas App

Brian Fife — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:17:36 -0500

Last year, Jim and I used the Rovi Data API to build an app that lists all Christmas albums in the AMG database.

Songs (by frequency on Albums)

I put a fresh coat of paint on the site and re-launched it at christmas.cloudapp.net. The site was only up …

Publishing a Flask App with Azure

Brian Fife — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:38:36 -0500

I've recently given Microsoft's Azure Cloud Framework a try and have written down the steps I followed to successfully deploy a python Flask app on an Azure VM with gunicorn/nginx. Click below to read the full article.

EchoBreakout

Brian Fife — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:44:16 -0500

Music Hack Day Boston 2012 Project with Jim Fingal.

We built a Brick Breaker game that generates a brick pattern from any song. When you break a brick it plays the corresponding portion of the song.

Apologies to anyone who tried to download the file and got a "classic environment …

Tell Me A Story

Brian Fife — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:35:49 -0400

This past weekend I worked with Glenn Axelrod to build a project that prompts storytellers with a randomly-generated story idea, and then allows them to record and upload their story to SoundCloud on a browser running flash.

We had a lot of fun generating the proof-of-concept, particularly the story ideas …

Memorial Day 2012

Brian Fife — Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

A photo taken during Memorial Day in West Concord, MA.

48hr Film Project 2012

Brian Fife — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

I took photos on set with several teams participating in the 48 Hour Film Project on May 12-13th.

Ice House

Brian Fife — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

During New Year 2007-2008 my father-in-law built an ice house in his backyard with help from family and friends. We successfully built a one-room house, and even installed a wood stove.

Tsukiji Market 2007

Brian Fife — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:00:00 -0500

I visited the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market and took some photos. It is generally a good idea to arrive before 5am if you want to see the most activity. I was a bit late, but still managed to catch the tail end of the tuna auction.