Up Comming Projects

For the past few months, I've been busy with a few things, school being an important one. But it's time I update my site with a bit new news.

I've got a few projects planned that I'm hoping to have done this year.

First off is a Furby hack. I've been given an older Furby and the first thing I did was took its skin off looked at its inner workings. I've Googled around a bit and found plenty of information on the circuitry and how it works which then gave me an idea of what I could do to it.

I'm going to replace his micro-controller with a PIC micro-controller and interface him with my computer (USB or RS232) and have him announce any new emails, new weather updates or important events.

This is going to be my first fully documented project and completely open-source so you guys can get a taste of it too.

My next project will hopefully be a 3D printer... Yes you heard me right. a 3 dimensional ink jet printer.

I'm aware that there are other 3D printers out there already being used by many hobbyists such as Rep-Rap and Fab @ Home. This one is different, instead of extruding molten plastic layer upon layer, this spreads out a very thin layer of powder for each layer then the print head goes over each layer and prints a image causing the powder to stick together.

After the process has been done, the fragile 3D model is extracted and finished with a epoxy to make the model solid and usable for everyday tasks.

Thanks for reading and please comment!!! :P

Cheers
Roman