Built an over complicated marking gauge!
#MadeWithFreeCAD using @freecad.org at #makersasylum

Circular disk edge, nail & pencil. Another nail allows it to be used as a compass. Wooden rod machined on the wood lathe. Protective covers = flex TPU. Pencil holder & sleeve = PETG.

MASH aka Maker's Asylum System of Hacking Live #CAD session

Learn hands-on!
Take the @freecad.org Challenge!
Design something useful - phone stand, pen holder & show it off live!

17th Oct, 7:30 to 9:00 pm (IST India)
Get access to our LMS & CAD Course

Register here:
airtable.com/appLMGtTv9VX...

#FreeCAD Project Association (FPA) has announced a pilot bugfix rewards program. Fixing five bugs will earn you €250.

Learn more about the FreeCAD bugfix bounty program: blog.freecad.org/2025/08/14/p...

#OpenSource #development #software #bug

We cannot believe it's so close but in just ONE WEEK the 2025 Open Hardware Summit will commence!!! We are so excited to spend two days embedded in a beautiful gathering of open source hardware creators, and learning all kinds of new ways to utilize oshw! See you soon

FreeCAD 1.0.1 released We've just released FreeCAD 1.0.1. There are no new features in this version. The 176 commits that we backported from the main development branch are fixes for various issues identified in the stab…

FreeCAD 1.0.1 is out now - get the bugfix release blog.freecad.org/2025/05/16/f...

#3Dprinted doodad at #makersasylum for holding whiteboard markers at a more ergonomic angle without drying out the inktip. Prolly needs a few tweaks and iterations. The springy bits to hold the pen and marker are not as springy in PLA. Maybe I need to try TPU.
Designed in @freecadnews.bsky.social

Short, early morning ride to Olaulim.

The #makersasylum #AMS for the @bambulabglobal.bsky.social #P1S 3d printer had a broken off piece of filament that clogged up the delivery tube. Just 2 screws to disassemble the unit & clear the offending piece. Pretty nice, clean design.

We are so excited to announce that with UID GT000019 Shield Fit24 we have officially hit 3,000 certified open source hardware projects in the database! Thank you so much to every single person who has taken the time to certify their work and make this database such a success.

Indeed - temps are between 85 F and 95 F, but it's the killer >80% humidity that's makes it uncomfortable.

My favourite bike, at my favourite #makerspace
#makersasylum
#ridley #Crosswind

Teardown of a Scam Ultrasonic Cleaner Everyone knows that ultrasonic cleaners are great, but not every device that’s marketed as an ultrasonic cleaner is necessarily such a device. In a recent video on the Cheap & Cheerful …read more

Teardown of a Scam Ultrasonic Cleaner

Working on a simple, low cost badge for makerville.io for the next IRL conference sometime soon.
Designed using @kicad.org and @freecad.bsky.social

Clock Mechanism Goes Crazy for Arduino Hackaday Article

Clock Mechanism Goes Crazy for Arduino

hackaday.com/2025/03/09/clock-mechani...

IEC60038 codifies the various voltage classification levels - so that should prolly settle it.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60038

Reasonable answers are "it depends" and "it's relative"

A Ten Band SDR Transceiver For Homebrewers Hackaday Article

A Ten Band SDR Transceiver For Homebrewers

hackaday.com/2025/02/26/a-ten-band-sd...

Thomas Hull shows how to fold and assemble the FIT.

origametry.net/fit.html

Hackaday Links: February 23, 2025 Ho-hum — another week, another high-profile bricking. In a move anyone could see coming, Humane has announced that their pricey AI Pin widgets will cease to work in any meaningful …read more

Hackaday Links: February 23, 2025

NEMA Releases Standard for Vehicle-to-Grid Applications Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) has been hailed as one of the greatest advantages of electrifying transportation, but has so far remained mostly in the lab. Hoping to move things forward, the National …read more

NEMA Releases Standard for Vehicle-to-Grid Applications

Questionable Use Case #4: PCBs as Art! 🎨 Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) reimagined as functional (or not actually functional) art!

Circuit boards as art: www.techadjacent.io/p/pcb-art-pr... (thx everyone for the awesome suggestions) h/t @anool.bsky.social @evilgeniuslabs.org @m-derrenbacher.bsky.social et al! 🎨

Thanks for the shoutout, @jeremycook.bsky.social !!

My Origami version of the FIT ! :)

Hackaday Podcast Episode 306: Bambu Hacks, AI Strikes Back, John Deere Gets Sued, and All About Capacitors Hackaday Article

Hackaday Podcast Episode 306: Bambu Hacks, AI Strikes Back, John Deere Gets Sued, and All About Capacitors

hackaday.com/2025/01/31/hackaday-podc...

GitHub - WurthElektronik/KiCad-Library: WurthElektronik_KiCad-Library WurthElektronik_KiCad-Library. Contribute to WurthElektronik/KiCad-Library development by creating an account on GitHub.

Würth Elektronik has released @kicad.org files for some of their components including symbols, footprints, and 3D models.

They're licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, but your design is not required to be shared under that or any other license if you're using them.

github.com/WurthElektro...

I started creating a wiki for repair-friendly hardware products for Indian consumers: nilesh.gitbook.io/openhardware...

#RightToRepair #India #hardware #OpenSource

Electric Vehicle Charging Heats Up As the electric vehicle takeover slowly lumbers along, marginally increasing efficiencies for certain applications while entrenching car-centric urban design even further, there are some knock-on effects that are benefiting people …read more

Electric Vehicle Charging Heats Up

www.kicad.org/blog/2025/01...

Stylized circuit board, showing a blue "K" with a DIP12 next to it that resembles the Ki from the KiCad logo. The dot for the "i" is drawn as a gold bodge wire shaped into the number 9

What's this? Oh, nothing much. Just KICAD VERSION 9RC2 dropped! We are only a couple weeks away from the final release. Test out the nightly builds now and see if you can find any showstoppers that we can fix before that happens.

forum.kicad.info/t/stable-ver...