Review of Elegoo Mars, a $250 resin 3D printer – check out this review to see how well it works in practice
3D Printer Reviews, Arduino Reviews, Raspberry Pi Reviews, and product information. What should you buy? How do you decide? Where should you look? All this and more in this section ...
Monoprice Ultimate 2 Review
Monoprice Ultimate 2 is a fully-enclosed 3D printer, with auto-level compensation, and filament runout sensor. It has a removable, glass, heated bed, and easily switchable nozzles. Let’s see how it fares in practice …
Monoprice MP Mini SLA 3D Printer Review
I don’t usually post negative reviews. My approach is to first let the company know of any issues I find, and if they can not be resolved, I move on, unless something is particularly dangerous or misleading, or there is a real risk of people being out of pocket. This is the latter. There has […]
Glowforge Review: Review of the Glowforge Laser Cutter
Glowforge Review – Independent review of the Glowforge laser engraver covering the Glowforge Basic and comparing against competing laser cutters
Glowforge Compact Filter Review
Do you want to laser engrave or cut, but don’t like the idea of pumping the smoke out of a window? Or perhaps, like us, you live in a climate not conducive to that? The Glowforge Compact Filter has come in handy during our freezing cold winter days, but it is not entirely good news, […]
Bittboy versus Pocket Sprite
Bittboy or PocketSprite? Which is best? Which should you buy?
Creality Ender 3 3D Printer Kit Review
The Ender 3, as the name suggests, is the improved successor of the Creality Ender 2 3D printer kit, with a larger build area (~220mm+ x 220mm+ x 250), but still with the aluminium extrusion based semi-built-kit construction of the rest of their 3D printer kit line. Back in June I gave my first impressions and since […]
Best K40 Laser Upgrades – Upgrading my Laser Engraver Part 3
I am on a mission to make my Chinese K40 Laser Engraver work like a much more expensive USA name-brand machine. Update to Part 2 – Brain Boosting Previously, I bought and installed a new mainboard of electronics, and a filter for the pungent smoke. I am happy to say, while the filter still feels […]
Upgrading my K40 for quality and abilities!
My K40 laser is the most humble of its kind, having analog dial and controls, and basic optics. Even so, the results are fine. Now my mission is to take this little Chinese laser and bring it up to the 21st Century. 1. Optics The default mirrors and lenses are built to a price point, […]
EZ-Robot IoTiny
While Arduino and Raspberry Pi dominate, there are other boards out there for robot builders. One of the best for rapid robot development is IoTiny from EZ-Robot.