Sometimes, the YouTube algorithm just hits the right nerve. By recommending me Steven Bennett’s DIYson project, it absolutely did. Steven is building a DIY version of the Dyson Solarcycle — a fancy desk lamp that I find aesthetically pleasing. I’ve been following his project for the past year, but never quite committed to building one myself. That changed after I visited a friend’s office and saw the Dyson lamp in person. I knew I wanted one. ...
Intro I’m currently building a 3D-printed lifesize MrBaddeley R2D2, a project I inted to share more about in the future. The brains of these printed droids are historically a bunch of Arduinos with serial communications between various modules from various people. When researching which modules should power my droid, I came across the Next Gen Astromech, which aims to minimize the wiring between the modules leveraging a CAN-Bus. I bought a AstroCAN ProDuo board, which functions as the brain of the droid, running ShadowMD on an Arduino Mega 2560 and interfacing with the CAN-world on an ESP32 Dev Board. ...