Sep 04
I wanted to say hello from the development team. Robert Douglas and I, Brendan Ebers, have been working really hard this past month on the Gado codebase in preparation for sending out our first Gado 2 kits. It’s really exciting to see how far this project has come along, and we’d like to do a …
Sep 13
Before today, one of the few Gado 2 parts which remained to be designed and laser cut was the cradle which will hold images for the machine to scan. In the original machine, this was just a dumb box; photos sat in it, and the machine grabbed them. In the Gado 2, however, the cradle …
Aug 19
The Bill of Materials (BOM) for the Gado 2 main board, revision 0.1 is ready to go! A BOM lists all the components in a device, and provides info like where on the PCB each component goes, where the component can be purchased, price data, etc. With this and the Eagle files I posted before, …
Aug 10
In the spirit of open-source, I’m trying to make it as easy as possible for other people to use and expand on my design for the Gado 2. As such, I’ve released the schematics and Eagle files for the first revision of the machine’s main control board. To make things even easier, here is a …
Jul 12
If you’ve been following along, you know by now that the Gado 2 is going to consist of a lasercut arm mounted to a swiveling pan bracket, with a suction lifter mounted at the end. You also know from my previous post that there’s going to be a photoresistor (to measure light) in the lifter, …
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