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AS5600 enclosure

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    Recently I've bought 4 pieces of AS5600 "12-Bit Programmable Contactless Potentiometer" as it is defined by AMS in their corresponding datasheet . It's a cute magnetic encoder soldered on a small footprint PCB and it's pretty affordable, costing just 1.57 Euros per unit, as you can see on Aliexpress listing .    The reason for the purchasing was to give a try to this kind of encoders that can offer an angle reading of 0.0878... degrees or 360 degrees divided by 4096 readings. Cool, huh? And it's an absolute encoder, meaning that it's keeping the reading even after a power cycle (on-off-on). Getting back to the item received from Aliexpress, the package contained the PCB with the actual encoder soldered, a cylindrical magnet and a 7 pins header for connection. After soldering the pins on the PCB and powering this baby up using an Arduino Uno programmed with the example sketches found in the library , I realized that t...
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Spaceman riding a rocket - desk lamp

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Hey guys. So, think about this: the birthday of one good friend it's close by and you have to find a cool, original idea to make a present and that present should not be bought from China (if it's on a chinese website, it's not original for sure 😆). Having a 3D printer and a small CNC machine at home, makes the job easier, but the most important aspect of manufacturing something cool, it's the idea. Our friend is a geek, passionate about space stuff and everything SF related, so the google search tags for an idea were like "rocket","astronaut","space". After a bit of research I've found this nice SVG kit on Etsy  , purchased it and started the design in Fusion360. The idea was to make a desk lamp that has an astronaut riding a rocket engraved by the 3018CNC on a Polycarbonate(PC) sheet, then make a contour cutting by the same machine. This was my first serious CNC challenge since I've started playing with the CNC machine, this year...
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