Output devices

Drive the world.


Make an output board that will be useful in my Fablab.

How output?

This is a fine week, will be the opening of my Fablab at Penela. But in this sense of output i decided to rebuild an old board from my Fablab. I do it because this our’s ways to fabricate boards it’s awesome easy and powerfull.

board antiga nossa senhora

This old board, made in proto board, have a 3 hours of production time for each board. I expect that with Fablab way i could produce it in about 30 minutes, with no error’s.

Output a Crib.

This board is made for connect an Raspberry to a arduino pro mini and from them to 6 servo motor’s.

That servo motor’s control animated figures in a Christmas Crib. That Crib have: - 100 figure’s. - 40.000 visitor’s. - All figures are 3D printed. - All have been produced in 2 months time. - The exposition have been open for one month.

And all of this with no open Fablab. :)

New board, new challenge’s

First challenge is to rebuild an Arduino, but with the possibility in use it as controller board.

So i go find the Fabkit from satshakit :)

I name it RaspFabDriverServo.

In that board i have an logic level bidirectional from Sparkfun design. I use it to the Raspberry could program the Arduino. :)

level shifter

fabkit servo

fabkit servo board

Whoooo a new board

But… wait i not gone do an arduino fabkit. I will do an fabkit shield. Great :)

I must do all my design again, but no worries, it’s the best so it’s cool :)

Work in progress.


Here is the link to this week files. :)