I know, I know. It has been a long time since I wrote a post on the website. Last year I overhauled my personal website and turned it into a website that is more detached from my personal work in hopes that I could have some good friends also contribute with content that could help […]
Da Vinci Jr. MKS GEN L/Orange Pi Zero Electronics Conversion
In my previous post, I showed off one of my latest acquisitions, which is a Da Vinci JR 3D printer. I purchased this 3D printer as broken, sold for parts. The main issue with this machine was a broken part in the Y carriage, which will not allow the machine to home the axis at […]
Fixing a da Vinci Jr. 1.0 with a Broken Y Axis
Not long ago, I purchased a da Vinci Jr. 1.0 3D printer from ebay. This printer was being advertised as “For Parts Only” with no real description as to what was damaged on the printer. I decided to purchase it in order to take a shot at fixing it. I purchased it for about $110 […]
uBitx: Modifications and Custom Designs
A while back, during my Amateur Radio craze, I decided to purchase a low cost, DIY QRP HF Transceiver from India. This is the uBitx. This transceiver is a fairly good option for operators who have experience building kits, and also want to get into the world of HF operation or just want another rig […]
Multi-meter Component Measurement Jig
Hello guys and welcome back. In today’s post I would like to show you one of my newest designs, which is a jig for measuring the component values with multi-meters. I built this jig in order to simplify the way in which one can measure the value of unknown resistors (or at least resistors which […]
Tiny Slammer! Overview, Assembly and Test!
Hey, what is going on my beautiful, nice, and smart readers. I am quite sorry that I have not been posting as often as I would like to lately. My last post was in January, and ever since then I have not done much with the website. I will have a general update in regards […]
DIY Fixed & Variable Power Supply
Hello everyone, today I want to share with you guys a project which happened a long time ago (Summer of 2017) and which I was unable to share it back then because of lack of time to write about it. The project which I am referring to is my DIY power supply. I made this […]
The Resonante CNC Machine and Home PCB Manufacturing
Hello everyone. If you’re reading this post recently after being posted, I would like to wish you a very happy festivities period, as well as a New Year 2018. This year has been a very productive and interesting year for The Tinkering Corner, we (As in myself) have meet a ton of people from the […]
How to Install Samba & Plex Media Server on Ubuntu 16.04
Introduction In this tutorial I will be showing you how you can install and configure Samba and Plex Media Server in your Ubuntu 16.04 server (or desktop). This tutorial is a continuation of the video tutorials previously produced by myself where I showed you how to install Ubuntu Server on an older computer (Videos: Part […]
Optimized Marlin Firmware For The FolgerTech FT-5 R2
Hello everyone! So, yes, as you might have assumed from the tittle, I have a new FolgerTech FT-5 R2. This 3D printer is the new version of their FT-5 lineup, It is almost the same but with some needed upgrades (I will be making a whole post about my experiences and what I think of […]