CementTruck

Twiddling my thumbs waiting for my Tarantula to arrive from China. I'm a 3D printer noob.After months of lurking on sites, reading up on low cost printer specs and scouring youtube I selected the Tarantula. Looking forward to its arrival.

This looks very reminiscent of the home built scooters that used to race around our neighborhood in the Philippines. Their wheels were old ball bearings.

My initial idea is to get a gender-bender (little plastic phone line connector part with a female RJ11 jack on each end), bust it open and solder 2 wires to the internal wires and connect it to a bright LED. If the LED proves to be too much of a draw for the headset to work then plan B would be to use an external power supply and use the headset power to trigger the light to turn on/blink. A Schmitt trigger/OP Amp could work (maybe) as the switching mechanism. I have a background in low voltage electrical, but that was 20 yrs. ago, and I barely remember what I had for lunch yesterday (pretty sure it was chicken salad).

I would really hate to waste a mini Arduino on each instance of this device I build.

silly question. everyone knows cows don't use brakes...they use the horn. ;)

Very nice. You could also zip tie the trigger switch on and plug the bandsaw to a cheap power strip with a toggle switch.

cm?! Umm captain "AMERICA"!!! Shouldn't have done this project in metric. Sacrilege. ;)Just kidding. Awesome build. Good luck on the props contest.