Below are a few pictures from a blog post that was made by ijduncan and published on steemit. You can find the original post here: https://steemit.com/gaming/@ijduncan/very-gaming-machine-or-miner-made-with-makerbeam-xl
Low profile PCB vise that adjusts quickly and also holds components and probes, freeing your hands while you work
Check the video below or the Kickstarter website for this project.
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Peter made a Fischer Technik Unimog U400 strengthened with OpenBeam. Below you can see some pictures of Peter’s creation. On the blog of the Fischer Technik community you find more pictures and more info.
Here is the link: https://www.ftcommunity.de/categories.php?cat_id=3266&page=2
We share an office space with our colleagues from Wandy. One of them has two laptops but when in the office he wants to enjoy big screens. He wanted to place these screens higher than the added normal stands could provide. To optimise his workstation he turned to OpenBeam and created one computerstand to hold the two flatscreens. Here are some pictures.
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A great project: a Liebherr crane made of Fischer Technik with OpenBeam used as reinforcement.
Peter Damen makes great items with Fischer Technik. Since he has known OpenBeam he uses OpenBeam to reinforce his projects. With this Liebherr crane he did the same. You can see where he used OpenBeam in these pictures below.
Clear OpenBeam for the longer lengths in the crane itself and pieces of black OpenBeam in the base.
You can read more about it and see more pictures on the fischer technik community website. Here is a link to Peter his project listed there.
Team MakerBeam
Joel sent us pictures of his OpenBeam project to make VJ-ing more relaxed. He built a structure that raised his equipment to an easy height.
Hi MakerBeam team 🙂
I’d like to share with you some pictures of my project with OpenBeam.
It’s a structure to support my macbook pro, below a external hard disk and in front my midi controller
Very Very useful when I’m doing VJ’ing in a party to protect the material from spilling drinks and backache 😉
Cheers
Joel
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Unfortunately we discovered some 1000mm OpenBeam that have distorted ends. The tips were squeezed together as if they were handled by strong pliers on that end. Leaving the tips twisted and the holes oval instead of round.
We quickly inspected some packs and indeed found other beams that were distorted this way. This inspection also gave us the insight that it was a production failure rather than us packing the beams the wrong way. There were packs with distorted and non-distorted beams wrapped together. These tips should have been cut off in the production process.
Upon a closer inspection we have come to the conclusion that the distortion appears almost exclusively in the longer lengths OpenBeam. This means the beams of 600mm, 750mm, 1000mm and 2000mm.
Last week we sent an email out to the OpenBeam customers who possibly have bought affected beams from this batch. This way we can work out some form of compensation for these customers or simply replace the affected beams with good beams.
We are very sorry for this to happen. Naturally we are in contact with out manufacturer as to make sure this does not happen again.
Team MakerBeam
OpenBeam stock arrived at the MakerBeam warehouse, all items have been added to the makerbeam website, pricing is in place …… we are ready to sell OpenBeam!
OpenBeamUSA and MakerBeam.eu joined forces. We are happy to tell MakerBeam.eu is now lead importer of OpenBeam in Europe!
It is great to have this addition to our product range. More information about OpenBeam and MakerBeam you’ll find in the blog we published: MakerBeam.eu and OpenBeamUSA.com
From today on OpenBeam can be ordered in our webshop www. makerbeam.eu.
Our current OpenBeam product range is as follows:
> Precut kits:
black and clear anodised. Lengths in kit in mm: 300, 270, 210, 150, 120, 90, 60, 45, 30. In the kit we also sell L-brackets, T-brackets, OB feet, hexagon head screws, button head socket screws, hex nut driver, hex key driver and nuts.
> Beams:
– Precut extrusions, black and clear anodised in different lengths in mm: 1000, 300, 270, 210, 150, 120, 90, 60, 45, 30. Only the 1000mm length beams we sell as a single item. All other lenghts are sold in packs of 4.
– Precut extrusions for Mendel, black anodised (in mm: 390, 300, 450, 240).
– Precut extrusions for MiniKossel, black anodised (in mm: 600, 240).
> Brackets:
L-brackets, T-brackets, Hitec Servo mount, NEMA 17 Stepper Motor, Shaft clamp kit, 608 Bearing to NEMA 17 adapter
> Nuts & bolts:
Screw button head socket cap M3 6mm, Hexagon Head bolts M3 6mm, M3 nuts
> Accessories:
OB feet, M3 hex nut driver, M3 hex key driver, M3 allen key
Soon we will have Kossel en Mendel kits available as well.
Both MakerBeam and OpenBeam are anodised aluminum extrusions with a diameter of under 20mm available in black or clear. Great for desktop projects.
OpenBeam does not need special screws which is an advantage. The screws are a bit small in comparision to the size of the profile though. The surface area of the cross-section of OpenBeam is more than double this surface area of MakerBeam.
Size makes OpenBeam more suited for bigger projects and MakerBeam for smaller projects. The stainless brackets of MakerBeam seem to be more robust than the plastic ones of OpenBeam at first glance. The OpenBeam brackets are injection molded out of EMS Grivory GVX, a high-performance, high glass fiber reinforced polyamide copolymer that is engineered for metal replacement applications.
Why choose the one over the other? Your choice will depend on personal preferences and on what you plan to build. What do you think your project needs?
| OpenBeam | MakerBeam | |
| Diameter | 15x15mm | 10x10mm |
| Surface | With edges | Smooth |
| Bracket material | Polyamide copolymer | Stainless steel |
| Bolts and nuts size | M3, standard | M3, custom made |
| Bolts and nuts material | Stainless steel | Stainless steel |
The two profiles are different, but comparable and in the near future there will be more and more compatible products. For now enjoy our new product range. We as a team are looking forward to see what projects you make with OpenBeam, MakerBeam or a combination of both!
Team MakerBeam.eu
This summer we will start the sale of OpenBeam. We expect stock coming in a few weeks from now. Because of this we started the preparation for the arrival of stock. In our office we are working on freeing storage space, see picture below.
Secondly we started to enter the OpenBeam products that will be available in our shop system. That is why when you search for OpenBeam you can find the products. Please do not order OpenBeam. We will not take backorders. The best we can do is register your email and send you a message once we have stock available. WE DO NOT SELL OPENBEAM YET!!!
Last but not least a big step was made recently. The website OpenBeam.eu now refers to makerbeam.eu. In time we will welcome you to MakerBeam.eu and OpenBeam.eu
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