In this post you will find a link to technical drawings of MakerBeam and a number of brackets. A pdf with information on stiffness of the hollow core MakerBeam is also there.
It is hard to offer customers custom lengths of MakerBeam and OpenBeam. For commercial purposes the beams need to be cut smooth and with high precision. Equipment is expensive. So is having the cutting done by another company. It also adds shipping cost.
With this project, Circular Knitic, the aim is to integrate textile fabrication to the makers' culture.
Circular Knitic is completely open source and open design circular knitting machine that is produced by using digital fabrication tools, and thus, allows to be replicated by everyone, who has access to a 3d printing and laser cutting. By using digital fabrication and makers’ tools, like 3D printing, laser cutting, makerbeam, and Arduino, we have designed an automated and replicable circular knitting machine.
You can move video and photo-cameras on a slider to make attractive recordings. Moving time-lapse recordings with a DSLR or arbitrary video-camera movements are the main applications of the kit. The kit can also be used for completely different purposes where linear motion is needed (see end of the video below).
From one of our customers we received a video from the news item wherein he is featured. Benoit Pereira da Silva is an advocate of walking working. He uses MakerBeam to make a lightweight frame to carry his equipment round so he can work outdoors.