John Abella

A Pictorial History of My Cars

John — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:33:11 +0000

Just something I put together after trying to gather photos of all of my cars over the years: A Pictorial History of My Cars (So Far).

Maker Faire NYC

John — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:43:36 +0000

It’s that time of year again! This weekend (9/17-18) is Maker Faire New York. I’m running the 3D Printer Village areas, and will be around the show all weekend. Stop in and find me.

I made the NY Times

John — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:09:53 +0000

At a recent MakerBot meetup, I was interviewed by the NY Times about MakerBots and the enthusiasm for the hobbyist 3D Printing market. The article made the front page of NYTimes.com. The article is available here.

MakerBot Blog Interview

John — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:59:55 +0000

I’m on the MakerBot Blog today as part of the “We <3 The MakerBot Operators” feature. We talked about Maker Faire, 3D Printing, Open Hardware, and all sorts of things.

MakerFaire NYC

John — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:56:51 +0000

I’m organizing the 3D Printer Village at MakerFaire NYC on September 25th and 26th, 2010. Stop by and see what we’re working on! We should have some MakerBot, Mendels, and who knows what else. I’ll post more details when we get them.

Making iPhone Stands

John — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:58:10 +0000

Small writeup of making an iPhone stand from scratch. Starting in SketchUp, printing prototypes, revising, and finally printing at home on my MakerBot.

Mapping Main Street

John — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:18:03 +0000

Some of my photos were used in the short film “Main Street Port Jefferson” – part of the NPR Mapping Main Street project. The film was put together by Mark Sternberg, Adam Gismondi, Ryan Hodum, and Luke Ceo, and includes some of my photos from the 2009 Charles Dickens Festival in Port Jefferson.

MakerBot

John — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:56:56 +0000

Last week I got a MakerBot and we’ve been playing with it for a few days now. I’ve started writing up the build process on the new Projects page. I’ll be detailing more of the printing progress as well as tuning and modifications at this same location going forward.

I’ve also written up some pages on printing RepRap Mendel parts, our MakerBot Heated Build Platform, and other modifications on the Projects page.

Photos from Space

John — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:10:26 +0000

Today Amy and I went out with the Island Labs crew to launch a weather balloon into the stratosphere. The launch was from Roscoe, NY, and the landing was in Patterson, NY. Photos from the on-board camera are here. Photos from behind the scenes of how we did the launch are on my Flickr here. We successfully launched, tracked, and recovered a balloon that went over 90,000 feet high, and traveled almost 80 miles downrange.

Website Updates

John — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:38:28 +0000

I’ve been using WordPress for about six months now, and have had decent luck with it so far. I’d been using a heavily modified version of the Deep Blue theme, but decided to move to a new design. I’m now using the Neutica+ setup (which runs on Thematic) from Allan Cole. I’m still working out some bugs.