Phase 2 of the wood store complete. It’s looking a bit like a temple at the moment. I was hoping to get the roof on today but last night I fucked my back up. And how did I do this? I bent down to push a button on my dehumidifier. I like getting old, I think I’m a much nicer person than I was 20 years ago, and I know myself much better - but the physical decline that comes with old age is shit. What I wouldn’t give for my 18 year old body with my 60 year old self. #allotment #making #GettingOld
I wrote a blog post about building a small portable apartment scale workbench. Might be of interest to people here.
#making : workmanship; fabrication
- French: Faire
- German: machend
- Italian: facendo, costruzione
- Portuguese: fazendo
- Spanish: haciendo, hechura
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"but I need a car for getting wood from the timber yard..."
Yeah about that.
Did a round trip to the wood merchants. They didn't really have stock the right size for what I need. So I'm gonna need to do some work resawing and planing things to get what I need. But it should work. And yes. If course I took the bike trailer.
Komende vrijdag is in Groningen voor de derde keer de Maker Meetup aan boord van Serendiep.
De opzet is simpel: Heb je iets tofs gemaakt wat je wilt laten zien, een nieuw idee of half-af project waar je feedback of hulp bij zoekt, een epische mislukking die je wilt delen? Vanaf 20:00 staat het podium open voor korte presentaties en demonstraties. Vooraf stoken we de pizza-oven op.
Laat ons graag even weten of je komt via info@kaalstaart.nl
Any other #Bambu #3DPrinter users having issues with new Bambu basic pla filament spools tangling in the first few metres of filament. It's like the filament doesn't unspool properly, and then jams, digging into the rest of the filament on the spool. I've had it happen with several different colours in the last few weeks.
Today was a really good day. I 3d printed some jigs to make this project easier. I did the cuts on the mill. Remade a part on the lathe that I scrapped after getting my centre finding mixed up on the mill. Confirmed my design works using the 3d printed jig. Then used the mill to make some improvements to a previous project (collet chuck). 3d printed a load of parts for a makerspace community project. And started the lathe work on Next Project.
Was a good day.
To test that everything works before I commit to wood. I printed up a test jig. It needed a little refinement to open up the bores (3d printing is not perfect for dimensions, esp of circles). But then. I could test fit everything.
And it works.
It works better than I ever dreamed it would. The bar in the image slides easily, but with just a quarter turn of the bolt. It locks on place. A quarter turn is all it takes. From free moving to locked. Now I need to buy the wood.
And that's all the metal machining for this project done. It works! It bloody well works!!!
Amazingly the jig I made to help manufacturer worked brilliantly. I'm so pleased.
Trying out the Assembly workbench in FreeCAD 1.0 with a very simple example, a simplified model of this little geared motor for the bubble gun project.
Yes, I could have just modelled this as a single solid object, but then the shaft wouldn't rotate!
Intentionally Making Close Friends (2021)
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Currently if I want to print custom cards for an RPG or board game I just use my home printer and a guillotine, and it's slow and inaccurate.
Is there a way to automate this process short of getting a full die-cutting machine (like a cricut)? It seems like overkill just to cut out rectangles of paper.
It might be Cardboard Aided Design #CAD I am undertaking, but I'm using my @FreeCAD pencil and a protractor I drew myself in @inkscape and lasercut so I still get tech points! #making #opensource
After I finished work on my primary project yesterday afternoon, I had a bit of time left until the 3d print finished. So I decided to have a play with my new self made sensitive drilling attachment.
Aim was to drill a 0.5mm hole in some brass.
I achieved that with minimal breakage. I've just had a chance to test the hole with gauge pins.
500µm pin fits.
600µm doesn't git.
I'm considering that a big win.
Made bias tape for the first time (on the straight because will be using it on a single non-curving edge) and .. it was ok?
Less difficult than I imagined but also more boring?
Every time I use the iron for sewing I forget that 'pressing' is not 'ironing'.
Image: 2 strips of cream coloured bias tape with folded sides down, on a green cutting mat with centimeter number markings.
Metal Bias tape maker with number 18 is alongside strips.
Project #minirack is done :)
The goal was to have a nice "living room capable" 10" rack to hold my #homeasssitant box with a touch display for smart home control, a network switch and a UPS.
And no it is not living in the livingroom now, nor was it planned ;) I could have moved the network wiring to the back/inside, but in the end it needed a little nerd factor.
Mostly made from laser cut plywood in #kumiko pattern that I spray painted black, and some 3D printed parts. All self designed/built except for the metal rails in the corners.
And did I mention it's ALL powered by USB-C PD internally? 
