I’ve been working on some rolling pantry shelves to fit a spot that was designed for the fridge. I had built some pantry shelves there a while ago, and it was time to try something different. This solves the issue of the little kids digging through the pantry and making a mess of things (like …
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I recently picked up a Seek Thermal camera which plugs into my cell phone and allows…
I recently picked up a Seek Thermal camera which plugs into my cell phone and allows me to see temperatures of stuff. It's a cheap unit, so it doesn't have the built in calibration tables that the expensive 'real' test equipment has. But it's good enough for most people's needs in a non-technical use. I …
I tried using my laser engraver to strip paint and mark the metal.
The paint stripping worked remarkably well. I also tried using some dry moly lube as an engraving agent. This also works well. The laser can't touch metal, the metal acts like a mirror unless much more powerful than I have. In album 1/22/17 Using the laser to strip paint. One pass doesn’t do a …
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I wrote a bit of OpenScad to laser cut a leather pen case
https://github.com/creuzerm/openscad-projects/tree/master/laserable/Pen%20Case I cut it and am looking at it and while it looks good, I think it is flawed. The little round holes for stitching are easy to tell a robot to make. However, I am thinking that they actually overly weaken the seam. I didn't look for the wisdom in the old fashioned hand …
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Years ago I had dubbed my rubber mallet "sudo !!"
I've acquired more hammers since, and very recently a laser cutter. So I've engraved "sudo !!" on my newer rubber mallet that my kids gave me. I also named a small machinist hammer "Subtle Persuasion". Totally loving the ability to permanently label my stuff with such ease that I don't have time to consider if …
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