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Bowling pajama micarta

my bowling pajamas I had a pair of bowling pajamas that were beloved to me. This is me the morning of my Google interview. I wore this to the interview, and yes I got the offer. I left the ball at home. Well pajamas finally had too many holes in them. They would rip when…… Continue reading Bowling pajama micarta

First tig welding

A work friend showed me the basics of tig welding. It is really difficult and I enjoyed it a lot. It’s a bit like soldering but much harder. I hope to learn this skill in the future for reals. My wife suggests that I don’t add a welder to the garage shop.

3d printed pencil holders

I printed some hex-grid pencil holders to challenge myself in CAD. I got it done but I still don’t know of a great way to model these. The end result hot off the printer

First epoxy project

Inspired by the famous Peter Brown of youtube, I decided to do an epoxy project. I would cast a dandelion. It didn’t go very well. I initially seemed to be off to a good start But the next morning I came back to see that the cup had melted The color was still beautiful though,…… Continue reading First epoxy project

SLA printing

I’ve been doing some resin printing over the last year. Here are some examples

Sculptures

I’ve been doing a series of sculptures. Originally the motivation was to build a webcam holder so that I could monitor 3d prints: The original one The second one was more organic and had mostly parametric features with one sculpted feature: The next one was almost fully sculpted. A mechanical engineer at work asked if…… Continue reading Sculptures

Garage workbench

After binge-watching Steve Ramsay I decided that building a workbench was within my ability. First the trip to home depot. The Prius can hold more than I expected. All I had to work with was my parent’s circular saw and a saw horse. Here’s an example of learning how that works: I got it framed…… Continue reading Garage workbench

Electronic music

During quarantine I was messing around with Ableton Live, mainly interested by youtubers like Andrew Wong. Eventually I got a small and cheap midi keyboard that came with Ableton Live Lite. After messing around for a while I decided to get a used Akai MPK261 off of ebay. The MPK261 is a 61-key midi keyboard…… Continue reading Electronic music

Extruder windmill

I made my own extruder windmill based on this post from Prusa I modeled it in Fusion 360 and printed on a Prusa Mk3s

Multi-material printing

I helped put together the MMU2s for the work printer. It is very painful and flaky and I wasn’t able to get consistent results. The dream is noble but hobby-level tech is not there yet. The Prusa XL printer is supposed to have multiple print heads via a toolchanger, maybe that will advance the tech.…… Continue reading Multi-material printing