My lockdown office has a door to the deck which I like to leave open when the weather’s nice. The doors were banging around in the wind, and since you can’t get doorstops or toiletpaper during lockdown I made my own. They work OK.
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French cleats
I added French Cleats to the garage shop. It was a bit of a pain to get them level and spaced regularly, but I built some spaces that worked ok. right after installing My original plan was to hang up a bunch of tools and look really cool. Here’s a start: Eventually I gave up…… Continue reading French cleats
mini paint holder
This was purely a CAD challenge to myself. It is an efficient way to store paint, but not an efficient use of time.
Arsch mit ohren
There is a German expression “Arsh mit Ohren” which means “ass with ears”. I suppose it roughtly maps to “butthead”. Anyways I got my hands on a 3d printer for the first time and for some reason decided that this was the thing to print. I found the model on Thingiverse. I left these on…… Continue reading Arsch mit ohren
AT-AT
Simple build of a bandai AT-AT. Haven’t painted it.
Succulent camo dinosaur
I’m really proud of this airbrush project. First time using masking (for the stripes) Right after airbrushing The results in the garden Rough draft: an early prototype
Snowspeeder
I assembled and painted the a snowspeeder model from Bandai. assembly after paint close ups this was a pain in the butt final display here it is in its position of honor next to my signed dragonforce album
Miniature painting
did some mini-painting!
fun with the focused ion beam
Last Wednesday I went to Accurel with Ned and Max. The LSTFE2 chip is having power-cycling issues so we did some surgery with the focused ion beam. Fang Wu, the FIB operation manger at Accurel, was very skilled and experienced. Here is Fang and Max prepping the board: This is part of the FIB machine.…… Continue reading fun with the focused ion beam
SLUGS background
For the past year I\’ve been working on a UAV called SLUGS (the Santa Cruz Low-cost UAV GNC System) in the Autonomous Systems Lab at UCSC. I\’m working with Mariano Lizarraga, and we are both being advised by Gabriel Elkaim. I designed an autopilot board: and my senior thesis was designing a Kalman filter for…… Continue reading SLUGS background
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