This post is sort of out of chronological order.
This is a test that I will remove
This post is sort of out of chronological order.
This is a test that I will remove
It was the first day of class. I broght a pad of paper, pen, pencil and my laptop. 2-1/2 hours into a 3 hour class, and my battery conks. This is a CAD capable machine with a monsterous GPU, and appearently it was hungry for juice.
I knew that the machine was overkill, but I really thought I would have 3 hours of charge in the battery.
So I am changing direction.
I have a lousy windows minimal machine, loaded it it with what I needed bare minimum, deleted the bloatware, and it was still non stellar.
So I dumped $140 into a chromebook (minus store credit and I was out of pocket for about $30)
I have a few little utilities on it, a browser, and that is it, and I love it.
And it gets at least 5 hours on a charge.
Suck it windows
Having fun with the Dino noir series. Wish I had a proper studio.
Well,
Holography has come a long way. I just took the plunge and bought a kit that requires no chemicals to process.
I will let you know how it turns out.
Been a few years since I shot film. Shot some this weekend, and I will be processing it in the lab today. May even make some prints, certainly will make some scans.
The space behind the lens is actually a miniature representation of the space in front of the lens.
This space is 3 dimensional, just like the space in front of the lens.
It isn’t until you add some sort of sensor that you flatten the area behind the lens into a flat image.
Just sayin’
On to the nitty gritty.
Bought servo linkages, now to model them and place them in a rational way.
working on cosmetics
Today:
I figured out how to affix the outer and inner halves together.
Started swapping threaded holes for threaded inserts
Next:
Buy actual linkages and adapt models to work with them.
Ding, $215 worth of plastic.
this meshes with my budget.
woot
Wee!
My first blunder.
0.040″ is too thin of a wall. In my world, I do a lot of 0.040″ thick walls–in aluminum–in parts that are 1/4 an inch big. I found some old shapeways parts and the thin walls are “squishy”
If I thicken the walls, I won’t be able to afford it, or won’t be able to over a short period of time.
If I build as is, it won’t work.
Thinking making a honeycomb like wall. A lot of work.
Thinking of making some sample wall sections using different design techniques and see which is stiffest.
What I do have going for me is that the majority of the internals are 0.080″, which I believe to be thick enough. With enough ribbing, the outer sections should be fine as well.