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Time = Computers
An old saying, credited to Paul Erdős, is that “a mathematician is a machine that turns coffee into theorems.” Although I have heard other people being credited with it as well. One of the well-known versions of this is that … Continue reading
New Towers falling over
The benefit of being far away is that one received wonderful emails about what is going on back at home: — Der Drucker druckt wieder. CM hat gestern den Y-Riehmen gewechselt und sich wieder über den Konstrukteur geärgert. Ich hab … Continue reading
Modern tools for old crafts
Build for today is a tool that is rarely seen: a netting needle. A special device for holding a longer length of twine on a bobbin/shuttle type device for making nets by hand. This is an improvement upon an older … Continue reading
Voronoi code
A small update to yesterday’s post: We are using pcb2gcode instead of visolate, which was giving offset problems between the copper traces and the drillholes. pcb2gcode does it in one go, while visolate seems to need an extra step. As … Continue reading
PCB aesthetics
I think this proves beyond all doubt (was there ever any doubt?) that I am overgeeked. CH sent me some images the other day while I was in foreign lands showing some PCBs he had made. YOWZA! What I really … Continue reading
‘aesen, ‘aesen, ‘aesen!
CM is getting excited. Like all fathers he is becoming his child. “Essen essen essen” (“food food food”) seems to be his son’s favourite occupation this week, so CM’s response as he arrives in the workshop is “Fraesen, fraesen, fraesen!” … Continue reading
configuration configuration configuration . . . . . . .
Sunday. Rainy Linz weather. Summer was a Tuesday. Now it will be like this until a pseudo “Indian summer” or Altweiber (old lady) Sommer in October. But do we care? No! We have about three dozen Skeinforge parameters to tweak … Continue reading
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The wonders of heat
As winter begins to descend upon us, not only do we suffer but so does the printing process. I am not yet sure exactly what causes the deformation of larger pieces as they are printed (my preferred understanding is that … Continue reading
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Printing a Nameplate
Time’s Up has a number of ongoing projects. One of them is the Time’s Up Boating Association (TUBA), which of course has its own blog. But that is not what we are here to discuss. The latest post on the … Continue reading
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Late summer, post holidays restart
After wandering all over, we finally all gathered in the workshop tonight to get back to work on the machine. There are several things going on that are fun and interesting, but we are having a bit of a problem … Continue reading
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