Lately, I’ve been on a tech nostalgia kick. For example, I’ve been buying old software from eBay and reliving them on virtualized Windows 95 and Windows 2000 machines. Along with software, I’ve also been looking at really old technical books. For example, stuff by Alan Holden; they’re absolute gems. While reading Alan’s book about growing …
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Extending The Kobayashi Fidget
A short while ago, I was playing with a 3D-printed Kobayashi fidget cube. It’s an excellent fidget and 3D-printed toy. I was looking for something to remix when I found a remixed version that had supports built into the model so that hovering parts were properly supported and unfused with parts that shouldn’t be touching …
Picatinny Vive VR Tripod Stowage System
I recently needed to accommodate a Vive headset in my small work area. Along with the basic VR hardware, I also required tripods to hold the base stations up high. In my quest to find a proper place for things, I decided to create a holding system for the hardware when not in use. While …
Labels For Various CNC Things
By CNC, I mostly mean 3D printers, but some of these things are general belts and pully things. As always for (for small things), having the illustrations drawn at scale is essential. I originally started creating these labels to properly organize a pile of litter (a.k.a., tackle boxes). While these didn’t come in tackle boxes, …
Labels for Retaining Clip
I added entries for retaining clips, specifically E-clips and interior ring clips. They don’t have simple shapes (like washers), but luckily, I can rotoscope them by throwing them on the scanner bed, scanning them, and tracing those scans in Inkscape. E-Clips I only needed two sizes – so I only bought two sizes – so …
Mini Metal Maker Progress
I’ve been following this book, Build your own Mini Metal Maker, for making a small paste extrusion printer. So it’s a small LDM (Liquid Deposition Modeling) printer intended to work with metal clay that would then go into a kiln. I haven’t gotten the thing printing quite yet, but the assembly is pretty much built, …
Labels For Chicago Screws
Continuing my quest to ditch a mountain of tackle boxes for drawers and bags: Chicago screws. SVG is available from GitHub.Made in Inkscape. The icons for the drawer labels are oblique orthographic projections: showing the front plan to scale, but the side plan (depth) is shown at half-width. This is for recognizing the object on the …
Craftsman 30 Drawer Dividers
3D printed dividers for the Craftsman 30 Drawer Multi-Use Cabinet that I purchased at Lowes. The cabinet is also available online under the Stanley brand.Why have two brands sell the same product and only use one exclusively for a given sales method? Beats me. My guess is some kind of branding that moneys the branded …
Labels for Dupont Connectors
I bought an assortment tackle box of Dupont connectors for custom GPIO connectors, switches, and Nema motor connectors. So out of the entire assortment, only the 1×2, 1×3, and 1×4 connectors got used. When I run out, I replace them with a bulk pack (100 of any specific type), find a larger bag, and slap …
A New Blog Category About Organizing
So I’ve started a new hobby, making labels to organize things. It’s a tedious hobby… Oh god, is it tedious… I do this to myself… Too Many Things! So I’ve been making various RepRaps and robots and buying the parts and tools for them. I recently inventoried all my items, and I’ve come to a …