Stuff you have made today

[slim_boy_fat]

but don't ask me how to get it alinged

Verrrry careful measuring/marking/drilling..... Probably have to make a jig of some sort.

 

[Munkul]

I think I'll just live with it as-is

 

[brewdexta]

Dowels may be easier dont need a special tool just a drill but don't ask me how to get it alinged

Dowel marking pins is what you need

 

[magnet]

Tool box made over a few lunch times. It's a present for my lad for Christmas

 

[mtt.tr]

Router or biscuit cutter should do it?

EDIT: Just seen the OP's post re tool availability so scrub this.

Needs planning properly to be hidden

 

[Lewis_RX8]

Dowel marking pins is what you need

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Ah now why didnt I think of that , Looks a simple enough lathe project aswell turn up as and when you need them

 

[Dr.Al]

Playing with my new toy: today I took the first couple of steps down what I suspect is going to be a very deep rabbit hole:

Grey is PLA, green is PETG - as you can see from the flat pieces, my first attempt at PETG was less than perfect, but it was easily fixed. I don't expect to use PLA much again, but it seemed sensible to start with it as it came with the printer kit.

 

[nickk]

Security bar for the inside of a pair of shop doors.

 

[mtt.tr]

Acquired a slab of Ash very cheap as it was warped and cracking at the ends. Cut and sanded, some screws in the ends to arrest any further cracking, and oiled. It's to be a general purpose clothing shelf where flatness isn't important, but it should look cool

Also marked and cut some stainless sheets to fold up into firepit ash trays.


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This is the only example I have left, this was warped, so I cut it and jointed it.

There is a join in this.



Think I made this when I was 16

 

[roblane65]

You may as well just take a fat kid to a sweetshop, @Hood.

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I bent up some 60mm x 5mm stainless today as inserts for it, it reduces the width of the V to about 25mm from the 33 as delivered, it lets you bend a tighter radius on thinner stuff and also lets you bend shorter distances between bends. Might even make more up to reduce the V width more.

I still have to dress off the tops of them.
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!!!!!!! YOU TWO have got me thinking about one of these now

 

[RichardM]

Really like that! I looked and thought how...it's a field gun...

Loosely based on a Pak40. I may alter the wheels to straight spoke when I get some "spare" time, I think I will be able to mill them on the rotary table relatively easily (better than filing it all out).

 

[Mick Annick]

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Any way of locking it in place?

 

[nickk]

No ,she didn’t want anything too complicated,just push resistance.

 

[Mick Annick]

No ,she didn’t want anything too complicated,just push resistance.

We had internal shutters on our Victorian house in Wantage, they had a beautifully simply locking bar mechanism, it made me smile when I closed them at night.

 

[northwest]

Bent up some more copper flashing for my ongoing roof project:


Getting there, Weather has screwed me really.

 

[northwest]

Real fabricators look away now. I am going to do myself a favour and just scrap this and do it again, yes, it is on the wonk, housing for the new controller, I was quite pleased with the welding!:

 

[mtt.tr]

Bent up some more copper flashing for my ongoing roof project:
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Getting there, Weather has screwed me really.

Its a lovely material especially when done well. Very crisp.

 

[nickk]

Another handrail,20mm round,loose brackets,so I can pick the best stone.

 

[brewdexta]

I made a start on the electricity monitor. First attach the LED pulse sensor to the meter. You can see it just below the meter's LCD screen. The pulse meter connects to a BAE0910 one-wire slave chip which is in the box bottom right. The switch on the right is the changeover switch for the gennie.

The slave chip is wired back to a one-wire bus on a raspberry pi that I have under the stairs, I'm using CAT5 cable as I have loads of external grade. Its called one-wire as there is only one data line, but there's +5v and 0v so its actually 3 wires

For once, something worked first time.

The one wire address for the slave chip is FC.0000000001D2 so I added it to my alias file and called it "emeter".

Now I can access the counter easily as follows from the command line,

pi@hapi01:~ $ owget /emeter/910/count ; echo
12520
pi@hapi01:~ $ owget /emeter/910/count ; echo
12996

The counter increments each time the LED flashes on the meter, and this flashes for every 1Wh, so 1000 flashes is 1kWh.

Now I know it works I shall get rid of the spiders and tidy up the cabling.

Next step is to poll the counter periodically, say every 5 minutes, and stick it into influxdb, a time series database. Once its in there it is easy to graph it. I shall get the kids to do that.

I'm quite impressed with the chip, it can do lots more.

One to four 16 bit PWM: two hardware (PWM1 & 2) + two software(PWM3 & 4)
One 8 to 10 bit ADC input 0 to 5V
One 32 bit counter
Up to 4 digital outputs (sink up to 20mA)
Up to 3 digital inputs

it also has a real time clock and and "automation engine" where you can write your own procedures as follows.

The BAE chips embed an Automation Engine that allows creating automatic (re)actions directly within the chip.
This is implemented as a virtual CPU that process up to four flow of instruction in parallel.
The AE programs are stored in non volatile chip memory (eeprom) which is remotely programmable under master
control

 

[mtt.tr]

I made a start on the electricity monitor. First attach the LED pulse sensor to the meter. You can see it just below the meter's LCD screen. The pulse meter connects to a BAE0910 one-wire slave chip which is in the box bottom right. The switch on the right is the changeover switch for the gennie.

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The slave chip is wired back to a one-wire bus on a raspberry pi that I have under the stairs, I'm using CAT5 cable as I have loads of external grade. Its called one-wire as there is only one data line, but there's +5v and 0v so its actually 3 wires

For once, something worked first time.

The one wire address for the slave chip is FC.0000000001D2 so I added it to my alias file and called it "emeter".

Now I can access the counter easily as follows from the command line,

pi@hapi01:~ $ owget /emeter/910/count ; echo
12520
pi@hapi01:~ $ owget /emeter/910/count ; echo
12996

The counter increments each time the LED flashes on the meter, and this flashes for every 1Wh, so 1000 flashes is 1kWh.

Now I know it works I shall get rid of the spiders and tidy up the cabling.

Next step is to poll the counter periodically, say every 5 minutes, and stick it into influxdb, a time series database. Once its in there it is easy to graph it. I shall get the kids to do that.

I'm quite impressed with the chip, it can do lots more.

One to four 16 bit PWM: two hardware (PWM1 & 2) + two software(PWM3 & 4)
One 8 to 10 bit ADC input 0 to 5V
One 32 bit counter
Up to 4 digital outputs (sink up to 20mA)
Up to 3 digital inputs

it also has a real time clock and and "automation engine" where you can write your own procedures as follows.

The BAE chips embed an Automation Engine that allows creating automatic (re)actions directly within the chip.
This is implemented as a virtual CPU that process up to four flow of instruction in parallel.
The AE programs are stored in non volatile chip memory (eeprom) which is remotely programmable under master
control

I had no idea that led flashes to any particular rate.

Very smart