Thermal qualities of E3D’s Edge Filament

Posted by on Aug 20, 2017 in Design, Digifab | No Comments

I’m making some containers for a client who needs to evaporate water from a solution to get the weight of the solids.  It’s straightforward high school chemistry: weigh container add solution dehydrate water in a special enclosure weigh container + solids now you have the weight of the solids. The problem they have is that […]

A little fundraising work

Posted by on Aug 6, 2017 in Uncategorized | No Comments

I’m riding again in The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride, a fundraising motorcycle ride where the proceeds go to cancer research and men’s mental health. If you have a few spare pennies, please throw them this way: https://www.gentlemansride.com/rider/jetownsend

Music Book Page Holder / Clip

Posted by on Aug 3, 2017 in Design, Digifab | No Comments

Another thing I made for my own use then flipped to sell, a sturdy music book page holder.

Kinect Tripod Mount

Posted by on Aug 3, 2017 in Design, Digifab | No Comments

Q: Ok, so now you have a 3d printer in your house. What do you print? A: More 3d printers! So we have that joke finally out of the way. How about a tripod mount for the (then) shiny new Kinect?

First Order Tool Access, MakerBot Cupcake

Posted by on Aug 3, 2017 in Design, Digifab | No Comments

I built Cupcake #235 and in my first few prints discovered it required maintenance, adjusting, tweaking, etc, to make a good print. I designed and shared some first order tool holders that made my life a bit easier.

A clean Studio is a Happy Studio

Posted by on Aug 1, 2017 in Design | No Comments

Some days when I get frustrated with a project or a client or just plain adulting, I take a mental break by reorganizing my studio. I get way more work done in a clean studio then when it’s a total mess. It’s also a safer studio — tools where they are supposed to be, no […]

locking up the UI for safety

Posted by on Jun 1, 2017 in Digifab, Warifuru | No Comments

My initial plan for warifuru was to lock up the UI during an actual laser cutting operation.  There would be one floating control panel that controls the cut, and after the cut is started the only options for the operator is to stop/pause the cut. Looking at the new lasersaur API and thinking about other […]

Slight warifuru sidetrack

Posted by on Mar 8, 2017 in Design, Warifuru | No Comments

I put a lot of effort in to the front end of warifuru looking at use cases, other software, and how people use laser cutters.   Also did some crash-course learning of Qt5 — which I like way more than Cocoa/iOS — and got a sketch together that could parse DXF in to an abstract model […]

Win10 now supported

Posted by on Jan 3, 2017 in Warifuru | No Comments

Way easier than I thought to port a Qt5 app from OSX to Win10.  My goal now is to have a -0001 release finished by the end of January.

Windows support for warifuru

Posted by on Dec 11, 2016 in Warifuru | No Comments

Semester is over, I’ll grade on Monday, then I get all winter break to focus on warifuru. Question:  Which versions of Windows should I support other than 10? I currently have Win10 in VMWare on my Mac (for SolidWorks) and Qt5 is just a slog with only 8Gb of RAM allocated.  I have a new […]

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