Monthly Archives: November 2014

A dumb but nice thing I did

Posted on November 22, 2014 by paulwallich

Here’s what I like about having a 3D printer in the basement. Tonight the 9-year-old had a friend over, and we all got some pizza, and on the pizza were a couple of those little legged-spacer things that keep the … Continue reading →

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An unintended consequence of wire glue’s high resistance

Posted on November 16, 2014 by paulwallich

In my previous piece about playing with copper tape and wire glue and silver-ink pen, I was having trouble figuring out a way to hold a surface-mount LED down and get it electrically connected at the same time. Mashing copper-foil … Continue reading →

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With all deliberate speed

Posted on November 14, 2014 by paulwallich

Meeting at the library to discuss makerspace stuff. Way more people than I expected, doing way more interesting things already. We had a lot of discussion about what a setup with multiple spaces might look like, what role the library … Continue reading →

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Surface Mount LEDs on Paper

Posted on November 13, 2014 by paulwallich

Even without a magnifier, my old eyes and fingers can deal with some of the bigger SMT LED packages.  I’ve been doing some tests to figure out the best way to mount and connect these.  A couple dabs of wire … Continue reading →

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Goodbye Green ABS

Posted on November 11, 2014 by paulwallich

There it goes, the last scrap of the first kilo of filament I ever got. Halfway though a print, of course, so I just pushed some lousy glow-in-the-dark stuff — the only other 3mm ABS I had handy — through … Continue reading →

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More Shapeoko parts

Posted on November 6, 2014 by paulwallich

I’ve been working on a revised set of shapeoko-2 endstop parts, and now they’re up at Youmagine, along with a few pictures. I decided on mechanical endstops for all three axes, both because that’s electrically simpler and because microswitches are … Continue reading →

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