Category Archives: probably boring

This year with less risk of exploding batteries

Posted on December 16, 2014 by paulwallich

So there was this spot in our living room that was just perfect for an Ikea lamp. The only problem was that we didn’t want to pay an electrician to put in a new electrical line, or a sheetrock/painter type … Continue reading →

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The encrustation of the analog on the digital

Posted on December 8, 2014 by paulwallich

If Henri Bergson had been writing around the turn of the millennium, he would have talked about abstraction violations. In his time, it was about living beings acting like mechanisms. For me this weekend, it was about digital devices acting … 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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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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