Dallas Makerspace Show and Tell - August 2016

[lukeiamyourfather]

I made a camera mount for a car last week with PVC pipe and glass holding suction cups from Harbor Freight. I found the idea of using the cheap suction cups on YouTube after looking at higher dollar options meant to be used for filming from cars. It seemed a bit crazy but so far so good.

It needs to be a little beefier because it was wobbling up and down on bumps which was showing up as sine waves on frames. I’m going to 3D print some braces to go between the pipes. The test video is below. The eventual montage video will have music, cuts, and lots of locations at varying times of day. I suggest fullscreen mode for the video.

[kyrithia]

I took the torch-fired enameling class a couple weeks ago. Then it got too close to some beads. Made a necklace. (sterling silver wire, beads are lapis, chatoyant malachite, azurite, three types of turquoise, pearl, and austrian crystal).

Yeah, and my trigger finger mighta got itchy, causing a big yummy enamel sampler to magically appear on my doorstep today.

[TBJK]

You might be getting that play from the hood itself.

[lukeiamyourfather]

That’s a possibility but it seems pretty solid. This is what the sine wave like artifacts look like. I’ll post again after testing with the 3D printed braces installed.

[Dawsmart]

Dude Luke that footage is amazing. Was it terrifying to suction cup your DSLR to your car?

[Tapper]

Tomb Dragon on the CNC Router…

Fresh off the Multicam, using a piece of Cherry…

A little detail

The finished piece, inlaid into a piece of Peruvian Walnut…

Inscription on the back, using diamond drag bit and brass sheet.

[ChadB]

A custom wrench I made in 15 minutes that while it may look like crap saved me hours of time by preventing me from having to order or drive all over town looking for one.

…and yes it was made with a box of scrap.

[John_Marlow]

if you ever want tiny yarn skeins/balls, I can hook you up

Actually sounds like something I could use.

[uglyknees]

You blow me away with this! What an amazing display of talent!!

[jlcourtman]

Whoo-hoo! I’ll let you teach next time- looks like you are way ahead of
me! Beautiful stuff!!!

[uglyknees]

Drooling! Every month this gets better and better!

[ESmith]

Dude Luke that footage is amazing. Was it terrifying to suction cup your DSLR to your car?

I watched it happen from the passenger seat and short of a few of the harder jolts learned to trust the suction cup mount.

[John_Marlow]

The two of you are identifiable at the Fuel City spot … But only if you look quickly.

[ESmith]

As soon as we got back into the car I said something about how there would be a few frames of us derping at the camera.

[John_Marlow]

Thanks. This old woman has learned her new word for the day.

[kbraby]

On the camera, I would be inclined to tether it to the vehicle under the theory that a few bangs agains the vehicle is probably less damage than tumbling down he road at speed if something went wrong.

[frank_lima]

Some of y’all may have seen me working a giant new printer. I am a pretty much done with all of the hardware, just tweaking and refinement at this point.

18mm plywood frame
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3207174/2016-07-07%2022.48.21.jpg

Testing CoreXY gantry
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3207174/2016-07-12%2000.10.59.jpg

Putting the gantry in the frame
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3207174/2016-07-14%2000.31.17.jpg

First print!
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3207174/2016-07-22%2004.07.04.jpg

More tests
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3207174/2016-08-02%2001.50.10.jpg

The printer almost (just small stuff left) assembled and working.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3207174/2016-08-07%2015.44.10.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3207174/2016-08-07%2015.44.20.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3207174/2016-08-07%2015.44.41.jpg

First long print (~12 hours)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3207174/2016-08-09%2013.40.35.jpg

[Jessi_Sawyer]

I made this coin for Gishwhes (the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen) - I was super excited that there was a metalsmithing item this year! Even better that it finally got me to try out etching. So much potential here.

I also went to New Jersey last week and took an Enameling (torch and kiln-fired) and Die-forming workshop. I didn’t leave with any finished pieces, but I started to finish them at the space.

Earrings, textured using a center punch and over-fired white:

Necklace - blue/purple front/over-fired white back - the over-fired white isn’t quite so green on the back…my phone didn’t do a very good job with the color.

[HankCowdog]

Kobo Mini e-ink reader + GPS module from Adafruit + 3D printed spacer/holder + repurposed S/W from the Ultralight community = $55 daylight-readable large screen GPS.

[HankCowdog]

Finally (mostly) finished my western style chinks (like chaps but a little shorter). Trailriding planned for Sunday to try them out.