Wired wrapped my fake dichroic 
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Little river Mahogany cheese board sanded to 7000 grit.
2 guys 1 bottle of wine. A screw and a pair of pliers. Who needs a wine bottle opener! Not Maker’s!
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The touchscreen that size 24” is about $220. I’m running it on raspbian on a pi 3 b+. I’ll put together a write up on it. It’s not hard to put together.
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What did you use for the CPU? Arduino, RaspPi or something else?
Raspberry pi
I mentor a High School Robotics team called “Team 2714 BBQ”
@abitamimbharmal Is one of the students on the team.
Dan Wolf, @greg and @EnDeR_WiGGiN are also makerspace members and team mentors. I would also like the thank @Dawsmart, @hon1nbo and @Luetchy for their help with the team.
This past weekend the team competed in their second event winning 1st place and qualifying for state championships. They also earned 2nd place during their first event. The kids have worked really hard on this robot and it has payed off.
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Wohooo! Great job, guys! That’s so exciting. How long until state championships?
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State Champs will be in Austin from April 3rd to April 6th.
The event is open to the public so if anyone is going to be in Austin during those days they are welcome to come by say Hi and watch a few matches.
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Made a bench that flips that can hold a tool on both sides! I used the large domino at the space for the larger joints. I was so excited when it flipped for the first time that I’m pretty sure my neighbors heard.
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I had to cut up my nice pretty bracket with the best aluminum weld I’ve ever done on it, so now looks like this, but now it’s actually done and it fits in my car the way it’s supposed to…
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Where do you live, and do you have a liberal project storage policy?
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Lol. Looks like Garland judging by the trash can.
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Pairing the jointer and planer is a good combination. Will often be used sequentially, but seldom iteratively.
Nice looking setup. I like the redundancy of the four barrel latches.
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This past month I went a little crazy making rings. After taking the Sherline mini lathe class I ended up finding a HF lathe for $300 so started making my own stainless steel bands.
Resin and Coolibah burl on Stainless Steel
Glow pigment in Resin and Coolibah burl on Stainless Steel
Desert Ironwood on Stainless Steel
Coolibah Burl with Glow pigment and meteorite shavings on Stainless Steel
Stainless Steel with Copper, meteorite, and glow pigment inlay
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Those are awesome, nice work man!
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WOW!! So much awesome.
I nominate:
@rshill for best use of shop space AND for best inserted GIF ever into Talk
@Jeeves for best glamour shots of great projects
@Kriskat30 for best use of LEDs (they make everything better)
@jrkriehn for stretching our imaginations re what is possible in fabric, sewing, and love
@Lordrook for extensive mastery of several fields, but then denied for baby doll head
@meanbaby for continuing to expand her extensive range of skills
@Edenblue for bringing in new fields to the Space
@black3806 for a truly fun interactive project. +1 one for electronics
Chris @John_Marlow for expanding the range of wow in scale and precision
@hon1nbo for style in making things stronger
@Spoonanator for destroying beauty for a better version
and cheers to everyone for sharing their wins. Thank you!
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In the future, know we have a Press Brake that will handle thicker materials. The unit will do 3/8" steel over 5". Something like 6061 or similar would be butter to it.
-Jim
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We really need to get the wiki tools list updated. Today I (re) learned we have a press brake for thicker materials. Yesterday I learned we have a corner notcher…
I wonder what else we have that I’ve forgotten or never new about to tell n00bs about…
PS Yes, I’m willing to do the wiki updating, but I have little to no info on these newfound treasures…
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I was actually taking pictures of all our significant equipment the other night for a wiki update; it’s a lot of them.
We can at least get the basic info in, then drill down to specific models etc as we can. I’ll add the images into our metal G Suite drive and we can all add it as we go along.
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The magnetic brake in the metal shop worked good, but the metal was pretty brittle. I got a good 20* on it before the cracked. I should have got 3003 aluminum instead of 6061 from what i understand, ive been told that 3003 is substantially more ductile than 6061, but i also might be making that up.
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