Merry Christmas

[Wade]

My oldest son they teach programming and 3D printing at his school. So I started teaching him how to use an Arduino and we watched #5 I think he’s hooked and wants to build one now lol.

[vlad01]

they take days to 3D print and unless you can find the files online, using CAD is very time consuming as well.

Yeah that's why I never got into this, I am decent in 2D cad only because I was forced with the career I was in (over 12 years in CNC flat bed cutter service engineering roll), but 3D is way over my head and I don't think I'll learn at any rate able to satisfy my own needs I fell into the same trap with welding and ended up selling all my TIG gear some 5-6 years after buying it all and having shown nothing for it

[immortality]

My oldest son they teach programming and 3D printing at his school. So I started teaching him how to use an Arduino and we watched #5 I think he’s hooked and wants to build one now lol.

Nice!

I just got my first Arduino, working on making a DC motor controller for a car project. I feel it's the start of something that will snowball....

Hopefully Mr25 will have his own house in the next few months and I can repurpose a room at home and create a proper workspace for all this stuff.

[Wade]

It’s all fun. Many long hours head scratching but rewarding when you figure it all out

[Wade]

Found all this stuff online. The jig’s are a copy of a sloppy mechanics ls turbo manifold. I chucked it in cad and done a mirror version of it to mount the turbo on the other side. Might come in handy one day. Just wish I could weld better

[The1]

hope everyone had a good christmas and new year.

Good work on the 3d printing. It's such a handy machine for all kinds of things. Im not big on cad, i actually just do alot in either tinkercad for simple stuff or blender once you get your head around the modes and commands.

Id be looking at bambu labs for 3d printers now there speed and quality for FDM is near resin like due to the exhaustive calibration process on them now, also the auto feeders are nice.

[delcowizzid]

I print a full build plate of 9 or 12 bends at a time doesn't take too long to get a heap of bends together .last night I drew up a bcm box to mount my bcm in the starlet properly.if you hate slow printing don't get I.to printing tpu haha.

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[delcowizzid]

Been in full production on 3/16 brake hose brackets and 3/8 fuel line brackets and cable tie mounts lol printing 40 of each

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[delcowizzid]

Bcm case 3d print here if anyone wants it https://m.crealitycloud.com/en/model-de ... 842d88a0a8

[vlad01]

My partner bought me a yellow, well actually technically an amber laser pointer for xmas

Some of the rarer exotic colours I find interesting, and this amber one 593 or so nm uses some funky quantum mechanical voodoo that produces the yellow via a conversion of two peak IR wavelengths from another shorter IR pump diode, one is a crystal that converts the IR from one to the two IRs, then another crystal that doubles those two as combo of the two IR peaks. So like a multi stage solid state pumped laser.

If you have a decent understating of quantum principals, this laser is full of cool and weird quantum effects of different types.

This is very similar to how older type green lasers work, but green is much simpler as it's IR straight into a frequency doubler crystal that lases at the green wavelength.

I bought myself last year a nice 405nm straight diode type UV laser and I love this thing! So many interesting and useful discoveries I've had with such a concentrated powerful narrow band UV source.