South West Makers

parkview wrote:That looks fantastic! Where does the PSU and switch sit?

PSU will be a PC one and will be external, same goes for switch, I tracked down a 24 Port 10/100 switch from work we don't use any more.

Stephen...

I love it when a plan comes together, everything lines up (as it should)

However have hit a snag....all standoffs are M2.5 and I thought I had M2.5 nuts and screws etc, looks like I only had M2.0 doh!!! order placed!

I came across this today while looking for some parts.

The Common Parts Library is a set of commonly used electronic components for designing, prototyping, and manufacturing connected device products.

https://octopart.com/common-parts-library

Heres some more thermal goodness while playing around last night, for some reason they are wrong orientation when uploaded here... If I get a chance tonight I want to check calibration ranges of temps, i.e. 0-100Deg and see how far off things are, as I noticed when checking the 3D Printer extruder i...

I now have the panels back from laser cutting and Bunbury Plastics did a great job on the joints with the Kerf, however they forgot to do the engraving, bugger it!!! will look at doing with my Embalmer. Big test will be tonight when I get home and start assembling. I will see if everything fits or n...

Well my birthday present to myself arrived today, a Seek Thermal Camera for the iPhone. 206 x 156 Thermal Sensor 36° Field of View Long Wave Infrared 7.2 - 13 Microns -40DegC +330DegC LW-AAA-2T.jpg LW-AAA-3T.jpg They don't ship to Australia, so I used a drop shipping company who were great, http://w...

Bugger!

An interesting read and analysis on nozzle wear when printing Carbon Fibre

http://e3d-online.com/is-carbon-killing-your-nozzle

Finally got back to this and have sent final drawings off for laser cutting, hoping to have it all up and running before Curtin RoboFaire

Simplify3d (my #1 slicer of choice) has just released this great troubleshooting guide.

https://www.simplify3d.com/support/print-quality-troubleshooting/

Yes this happened to me on the weekend

Is working now so not sure what was causing it.

pics didn't come through BJ

At the last meeting we had a couple of young visitors, Danny (my Step Son) and Spencer (one of the neighbours) that excitedly came away from the meeting with some ideas of capturing Santa on Camera, thus the project "Catch the Magic" was born. To help keep the enthusiasm going, this weeken...

BeJay wrote:Sure is noisy, but worth the risk when you can make pretty cool stuff out of everyday materials!

Oh Yeah!!!

BeJay wrote:Cheers Paul,

Here is my Vacuum adapter in action!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYwOtjnbP6k

Nice one! Dust and Noise are the only downside to CNC, especially when living in a built up area, which is why mine is currently in storage...sigh

Well Done Dylan!

Design just about complete, Just need to finalise the Screen bracket as I've only roughed something in.

Everything else is pretty well done so will Export and do an initial layout for Cutting.

Yet Another Pi Project - introducing piCluster, my Grid Computing exploration system. Update: Flickr Album can be found here https://flic.kr/s/aHsknSJ957 Latest Design Files now on thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1122133 2015-10-14_2057.png 2015-10-14_2130.png A 16 node Grid/Cluster th...