Eddie designed a frame last week for his invention. It had a long overhang that looked droopy when 3D-printed. James M suggested a design change that would greatly reduce the overhang. Then James used his “Simplify” software to add support material where needed. At day’s end Eddie’s new design was 4 hours into a 5 hour print.
The threesome of Tom M, Charles W and Matthew H sat around the big white table and planned a balloon-lofted, GPS-like, Blue-tooth-on-steroids communication network. As they hove out of sight, the SantaClaus-clone Matthew was heard to say, “Gentlemen, let’s go make money.”
Victor, a stay-at-home Dad, his son Vurukai, 7, and Dad’s friend Alfonso, a.k.a. The Fons, came for the tour. The boy was intrigued by the little tug boats that have begun to accumulate on the Gramps bench. So we kicked off a print job and situated Vurukai on the ladder so that he could cling like a monkey and watch. They couldn’t stay until the finish of the print. They took one of the earlier samples.
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Peggy and Militza and Don painted while Peggy’s son Travis got himself set up with Arduino’s IDE. He pecked his way through tutorials.
Gabby, Nancy, and Olivia stored SpareParts treasures on the high shelves. Gabby was on crutches. She’d broken a meta-tarsal.
GnuDon popped in and told of an upcoming maker show at Roosevelt HS, where he teaches. He also reported troubles with PayPal.
Chris and Keith met up.
Gabriel and Brian Q added a wood and plastic rack to hold their reels of filament. Then they took their 3D Printer away. They will do a show-and-tell at Burbank H.S. next week.
Sue double stitched her leather project with waxed lacing.
Greg wrote code. It’s a game app, coming along. I caught a glimpse of a starry background. What sort of game involves a starry background?
We held our monthly meeting. We’re surviving. Another Haunted House is coming. Financial stuff to do.
The big laser is down for maintenance. The little laser is being readied for general, non-tortilla, use. Ken is dedicating an old laptop and updating it with Windows something-something-32bit-something to run the special laser software.
Ray demonstrated using the Dyna Mill in manual mode using his laptop’s keyboard arrows.
Another James, this one from Helotes, showed up late and pumped James M with 3D-printing questions. Make or Buy? Accuracy? Quality? Compare / Contrast. James M knows his stuff.
Others not mentioned above: Kevin, Jeremy, Stevanie, Tall-Dude-who-escaped-sans-name.
All told, there were 31 of us at 10Bit on Saturday 9/10/2016
Don S
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Again, nowadays, I’m manning the fort on Thursday evenings. If you’d like to discuss a project and/or learn the how-to’s of 3D-CAD, 3D printing, graphics software, laser cutting & engraving . . . that’s what I’m there for. Show up.