Saturday at 10Bit

[Don Smeller]

Holy Cow!  I counted 34 people using my usual routine of talking to people and jotting down names and factoids.  And I estimated 24 more who will have to remain nameless because I was overwhelmed.  The latter came for the board game event from 7 to midnight.  That’s 58 total. And I left early.

Don and Peggy opened the doors of 10Bit at 9:o’clock for Art-in-the-AM.  Militiza came later with coffee. Don had to leave early for a dentist appointment.  Dentists don’t usually work on Saturday, but this was a special deal called “Crown Day” where they offered a deep discount to certain select customers if we would come in on Saturday. Arooga, Arooga.  Warning.  Warning.  It was the nightmare dental equivalent of a barber school.  Rookies, trainees came out of the woodwork and invaded my mouth.  If Stephen King needs a title for his next novel, I will suggest to him “Crown Day”.  I’m pretty sure that two hours in the chair for a single temporary crown is a new record.  They gotta practice on somebody, I guess. Sigh.

When I got back around 2 PM, the place was hoppin.  Jeremy was huddled with Micah, left in picture, Eddie, standing, and Xavier, foreground.  Xavier is going into his junior year at Wagner High School.  Saturday, he built a computer tower from scratch, with his teeth.  Xavier’s mom and little brother were out shopping.  They brought takeout supper for X and Jeremy and then went back out to the shopping fields.  Micah had his MAC partitioned with Windows.  He had it loaded with Solidworks, which he knows and uses, and MasterCam which we’re going to learn in weeks to come.   Eddie just blew into town from Klamath Falls, OR.  He’s working for AmeriCorps, which is like the Peace Corps, only domestic. I showed Eddie the grandfather 3D printer, but it was acting up, not making good contact with the SC card.  Eddie calmly took the controller apart, spotted the trouble,  fixed it, put it back together, all in 5 minutes.  Whoa.  Who? What? have we here?   

 

Kevin was jotting equations involving bow-fiddle symbols (integration) and drawing square waves and I don’t know what other waveforms. Sue and Eddie were unimpressed, I think, but Micah was ready to sign up for the class.

Andres got 4 of his 5 motors turning, got his thermistors putting out plausible results, got his power supply bolted down.  His robotic club buddies Jonathan and William did some necessary cable management tasks and left early but Andres labored on into the night.  His Dad, Daniel had to come and drag him home.  So close.  So close.  Anybody got a spare motor driver board?  That’s what Andres needs to put this project over the top.

Joe and Pearl popped in for a few minutes.  I showed Joe a curled and failed print, and he advised that we should be setting the bed temperature on the MakerBot to 90 degrees C instead of 110.

GnuDon held another class in the studio with Cameron.  They worked with infrared on the Raspberry Pi.  Also in the studio was a fellow PhD candidate name Hong.  She’s working on a chess playing robot.  Did I mention? Some really smart people hang  out at 10Bit.

Matt G brought another drill press in from his shed cleaning day.  It is similar to the little press that we already have, but the new chuck works without a key, the operative word being “it works”.

The next picture is a selfie of a few 10Bit habitues around one of the game tables. 

Jaime is at 5-6 o’clock. She is Jeremy’s GF, down from Austin for the weekend.  She prepares people to take the GED, teaches for an outfit called LifeWorks.  

Mike G is at 7-8 o’clock.  He spent some of Saturday attending to his on-line MechWarrior habit, and he discovered the wonders of the AppleTV.  He streamed AC/DC for the edification of the rest of us.

Greg, 9-10 o’clock, and Salina, 11-12 o’clock, came mid afternoon to hang out and stayed for game night.  Salina just got back from a trip to New York.

Chris 12-1 o’clock would never, ever miss game night. 

Don, white Q’tip wisp at 4 o’clock was trying to stay out of the picture.

This ensemble was joined later by Keith.

Some notable first timers crossed our threshold Saturday.  

A middle-ish age couple Paul and Amanda are new in town from Houston.  He had been a member at a hacker space there. She sews. They were in and out in 10 minutes.

Jonathan and Edgar are two young dudes.  They sort of came for game night, but James got hold of them and he converted them to be 10Bit touristas.  They’re hooked, at least Jonathan is, and he promises to come back with his dad in tow.

Joey and Corina came late for game night.  Joey took pictures (they’re probably on FaceBook by now).  He also brought a 2 x 4 sheet of Masonite and proceeded to pare it down on the table saw and then flop it onto the laser cutter bed for a long slow silhouette cutout of a rope dancer. This was alleged to be for a baby shower? Ask a stupid question.

 

Like I said at the top, the regulars added up to 34.  And then came the Game Night people. I estimate 24 more as of 9PM.  They were planning to go till midnight and who knows what the night was going to reveal. The gamers are refugees from construction-torn Geekdom where they ordinarily would have met. Gamers come bearing snacks and drinks and games and they know how to throw a party.  I didn’t catch names. But we at 10Bit were proud to be able to accommodate them.

      

Don S

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[Don Smeller]

Peggy played the damsel-in-distress card, Saturday.  She despaired that her sad old iPad was beyond repair. She was looking online at maybe stepping up to a MacBook Air.  She’s on Social Security and, you know, those things cost a thousand dollars.  “Woe,” she keened.  “Woe is me.”  But, behold, along comes Eddy Slackinger, knight errant from the wilds of Oregon, astride a VIA bus, have-backpack-will-travel.  Eddy points out that Peggy has missed, like, a gazillion software updates.  He downloads the latest APP for her and suddenly she and her iPad are singing a new tune.  But, will wonders never cease, there’s more.  Matt Grooms squeezes into the IT-guys-strut-their-stuff-for-the-damsel competition arena.  He wakes up the BlueTooth dragon that has lain dormant, lurking undiscovered, in Peggy’s little iPad.  Using his index finger as a magic wand, Matt touches her screen, and, he mutters the long forgotten incantation, “AbbraCadabra, MacOS Preferences”. He launches a command that causes a commotion across time and hackerspace.  The HP printer several feet away comes to life.  “Test Case. 1, 2, 3”  it jets out in Gothic font.  First it is just black and white.  But Matt is on a roll.  He coaxes COLOR to spew forth from the printer.  He goes further.  He produces a BlueTooth keyboard seemingly from thin air. But Oh-No. Arruooooga, Warning. Red light.  The Anker needs to be recharged. Muttering, Matt wrangles up a wall wart.  Tension mounts,  Finally, placing Peggy’s trembling fingers on the keys, he leads her to stroke out new lyrics. “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”  Effortlessly.  Remotely.  Wondrously.

  

Being that the company that made his ZIM 3D printer went belly up, James decided to acquire a used ZIM on eBay, for cheap, to use as spare parts.  But maybe, just maybe, he can resuscitate the cadaver and have a second printer.  It needs a power supply.  It needs to be set up on the wifi network. It needs its X-Axis end stop to be discombobulated.  

 

Sue made huge 10BitWorks logo transfers. She applied them, front and back, to a white lab coat for Chris.

Chris erected a mast for his quad copter antenna.  

Matt trouble-shot the new wifi network that he set up this week.  He got my Pi Server working again.  Thanks Matt.

Stevanie, the girl next door, did her spontaneous apparition thing, again.  Suddenly, she’s  . . . there.  She had a post card in hand from a prospective college.  She’s got 2 years to pick a school and land a fine arts scholarship.  Her Native American blood may help her in that quest.

Charles from the XCSSA club brought in a 90’s vintage rack mountable audio comparator for their 1st Saturday event.  He proceeded to disassemble it and desolder all the capacitors that had paths to ground.  When you’re an audiophile, you can’t be listening to anything that has ground interference.  Sheesh.

Kevin’s main role Saturday, as near as I can figure, was to help Sue hold down the handle of the little heat press.  But soon he discovered the big heat press, and schlepped it out, and set it up, and found he was no longer needed for ballast duty.  Work smarter not harder. 

Militza brought egg sandwiches.

Don fussed with air conditioner filters and sent an e-mail to the landlord whining about the lack of cooling in the studio.

Ken Runner zoomed in and out Saturday.  But he stayed long enough to report a problem with the grandfather printer.  It wouldn’t read the micro-SD card.  Lo, the classic IT advice worked in this situation, too.  When all else fails to suit, cross your fingers and reboot.  Turn it off. Turn it back on. Put your left foot in.  Put your left foot out.  Hold your tongue just so.  Hey Ken, It’s working again.  Why?  Why did it ever work?  

Ken asked for a SketchUp lesson for himself and the other Ken.  So, hear ye, hear ye.  We’re going to do a SketchUp beginner to intermediate class on Wed evening Aug 5. 6:30.  BYO laptop.  It’s free.  Just show up.

Ryan videoed more footage for his upcoming “10Bit Tour, The Movie”.  He’s also considering a series of how-to shorts that will likely be accessed from the wiki.  For instance, Saturday he started a “how-to-get-signed-up-for-Google-groups-and-receive-this-report” video.   

Attendance was only 13.  We hope a like number of other regulars were attending Joey’s BarCamp at the library.

Sunday Aug 2, Chris and Sean and Greg are going to be at Olmos Park at noon for the quad-copter races, and later, 1ish?, they plan to come back to 10Bit and form up the beginnings of a quad-copter builders group.  Interested?  Show up.

Don S

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[Les Hall]

Nice!  I particularly liked the knights in shining software story, and a good day was enjoyed by all!  I spent all of Saturday and all the night til morning 3D printing Christmas ornaments.  They are teardrop shaped, most of them, upside down teardrops.  Pretty in the translucent ColorFabb filament I have, all five colors!  

Les

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[Matt Grooms]

pictures, Pictures, PICTURES!

Les, hook me up with a gallery of your best / favorite 3-D printed work and I’ll add them to the slide shows that run on the AppleTVs at the space.

Matt

On Aug 2, 2015, at 9:55 AM, 10BitWorks on behalf of Les Hall <sa-hack...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Nice!  I particularly liked the knights in shining software story, and a good day was enjoyed by all!  I spent all of Saturday and all the night til morning 3D printing Christmas ornaments.  They are teardrop shaped, most of them, upside down teardrops.  Pretty in the translucent ColorFabb filament I have, all five colors!  

Les

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Peggy played the damsel-in-distress card, Saturday.  She despaired that her sad old iPad was beyond repair. She was looking online at maybe stepping up to a MacBook Air.  She’s on Social Security and, you know, those things cost a thousand dollars.  “Woe,” she keened.  “Woe is me.”  But, behold, along comes Eddy Slackinger, knight errant from the wilds of Oregon, astride a VIA bus, have-backpack-will-travel.  Eddy points out that Peggy has missed, like, a gazillion software updates.  He downloads the latest APP for her and suddenly she and her iPad are singing a new tune.  But, will wonders never cease, there’s more.  Matt Grooms squeezes into the IT-guys-strut-their-stuff-for-the-damsel competition arena.  He wakes up the BlueTooth dragon that has lain dormant, lurking undiscovered, in Peggy’s little iPad.  Using his index finger as a magic wand, Matt touches her screen, and, he mutters the long forgotten incantation, “AbbraCadabra, MacOS Preferences”. He launches a command that causes a commotion across time and hackerspace.  The HP printer several feet away comes to life.  “Test Case. 1, 2, 3”  it jets out in Gothic font.  First it is just black and white.  But Matt is on a roll.  He coaxes COLOR to spew forth from the printer.  He goes further.  He produces a BlueTooth keyboard seemingly from thin air. But Oh-No. Arruooooga, Warning. Red light.  The Anker needs to be recharged. Muttering, Matt wrangles up a wall wart.  Tension mounts,  Finally, placing Peggy’s trembling fingers on the keys, he leads her to stroke out new lyrics. “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”  Effortlessly.  Remotely.  Wondrously.

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Being that the company that made his ZIM 3D printer went belly up, James decided to acquire a used ZIM on eBay, for cheap, to use as spare parts.  But maybe, just maybe, he can resuscitate the cadaver and have a second printer.  It needs a power supply.  It needs to be set up on the wifi network. It needs its X-Axis end stop to be discombobulated.  

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[Les Hall]

Will do Matt, got some new works to photo now!  

Les

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[Don Smeller]

Ray Good reported a slip-and-fall injury to his right ankle while taking exercise on the Frisbee Golf pitch.  His comment: “Gravity hurts.”  Plates and screws and August will come and go before we see him again.  Ken Runner has volunteered to fill Ray’s big shoes on 3D Tuesdays to open 10Bit.

  

Meet the future of 10BitWorks.  

Clockwise from left are Chris, Andres and Jonathan, in the hat. They are all from Burbank H.S. Robotics Club.  

Anthony had to leave early, otherwise he would have been in the picture.  

Stevanie, from Brackenridge H.S. demurred, but she was in the studio, drawing comic book characters in her new sketchbook.

I showed Andres how to calibrate their extruder.  That’s the last step to getting their DIY 3D Printer working. 

Alas, yet another disaster struck.  They broke the leads on their sole remaining thermistor. They will have to order replacement(s). With time to kill, a board game broke out.

Look closely at the picture, Chris is wearing what on his feet? yes, roller blades!  Jonathan had dragged Chris in off the street.  Chris took this opportunity of his first visit to 10Bit to borrow a pair of Allen wrenches, and reverse the direction of his wheels. Why? Same reason you rotate the tires on your car.

Jonathan hit me up for $20 for a Band Fund Raiser scam: cookie dough.  

Emilio is an airplane mechanic.  He came in with a sheet of 1/8” black Delrin, a brand of acetal.  

He poked around on the cloud and downloaded his own FreeCAD design of a super-strong 9-piece airframe for a quad copter.  

He cut it out with the laser, assembled it with zip-ties, weighed it (230 grams), fed the tip box, and left, all in one hour.

Eddy came back for his third visit to 10Bit with a work colleague, a lass named Katie. They both have shiny new degrees. She’s from Humboldt, CA, fine arts; he’s from Klamath Falls, OR, electrical engineering.   They are postponing the starts of their careers while working for CityYear, a sort of domestic Peace Corps.  Their assignments have them teaching in middle schools here in San Antonio.  She took the tour, laser cut some Fiesta medals.  They left talking about plans to laser etch rubber stamps of their organization’s logo.  

Ryan and Don and James (and Les in absentia) arrayed 3 different versions of the ElectroCoagulation hardware and software on the big-table at 10Bit.  It was a water purification derby / shoot out.  Time lapse video is here: https://youtu.be/ZM6eosPKtbU 

All the entries were under $100. The test medium was tap water laced with black acrylic paint, in mason jars.  Electrodes were aluminum, qty 2.  Time to clarify the water was recorded. When to stop was subjective. 

EC-4 used battery power, USB connectivity, 5V, tiny Arduino, flashing lights to show change of polarity, flash rate suggests voltage, and a rotary pot for voltage adjustment.  It took an hour.

EC-3 used a wall wart for power, 5V, a tiny Arduino, “Processing” sketch to display parameters on a laptop, reverse of polarity is also shown using led’s on the bread board.  It took 40 minutes.

EC-xx used 120VAC, a rheostat to adjust the output voltage, a rectifier to convert to 30 VDC, a relay, a multimeter for monitoring voltage, no reversing of polarity, no micro controller, no software.  It took 5 minutes.

Next steps.  Combine the best of these entries into a single thing: fast, safe, controllable, reversing, monitored, quantitative/reportable results. And keep it under $100.

I counted 17 heads on Saturday.  Not mentioned above were also Mike G, Chris H, Peggy G, Militza C, Joe, Pearl.

Don S

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[Les Hall]

Don, 

I am communicating with you via this medium as you seem to be refusing my texts and phone calls.  I have done everything in my power to cooperate with you, why the cold shoulder and cloak-and-dagger tactics?  

Les

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[Don Smeller]

Don finished his Cheetah painting.

Chris laser cut and spray painted a birthday card for Mom. Also he dabbled in ownCloud

James scanned, scaled down and 3D Printed a mask.

Ronald Mullins SketchUp’ed and printed an adaptor for his computer table.  He goes to SAC, grew up in the cemetery monument business,  knows CNC sandblasting of stone and laser cutting of rubber.

Stevanie sketches.  She goes to Brackenridge.

  

Matt G and nephew Holt refilled the soda machine.

Chris Jorgenson, wife Anita dropped off money for the CNC upgrade.

James and Don chain sawed the pecan tree limbs that lay on the ham loop antenna on the roof.

Sue rigged an Arduino to snap a digital camera, and display the picture on a monitor.  She’s building what will look like an antique photo booth.

Anthony and Andres got their thermistor woes behind them.   Their X-stepper motor sounds like it’s overdriving.  It screams.  

Ken Runner helped Andres get some of the bugs out.  Ken ordered the upgrade kit for the CNC.

Andrew and Sam, first timers, new in town, Air Force, Lackland, took the tour, got their Fiesta Medals.

Greg did something mysterious. Kevin too.

Peggy and Militza watercolored.

Jeremy borrowed all the screwdrivers from 10Bit and took them to the Do-Seum for a Take-Apart event.  He had at least two 6 year olds swear that that was the most fun they’d ever had.

A toad appeared amongst the pecan branches on the sidewalk.

The A/C guy was a no-show.

Head count: 20 between 9AM - 5PM.

[Don Smeller]

I counted 20.

Chris’ father owns the Sunset Inn, the motel between 10Bit and Whataburger.  We’re neighbors. He’s 20-something, a smart guy and very friendly.  He brought his friend Janesh to 10Bit for the nickel tour.  We couldn’t let them leave without making them a couple of laser-cut Fiesta medals.

Dylan is a first timer, working on a PhD at UTSA, and a sometimes worker at SwRI in plasma physics.  He worries about how solar winds will affect weather on earth.  I set him to doing some honest work for a change:  band sawing and deburring steel strips and laser cutting plywood, and generally doing stuff he never gets to do.  He’s hooked.

Randy and Militza are our two public school teachers.  They both once taught at Nimitz Middle School, the place that jettisoned all that shop equipment that 10Bit grabbed up.  School starts Monday.  Randy will be teaching in the Judson ISD. Militza will be in the SWISD.  Good luck to you both on your new assignments.

Stevanie starts 11th grade at Brackenridge, Monday.  She’s Cherokee and was telling about her coming of age ceremony and the wiikiup shelters that her people build.  She ran the laser for several cycles.  I need lots of wooden slats for a project. She kept things going.

Ken and James managed to, not just pop, but explode, a fuse on the new circuit board for the DynaMill.  Some foolishness about putting a.c. in where d.c. is supposed to go.  Sigh.

Kevin asked for some pointers on SketchUp.  He was making a 3D model of a junior size printer.  It spits out 3x5’s on photo paper.  Shhhhh,  it’s for the photo booth that Sue and he  are cobbling together, together.  Meanwhile, Sue coated hardboard with chalkboard paint.  

Mike G used the free version of SketchUp to design a cuboidal grid of flashing LED lights, like the one on the kiosk.  He needed to go from 3D SketchUp into 2D Laser Cutter, which just isn’t done, but we found a “tool chain” work-around.  Pay attention.  From SketchUp Mike exported an STL.  He then imported the STL into SolidWorks.  A slap on the space bar causes Solid Works to orient in an orthogonal 2D view, and a dialog box pops up offering several options.  At this point we called James over.  James poked a green check box and, voila, Solid Works was willing to save as DXF.  Mike imported the DXF into the Laser program.  It was now 2D but there were remnants of the triangles from the STL file. In the laser program, Mike deleted unwanted lines and redrew others that fell off.  He united the paths and the part was ready to download to the laser cutter.

John is another first timer, an entrepreneur of all things computer graphic.  I showed him the grandfather printer and we set it to making an ABS PacMan Ghost.  John filed it and made it nice,  then he acetone vapor polished it in the Fry Daddy.  Next he found a chess knight and he made that smooth and fine too.  Alas it was a knight of the PLA sort, and it was not going to be a candidate for vapor polishing. Stupid PLA.

Reid and Jeremy work together at an architect firm.  They showed up at 10Bit with a sick 3D printer.  It was not communicating with Pronterface.  Ken got them over that hump.  The y-motors still do not work. That’s going to take some serious circuit tracing which will have to wait for another session.

Sacha borrowed the wagon but first he added air to the soggy tires.  

Peggy water-colored invitations to a party for the 90-somethings who attend her art class at the nursing home. 

[Ken Runner]

James, John and I worked on the CNC conversion into the wee hours last night.  We removed the blown fuse and replaced it with a straight wire for now until we can get a replacement.  .

John desoldered the blown fuse and soldered in the straight wire.  This was his first time every soldering and he did a great job.

This occurred mostly because we were rushing and partly because the kit came with no instructions to speak of.  I have since contacted the company that sells it and asked for help and they sent a detailed email with references that would have been very helpful yesterday.

We rewired the CNC to provide the proper DC power to the gecko module.  It turns out the kit was incomplete and we are missing some vital parts like the converter from parallel to ethernet.  I have contacted the company and they will be shipping us the missing parts.  After rewiring we got the gecko powered, but couldn't get the PC to talk via the parallel port.  Turns out the PC needed to be reloaded with a 32-bit version of the OS to work with the parallel port.  We reloaded it with Windows 7 x86.  The parallel port is working now, but the ethernet port we will use later does not.  I ordered a replacement Intel gigabit card that should do the trick.

I'm not sure when we'll get the ethernet smoothstep board, but I should have the ethenet card by next Tuesday and we can continue working on the wiring until we get the rest of the kit.  I'll contact the company that makes the gecko to get the specs on a new fuse so we can order a few.

[tookys3]

A few more details of interest.

We were there till 3 am.

We successfully wired the power through the machines existing main power button and e-stop button.

And have one of the steppers wired up. We still need to get the gecko board straightened out with the communication to verify we wired the stepper correctly

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[Don Smeller]

27 people had come through the space as of 8:30 PM Saturday.

Kevin and Sue worked on a wooden box to house a photo printer to go with their photo booth / cabana for that too fast approaching wedding.   

He unboxed shiny new attachments for the table saw: a set of Daddo blades and a super fence called an “INCRA iBox”. 

The latter holds and guides work pieces while making T-slot joints. Link to a 6 minute You Tube video.

John hacked together a hand-held video camera mount, one that counteracts the jostling of a walking cameraman.

It needs a few tweaks.

Joey and Corina laser cut some way-cool policeman’s shield stickers. 

She had printed the cub paw icon of her new school (now in North ISD), one for each of her 4th grade students.

Joey is getting ready to launch a fund raiser for a desktop laser cutter which he promises to let us borrow to take to shows like at the Witte.  I’m in.

Brandon brought in a DIY kit for a 3D printer.   

It’s big, about a cubic foot of print volume, and very much a work in progress.

Roland, Elena, and Lucas, (Dad, Mom, H.S. Son) were first-time visitors.  

They scored a Ware-View-Bin, (Yea!), fed the tip jar, marveled at laser cutting.

Jason and Gavin, (father and H.S. son) arrived on Vespa Scooter(s?).  

Jason owns a Vespa dealership. 

Also first-timers, they were invited to come-on-daown by new member John Frazee.

Xavier and Jeremy huddled at the ham radio bench and made LED accent lights to trick out Xavier’s new computer.

(Sheesh.  Kids these days!  In my day we added one (only) small, discrete, tasteful school sticker to the leather sheath that held our slide rule.)

Ray appeared at 10Bit for the first time since breaking his foot. 

Instead of a crutch he ordered a 4 wheel scooter on Amazon.

It came fully equipped: disc brakes, a cushion for his knee, a basket for his Whataburger, 

Andres, Jonathan and Richard worked with Ray (and Ken not shown) and got the x,y,z motors dialed in on the grandson 3D printer.

They stayed late and may have actually printed their first test piece last night.  Ray? Ken? Andres? please report.  How far did you get?

Ray and Ken also conspired over the CNC Dyna Mill like two mad surgeons planning a radical brain transplant. 

Can you spell Bwa ha ha ha?

Dylan is looking for a project.  He showed interest in reviving a certain robot car.  

He got hooked on Fritzing (2 minute video) as a way of getting his head into the circuits.

James returned his ZIM to its full upright position, now goober free.  He left it PLA-ing happily into the night.

Militza added about 10^6 plus or minus 2*10^5 dark dots to her sunflower painting. 

Watercolorists will recognize the dark dot stage as being a sign that she’s almost done.

Bonus feature: possibly a joke

Two great white sharks swimming in the ocean spied survivors of a sunken ship.

"Follow me son" the father shark said to the son shark and they swam to the mass of people.

"First we swim around them a few times with just the tip of our fins showing." And they did.

"Well done, son! Now we swim around them a few times with all of our fins showing." And they did.

"Now we eat everybody." And they did.

When they were both gorged, the son asked, "Dad, why didn't we just eat them all at first? Why did we swim around and around them?"

His wise father replied, "Because they taste better if you scare the crap out of them first!"

Don S

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[Les Hall]

I like the Whataburger holder most of all, but great goings-on all around!  

Les

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[Andres Coit]

I did not take very good pictures. But here is the progress so far.

http://imgur.com/a/A3Y8i

Unfortunately, 85°C was not enough to hold the cm^3 cube to the glass. I'll change it to a (2cm)^3 cube and 90°C.

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[Don Smeller]

Yea Andres.  Mighty robots from tiny orange cubes grow.

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