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MakersHourQuestions

Hello, and welcome to #MakersHour.

Five questions will be presented at 12 minute intervals between 8pm and 9pm on Thursday evenings each week, UK time.
It us a great opportunity for sharing and discussion with ither makers and creative folks, even if you don't wish to respond to the questions set.

The questions will be listed in advance each morning from Monday to Thursday at 10am UK time for advanced consideration and preparation.

Please use the # tag #MakersHour, and also tag this account, @MakersHour, and also @makershour@a.gup.pe, the boost bot, in your responses.

We are always looking for new questions encompassing #Making, #Crafting, #Creativity, etc. and you can submit yours using the # tag #MakersHourBank.

Thank you.

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Quixoticgeek

So the lesson we learn from that mess, is do not leave the wash tank from your resin printer setup next to the window. Even if it's a north facing window. There's enough stray UV to cause some of the resin in the IPA to cure. And then cleaning the tank becomes a right mess.

Also I think next time I want to use a respirator with full organic fumes filtering and not just a P3 filter.

#3DPrinting#ResinPrinting#Making
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Anthony Horton

I felt a strong urge to *make* something, for the sake of my mental health.

About a year and a half ago the kid saw a bubble gun in a toy shop and expressed an interest, I said it would be fairly easy to make one, they said "go on then", I bought a bunch of parts, and then failed to do anything further.

This evening I finally dug everything out again and did a breadboard test of all the electromechanical bits. It looks like that side of things will work OK.

Photo of a work bench covered in electromechanical parts, including a battery holder, a fan, a motor, a button, and an electronic prototyping breadboard with many jumper wires plugged into it.
#Making
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Quixoticgeek

Today's parts. There's 80mm deep 10mm hole in the far ends. Tolerance is such that the 10mm shoulder on the end of the second bar, makes a delightful popping sound when pulled out of the first bar. They aren't actually supposed to go together like that. But hey.

Now I have one more pair of bronze parts to make, and then that's all the lathe work done.

Two polished steel bars with a shoulder on one end. Next to it are a pair of steel caps made to fit over the shoulder.
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Quixoticgeek

Have a motor, and a part that need to attach together, the design is based on a coupler that is sold by a store in aus. It's very much not sensible to try and get the part from aus.

So I'm gonna make it. I have access to a machine shop afterall. But before I can machine it I need to finalise the design.

Rapid prototyping to the rescue. A few mins with openscad to make a 3d model, throw into a slicer, and now it's printing on the resin printer.

#3DPrinting#Making
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N-gated Hacker News

Oh, Canada! 🍁🇨🇦 The Great White North is considering ditching the F-35s because apparently, even snow melts faster than the US decision-making process on jets. ✈️ Meanwhile, #Portugal is also in on the action, proving that when it comes to #military #spending, two can play at indecision. 🤷‍♂️
businessinsider.com/canada-wei #Canada #Decision #Making #F35 #HackerNews #ngated

Business Insider · Canada weighs its purchase of F-35 fighter jets amid US tensionsBy Rebecca Rommen
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Quixoticgeek

Another week. Another museum. This week the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm. I came here largely to see this one tool chest.

It's the Mästermyr toolchest. A 1000 year old chest filled with blacksmithing and woodworking tools. It's an incredibly important find. Beautifully preserved in the bog. The tools are wonderful. I'd seen pictures and read about these tools, but to see them up close. That hack saw is exquisite.

I wonder how the chest ended up discarded.

A viking era tool chest in a museum display case. The chest is open revealing a selection of tools including a small hacksaw, spoon auger, saw, nail plate, etc.. around the chest are various other tools including tongs, hammers, and a chain made iron. A key is laying to the left of the chest.
#Making#Tools#History
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Aral Balkan

Coding is like taking a lump of clay and slowly working it into the thing you want it to become. It is this process, and your intimacy with the medium and the materials you’re shaping, that teaches you about what you’re making – its qualities, tolerances, and limits – even as you make it. You know the least about what you’re making the moment before you actually start making it. That’s when you think you know what you want to make. The process, which is an iterative one, is what leads you towards understanding what you actually want to make, whether you were aware of it or not at the beginning. Design is not merely about solving problems; it’s about discovering what the right problem to solve is and then solving it. Too often we fail not because we didn’t solve a problem well but because we solved the wrong problem.

When you skip the process of creation you trade the thing you could have learned to make for the simulacrum of the thing you thought you wanted to make. Being handed a baked and glazed artefact that approximates what you thought you wanted to make removes the very human element of discovery and learning that’s at the heart of any authentic practice of creation. Where you know everything about the thing you shaped into being from when it was just a lump of clay, you know nothing about the image of the thing you received for your penny from the vending machine.

#AI#VibeCoding#design
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