this #3DPrinting project is coming along - learning to make an enclosure for a custom pcb. Created the shell and added standoffs and pin connectors #projectLog #project2032 #hackerspace #makerspace #3dprinting #fusion360 #diy

#project2033 watch holder #projectLog here is the current iteration for the garmin forerunner 245 watch holder #3dprinting #design #maker #hacker #fusion360 #diy -- but there are some problems with the current model ..

#project2033 #projectLog 3D printed the first test run for my garmin sports watch holder, added a through hole for the charging cable and an inset divet for the heart rate monitor sensor which extrudes 2mm on the back #3dprinting #maker #hackerspace #makerspace

Looks as awesome as we imagined, and this is just 16 of them. End goal is 800+ in a ~1.5 x ~1m wall of pixels displayed in the window of #BallaratHackerspace.

#ProjectLog #DIY

Many people have stuck ESP8266’s into Ikea Vindriktning air quality sensors, but I’ve been trying to make projects more “product-like” lately so I spent a bit designing this little bracket that hugs the existing internals perfectly and tidied up the entire idea.

#diy #project #projectlog #esp8266

This will be the thread tracking the development of our DIY electromagnetic coil winding machine, aka “We wanted to make a pinball machine then realised actuators are expensive so how hard could it really be to make our own actuators and electromagnetic coils in general?”… aka Spoolio for short.

#BallaratHackerspace #ProjectLog #TotallyNotMakingACoilgunOfficer

We started off prototyping the idea using an old Prusa clone as the chassis to easily get some of the moving axis we required, and whipped up a laser cut adapter on the bed to add a rotating (spooling) axis. First we just wanted to see if the stepper motors even had the torque to wind magnet wire off a roll or whether we’d need to start looking at gearboxes etc.

@rob @firnsy Actually #projectlog seems empty and I like the star-trekky sound of it. 😎

So yeah, all of this complicates things. Not to mention: Doing it all from scratch. Well, technically, its "just" the design thats done from scratch, the underlying technique is already existing and doing its job.

Havent have done a lot "from scratch" designs lately, esp. not a full-blown shop, I've kinda struggled with .. actually not the design per se, but that most prototyping tools for Linux are just such a piece of .. art? garbage dump?!?

#projectlog #webdesign #prototyping #linux

BTW: What I forget to mention - although its called a "shop", next to no items (jewelry) are sold off the shelf. This is the site of a goldsmith master crafts(wo)man, who is custom manufacturing each and any piece you can "buy", based on your supplied measures and information. This may also include letter engraving, embedding gemstones and split partner items (eg. pendants).

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#projectlog #circumstances #jewelry

There also still is a nasty demon cowering, called "custom frontend form fields" for the products. Not such a hassle, just something to keep in mind. Yes, there is a bunchload of plugins out there that "supposedly" solve this issue, but each and any of them are pretty nasty when it comes to the administrative side.

So I'm using an existing plugin of mine, which works entirely with ACF in the backend, thus - lessening the PITA of managing a shop!

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#wp #projectlog #rant #acf #shop

After having punished myself with that, most data could successfully be imported, aside of some rather nasty randomly customized stuff, by the former "programmer" of the client (who wasn't a real programmer at all, just a very narcissist guy acting all smart).

Which means: A lot of images are still in the process of being assigned to the correct product - for 250 products, with about 1/3 properly assigned.

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#projectlog #wordpress #programming

Digging oneself around the guts of xt:Commerce is rather .. nasty. What other shop systems or e-commerce frameworks solve with just two, maybe three tables, is done in a very crude fashion sometimes spanning 8 tables with INNER JOINs and sub-SELECTs. It feels like somebody read about RDBMS for the first time, was excited, and just randomly added their new-found wisdom.

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#projectlog #xtcommerce #woocommerce #sql

Project log: Guess I'm starting to jot this down here - as I'm always and ever planning big to drop it into my blog, as a series of articles. But that NEVER HAPPENS - because there never seems to be enough time .. after all, its lots of work! xD

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