Blog 2024
2024-10-28 Tuesday
- Andrew was measuring his cauliflower!
- Steve was testing his Snapcircuits audio amplifier and radio receiver modules and salvaging batteries from a handheld vac
- IanM was soldering wires onto 10K, 100K and 1 meg pots for electronics breadboarding.
- Leo was moving the Pi Octoprint camera to the end of the Prisa's X gantry.
- David was on the laser cutter.
- Andy was *again*!
others?
2024-10-22 Tuesday
- Andrew was printing a cauliflower calibration to test the dimensional accuracy of the geetech
- Steve was fixing various electronics including a battery charger which may need new diodes
- Paul was testing various environmental sensors and helped Andy's sanity with a script for the router
- Elizabeth returned to work on her code for room customisation
- IanM helped Steve and was on the lathe helping...
- Mike and Anna who wanted help turning down a piece of metal for a 3d printer
- Andy just was
2024-10-15 Tuesday
- Paul was investigating why his latest temperature sensor was working
- Deborah came to introduce Elizabeth to us and kindly went back to try to find a cable that was needed.
- Elizabeth came for some help with her pi; which personalises the experience for an ID room
- Haysam came to take the zombie to the new home, nice to see him after a long absence
- Andrew was battling with the geetech
- IanM was being generally helpful to Elizabeth and others
- Andy was battling with routers and trying asking for help with a dead motherboard
2024-10-08 Tuesday
- Leo kindly came to setup octoprint with the prusa printer he kindly donated
- Mark came to prototype some cases for some interesting dev boards on the laser
- Kevin was looking at refurbishing some speakers with new speaker cloth, with a little help from IanM, getting the old sticky stuff off
- IanM was wrestling DLL hell on his Win10 netbook to find out why Python wasn't working with pyusb and Adafruit Blinka to talk to a CJMCU-232H on his main PC - Solved 2024-10-19 - move %SystemRoot%\system32 to near the beginning of the PATH so libftdi doesn't try to use an out of date libusb0.dll instead of the libusb-win32 v1.4 one installed with the filter driver!
- Andrew was playing with the geetech, getting the software working on the new ubuntu install
- Andy was battling with various bits of tech
2024-10-01 Tuesday
After a hiatus, we're hoping to start the blog again, when we remember
- IanM installed a 3D printed housing part into the lathe to help prevent swarf getting into the control box and blowing up the control board
- Feargus was cutting some intricate card designs on the laser and getting his speeds and power dialled in
- Andy was rebuilding the laser PC and the Geetech PC with a newer version of Ubuntu on the Geetech machine (3dprint.rml)
- Andrew was getting Prusa Slicer working on 3dprint.rml
- Nicholas and his dad, Tom, came to learn to use an oscilloscope, with IanM's help
2024-05-21 Tuesday
- Ian did a lathe induction for....
- Sencer C, who has ambitions to get a mini-lathe and convert it to CNC
- Andrew was trying to improve the Geetech 3d printer Z axis, so far unsuccessfully
2024-05-07 Tuesday
- Andy did an induction for....
- Tim who wanted to learn the lasercutter to make some architectural
- Jon came to lasercut some Austrian good sheds but and
- Ian was helping people
- Hazel was cutting some polarising film for an art project
- Andrew was helping the 3d printers
- Pierre was tempting at temperature sensor to sense some temperature
- Paul was working on a theatre radio transmitter
- Vic came to help move the CNC fix on
- came to visit us from Japan and have a look around
- Steve came and went but I didn't get to see what he was doing.
2024-04-30 Tuesday
Seems we have some missed weeks but here we go. A fairly quiet night
- Andrew was giving the Geetech 3D printer's power supply some attention
- Jane was making a table
- Ian was helping her and looking at the lathe
- Andy was catching up on some RML admin
- Joe came to do some lasercutting of some personalised key tabs
- Odd and Zhaleh nipped in to lasercut some pronoun badges
2024-04-23 Tuesday
- No one captured what we were doing this week sadly
2024-04-16 Tuesday
- No one captured what we were doing this week sadly
2024-04-9 Tuesday
- No one captured what we were doing this week sadly
2024-04-2 Tuesday
- No one captured what we were doing this week sadly
2024-03-26 Tuesday
- David came to visit us for the first time and printed a case for his LORA device
- Andrew was looking at 3D printers, helped David and looked at his Pi Camera
- Steve was fixing an alarm clock/radio successfully
- Ian was ably helping Steve and later, diagnosing the blown lathe speed control board
- Paul was coding
- Andy popped in after shooting but went home to get dry
2024-03-19 Tuesday
- Phillip came the first time and was shown how to use the Laser
- David returned for his second visit to finish his branch lopper
- Alfia and Raff come alongs to look at engraving some metal with mixed results
- Ananth was looking at a CO2 sensor ably aided by
- Paul who was sharing electronics knowledge as always
- Mark popped by to say hello and be frustrated by his fiddly electonics
- Ian decided to blow up our lathe for fun, but has a plan to fix it as always
- Andrew was working on the 3d Printers
- Andy did an induction and wrote this, all errors mine
- Kevin came to trying lathing but was sadly out of luck
- Vic was using the drill press to create a frame for his home CNC
2024-03-12 Tuesday
- Andy came to see us after a long time away to say hello
- Steve was playing with batteries again and also with an alenco set.
- Pierre was seeing if he can get his PTZ camera to move
- Paul was getting frustrated at LED strips online
- Andrew was playing with an LED Matrix on Pi Pico
- Mark came to display hardware that wasn't needed and is currently flummoxed over.
- Ananth trying to get a C02 sensor working and trying understand what Mark is talking about
- Ian was teaching the lathe to...
- Kevin who showed his machining chops on our little lathe
- Andy came to say hello after shooting
2024-03-05 Tuesday
This may be a lost week but we had some regulars and some new people coming after an article in a Ham magazine.
2024-02-27 Tuesday
- Steve was rescuing batteries from discarded vapes to use in projects and helping...
- Andy working out the hand plane and welcoming people
- Ben was doing some trying to remove some components from an electronics board
- Elliot was designing and lasercutting some pieces for gaming
- David came to visit us for the first time with a branch lopper that was in need of repair ably helped by...
- IanM who also helped with general advice and looked at the wood CNC, conclusion is shielding the mains to the spindle is a good first step
- Janet is visiting the UK for a few months and came to visit us, looking at programming a FGPA board with a pico
- Rich was attempting to get Rust onto some lora boards
- Andrew was making more progress with the geetech 3D printer.
- Pierre continued to make his PTZ camera
2024-02-20 Tuesday
- Pierre continued with his PTZ mount build, with a laser cut frame on top of a 'Lasy Susan' for rotation and an axle turned down at the ends to fit the bearings which eventually carry the tilting part
- IanM was helping people again and introduced Pierre to turning steel on the lathe
- Steve was working on some faulty DC-DC converter modules
- Ananth was examining his previous soldering and making some improvements
- Andrew was helping people with 3d printers including
- Mark came to print a mount for his diving project
- Mat came to 3d print a clasp and do some more designing for the next thing
- AndyH was helping
2024-02-13 Tuesday
- Pierre is designing a PTZ camera mount
- Mark has joined the throngs of the laser cutters
- MarkQ came to do some laser cutting
- Andrew journey to fix all the 3d printers continues
- IanM was helping people and doing some lathe work
- Steve continues fixing his light
- Andy opened and did some marquetry
2024-02-06 Tuesday
- BenF was laser cutting some signs
- Steve is repairing a shed light powered by a solar panel
- Andrew was fixing 3d printer
- AndyH opened and ran before the road was closed
- ChrisN was 3d printing some more train pillars
- Ian.M was
- PaulE was coding
2024-01-30 Tuesday
- Andrew was learning how to setup a raspberry pi, assisted by Andrew
- Chris was continuing some 3d printing and working with Fusion 360
- Mat came to see us and started learning Fusion 360
- Pierre came to learn the lasercutter
- Steve was mending a light and looking at fixing a battery, also helping...
- Kev with some soldering
- Andy did some inductions on the laser for 3 people and gave some limited hints on Fusion
- Andrew was looking at 3d printing and helping setup the Pi
- Paul was coding
2024-01-23 Tuesday
Regulars: Paul E, Andy, Andrew, IanM
- Garret came along and was good to see him, looked at fixing a calculator
- Andrew and his son came along for the
- Chris came for the first time and we showed him some 3d printing
2024-01-16 Tuesday
Regulars: Paul E, Martin, Andrew
- Anand - CO2 sensor
- Mark - intro to laser cutter
- David - laser engraving, kartcher cleaner that doesn't run
- Cath M - dehumidifier that needs fixing
2024-01-09 Tuesday
- Andy opened
- Regulars: Ian M, Andrew, Martin, Paul E
- Steve - assisted a soldering task
- Peter - came for inspiration on a project
- David - laser cutting plywood for a box
- Wendy and Deborah - had a steam cleaner that needed fixing
- Anand - soldering headers on more boards
- Lucas and Zac - introduction to 3D printing
- Catherine - introduction to 3D printing
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