I went kayaking for my third time ever, first of this year. It was fun, the lake was nice with very little wind. I was solo and a little nervous but I took safety precautions and it all worked out.
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I've been messing around with Meshtastic radios. I built two different radios from kits, loaded the firmware, and configured them. I also upgraded the battery on a different radio. All of which sounds a lot more impressive than it is. You just have to plug in a few cables, then snap it into the case. It was still interesting, and now I have more radios to play with.
This week is and will continue to be a hobby black hole... Sunday morning I am going to a local tech flea market to try and offload a ton of superfluous crap I've accumulated since I went and sold a bunch of crap last year lol. Laptops, the spare 3D printer I don't use, random electronic gizmos, the works...It's all currently in a massive pile in my kitchen. It's been a ton of work to curate and price everything, and I can tell that it's going to come down to the wire.
Once that's passed, though, I want to get back to the art project I was working on, I want to try and print Moire interference patterns with 3-d printed "wood"block rollers. That, and working on actually starting up my homelab and diving into that world.
Wow, I never knew that phenomenon had a name! It's really cool!! If your plan works, will you post a picture of it somewhere? Also would you mind if I tried it in my library makerspace, think they'd really like that.
I couldn't possibly mind, go for it! I stumbled across an album cover with the effect (Trails by The Floating Mountain Band, 29 minutes of interesting ambient) a while back and thought "Huh, that's really cool, I wonder if I could make some...", and squirreled the idea away for another day. It is very similar to the other art I already have on my walls.
I am working on trying to see how small of a line pattern I can get with various printer nozzles. The best results are with the 0.2mm nozzle, but printing the whole roller I want (3" in diameter, 4" wide), is going to take over 24 hours to print. I have a roller designed for 0.4mm nozzles, and I just need to print it and try it out. I'm trying to figure out what kind of ink and paper would work good. I'm thinking I might need some kind of soft rubber mat to lay the paper on, as a hard plastic roller won't do a great job of transferring ink to a hard, stiff surface like paper on a tabletop. I got some cheap water-based paint that I am going to thin out a bit with some water just to test, I have NO idea how that will turn out haha.
I will definitely make a post about it somewhere when I get some kind of satisfactory result! I'll probably post at least the simple roller model for others to print.
Maybe a dual extrusion printer, to do the fine parts in a small nozzle and the rest in a big one? I've tried using TPU and flexy PHA for stamps and didn't get good ink transfer with them, although some people have. A rubber mat underneath is a great idea! Alternatively, lasering/CNCing rubber is not super difficult and works well for stamps. This is a neat project, can't wait to see it!
Drawing mostly!! This week I ended up going out a lot more than usual (not in a bad way! Had an aunt I hadn't seen in 10+ years come visit so we hung out a bit) so I haven't had much time for it haha but it's okay because I'm still having fun! I'm also still studying Japanese but haven't been doing as much immersion as I'd like... I always have my 3DS on my desk but whenever I think about opening Pokemon Alpha Sapphire I just realise I'd rather draw instead lol. I think once I finish my current project I'll go all in on playing videogames and watching anime for a while
I got my workbench finished mostly. Been stuck for literally years planning how to incorporate my power tools. Decided to stop worrying and just make a flat top. Done in a few hours.
I still wish I had built in my table saw or miter saw, but I don't want to look at a half-built table for five more years.
My RC airplane had a mechanical failure the last time I flew it. The throttle servo stopped working. I ordered a new servo and installed it yesterday. I also updated the firmware on my transmitter and receiver (FrSky X18SE and FrSky Archer Plus SR10+ respectively). The firmware update made it so I had to reset some of the control limits, but it's all back to normal now.
Nice weather today so I'm heading to the field to test it all out.
I used to be big into the foam-board electric planes a bunch of years ago. Loved building one in an afternoon, flying it, crashing it, fixing it, building another one out of $4 of foam board when the old one got too squishy... I used to fly almost exclusively the FT Bloody Wonder, I could almost cut a new one out by heart.
I'm always tempted to fly again, but I just have SO many hobbies and so little space. I would have to hang them from the ceiling in my living room or something... Honestly wouldn't be the worst thing.
What airframe(s) do you fly?
That does indeed look a little too squishy!
This one's a 74" Extreme Flight Laser. It's a blast. It was a busy day at the field but I got 3 flights in today.
I also have an E-Flight Ultimate 3D for days I don't want to mess with the big noisy gas airplane.
I've always wanted a trainer with a buddy box to teach other people how to fly, and got a SIG Kadet LT-40 ARF in the mail today. I have a young one who's too young to fly it, but he's pretty excited to help put it together.
I've always been so impressed with those large planes! My dad used to take my brother and I to a flying field when we were younger just to watch.
I'm much too anxious a person in general to fly something so large and complex. The foam was perfect for me haha. It was also easy to teach people how to fly, I'd just hand the transmitter to people. That's how I got my dad into it, he's still flying occasionally these days.
That Kadet is such a classic, classic design. If you were to take an average of every RC plane ever flown, it'd probably look exactly like that.
Yeah, I love the Kadet. SIG was inactive for a long time but just restarted operations so you can buy a lot of their classic kits and ARFs on their website again.
I had a Kadet LT-40 kit that I built when I was in high school, but I stopped when I got to the step of covering it, so it never got finished. So this model has some nostalgia for me. It'll be electric and have plenty of power, so I imagine even an intermediate pilot like myself can still have fun with it.
Mostly banging my head against the wall trying to learn nalbinding, and then giving up on that (for now) and tatting instead lol. Got some AMAZING hand-dyed cordonnet from @[email protected] to work with. I'm gonn try celtic tatting it into something simple with lots of split rings and no picots.