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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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Liz

So, this door and frame that came to us as joiner's scrap is turning out to be a phenomenal pile of wood. Here are three bits of the frame which seem more like iroko than mahogany, but it's tricky to tell. The grain is coarser, but otherwise similar. Very heavy. These are roughly 50 by 120mm, and about 600 to 900mm long. The frame was already cut, so there's not much that's longer, but it's all really good wood. My nephew's guitar is going to look great, at least!
#ReclaimedWood #Making

The picture shows three pieces of reclaimed wood from a door frame, all of which seem to be iroko. In the sunlight, the planed surface shows up as a golden brown, and one piece has a little bit of ripple. Apart from a few screw holes, they are tidying up into nice pieces of wood.
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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.
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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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