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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

It is for sitting...

After 3 days of trying to make the beams for the house we are going to build, we got sort of fed up with it, and decided we were going to make a chair (for it was missing in the place were the shopbot is)...
So we found some wood, and started cutting:



Again, as always, we had a lot of trouble converting files and stuff... before we were able to get it into some kind of format the shopbot would eat.
We then set the jog speed (speed it uses to move without cutting) too high, so it skipped a couple of steps, and fucked up our pieces.
But, since we are persistent, we actually finished our first real chair.

So lo and behold!



After that we continued making some pcb's with the modela...
Interesting fact here: in Holland we have been using copper clad boards that are too hard for the mills... so it not only makes the mills blunt, it also cuts less good.
I'll shortly post more detailed info about what stuff to use.
I myself made a LCD controller board you can see here:



It can write 'hello' on a LCD screen.
Cool eh?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

See how fast the surroundings get to you: the design of the chair looks absolutely nordic.

Keep up the good work.

Piet

Anonymous said...

Mr Windmiller, Best regards from les pays bas. It's a bit quiet around here, so i have all the time to file my tax reports. Boring and extremely mind boggling. I am fascinated by your experiences. It all seems to happen for you over there. Good! Now i'm going to give you a clue of how the following part of this night will be for me..... obZen just downloaded the bastard. Check it out and let me know how you feel about it. Your my only hope Obi Wan...

Cheerio! Jarg