I’m dumping these things in my “own” space to avoid polluting other spaces inadvertently. All are encouraged to use whatever is of value here for whatever purpose they see fit. The device involves the following ideas: The “heart” of the…
Improving the shaft drilling jig
I just released a video on an improved jig to drill holes through shafts. You can use such holes in combination with screws to secure wheels, pulleys or gears to shafts very securely. This is especially helpful because setscrews tend…
Overhead Camera Rig Build
I have a few videos planned that I think could benefit from overhead footage, so I built an overhead camera rig to make that possible. You watch the video of this build below. The rig is built out of a…
First gear design videos
Last week I posted the first video which covers how to design a basic gear. Yesterday I released the second video, about how to model compound gears, and how to add chamfers to gears. You can see both videos below.…
First creep tests completed
It took a long while, but a few weeks ago I finally removed the last bugs out of my force-extension machine’s code, and testing could commence. I focussed initially on creep, a phenomenon that occurs in the thermoplastics that we…
Voorkom lelijke blobs door goede combing instellingen
Een combing move is een snellere variant van een travel move. In sommige gevallen kunnen combing moves lelijke blobs en strings veroorzaken.