I just went home for about an hour, and returned with the following:

Seven cans of dr pepper
A bag of pistachios
Oregon Chai
A block of cheese
Tortillas
A toaster oven
Two eggs
Waffle mix
A waffle iron
An electric mixer
A coffee grinder
A costco bag of coffee
A quart of 2% milk
Slippers
Pajama pants
and a blanket.

...that's not a good sign.

I am the for loop.

There's one thing that seems nearly thematic in my current project: repetition.

This is a side effect of the modular design I'm really proud of across the board in this project, but at the same time it's making the assembly portion of fabrication really repetitive.

Some examples:



There are 64 pieces of chipboard in this project, each with a 17" long strip of aluminum tape running up their center. Each piece is then taped into a grid, with cat 5 cables shared among every eight panels.



When I designed all the acrylic pieces for the pulley system, I designed it around an interchangeable system of pieces. Six pieces combine to make 1 part, there are 32 parts in this system, meaning that I cut 192 pieces (not including extras, or the pulleys). Cutting took ~30 minutes (well, an hour, but that's because I had to do it twice), assembling them was another story all together.


Review prep checklist:
[19/64] Strip Cat 5 cables + Glue them to the panels with conductive epoxy
[ ] Assemble flooring
[ ] Attach Vc to flooring
[ ] Recut 1 servo-box
[ ] Cut 2x 1' of threaded pipe
[ ] Attach pulley rig to dimmers
[ ] Cut and crimp steel cable.

i++;

In most cultures...

a thin, sharp, piece of aluminum would be called "a knife." Still, because I've been calling it tape, I was really surprised when I just cut my finger.

...moron.

Bacon We Can

Saw this image on my desktop as I was cleaning it up and I realized I never got around to posting it. Can't believe it.

Bacon served by Bacolicio.us.

[via swissmiss]

Key to surviving on under 4 hours of sleep:

Drink a large coffee right before bed. Once the placebo effect of having just drank a large coffee wears off, you have a bit under 4 hours until the caffeine actually hits yourself and sends you flying out of bed at breakneck speeds.

It's actually kinda nice.

Some Assembly Required

The downside to laser cutting is that if you want undercuts, you basically have to create them as separate pieces and then laminate them together. The upside is that they look, and are, awesome.



Last leg of cutting is scheduled for tomorrow. Then I just have to cut the threaded rods down length and assemble.

"The secret to success is being able to make mistakes faster" - Stuart McFarlan <- yes