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chrishuck

@chrishuck@fosstodon.org

Mechanical Engineer, Cyclist, 3D modeling of all kinds, 3D printing, Linux, programmer. Believer in making things better for everyone

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chrishuck, to random
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A beautiful sunset in the neighborhood this evening after the storms passed.

chrishuck, to foss
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As both a fan, and a fan, I was inspired by the print linked below to create my own sign to show my support for the Crew on my desk at my office at work.

https://www.printables.com/model/155492-cleveland-guardians-logo

So, I fired up to make the SVG, and then to create the 3d model that I then 3D printed. I printed the yellow part separate and glued it in.

So glad to have such great tools to make ideas reality. Can’t forget and .

Screenshot of the Columbus Crew logo as modeled in FreeCAD. FreeCAD is running on MacOS.
Screenshot of the Columbus Crew logo as created in Inkscape. Inkscape is running on MacOS.
Photo of a portion of the Columbus Crew logo as 3d printed on the bed of a Prusa Mk3S+ 3d printer.

chrishuck,
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@reesecommabill Thank you! A ton of fun to make what we want to show off the things that make us happy.

chrishuck, to random
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Kind of proud that I was able to make the fans in my M3 MacBook Pro kick on because of what I was doing in .

chrishuck, (edited )
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@reprapryn I’m simply experimenting with creating toroidal helixes so that I can create 3d printed flower pots that look like woven baskets. My grandmother used to weave baskets and I have some flowers from her funeral that I’d like to repot into pots that look like baskets to remind me of her.

chrishuck, to 3DPrinting
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I’m glad that I have a good boss that has given me the week off after being out of town for 11 days to support a project at a chemical plant in Houston. This gives me time to catch up on all of the , , and bike maintenance that I couldn’t work on while I was there.

Also, this trip further reinforced why I’m very glad I live in .

chrishuck,
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@kbob Yeah. It was the first real day of the job and we took a minute in the plant to look through the eclipse glasses I had with me. We could tell the light dimmed and you could see it, but it was definitely not totality. My partner said she had the perfect spot on our back patio.

MLE_online, to random
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Plywood has been claimed. Sorry!

chrishuck,
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@MLE_online “Power Margaret” wouldn’t have fit on the packaging very well

nathans420, to ai
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AI generated yearbook

This is the future the tech bros want

#AI #AIGenerated #Meme

chrishuck,
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@nathans420 We all went to school with a Chunus or Jorch that had WAY too full beards for their age.

bear_lab, to 3DPrinting
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I wish we could find a better solution than grub screws for attaching pulleys to shafts in 3D printing. Small-scale requirements make it difficult to use other industrial systems.

Grub screws often loosen under the effect of vibration even with Loctite. They also introduce eccentricity. And the tip of the grub screws marks the shaft, making it difficult to remove the pulley.

Any idea how we could improve this?

@3dprinting

chrishuck,
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@bear_lab If you put a flat on the shaft for the set screw to push against, it won’t deform the round part of the shaft and it will provide a better transmission of torque that contacting the cylindrical surface. If you use the flat, use cup point or dog point screws instead of a cone point.

lewis, to random
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Ordered a massive pipe wrench to try and help remove a very seized seatpost (I don’t have a table vice), but then managed to get it unstuck before the wrench arrived so now I just like… have a pipe wrench that I’m almost certainly going to forget to return

chrishuck,
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@lewis At least you didn’t have to cut off the seat post and saw a slot with a hacksaw to get it out because it was corroded to the frame… I had to do that several years ago and it wasn’t very fun.

linux_mclinuxface, to random
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Stuck in the Denver airport for the next 4 hours. 😒

chrishuck,
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@linux_mclinuxface I had a better experience accessing CAD data via VPN on the airport WiFi in Toronto than I sometimes do in my actual office on the LAN 🤦‍♂️

caseyliss, to random
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The hurdles I'm jumping through to get Declan to be able to play on a Minecraft server that I'm hosting, using his Switch, are truly asinine.

This is user-hostile from top to bottom, inside and out.

And all this started because he put HOURS into building something locally on his switch that just ✨disappeared ✨.

chrishuck,
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@caseyliss Enshitify everything!! Especially for kids!

18+ schratze, to random
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There are now adult people walking around in the world who were born after youtube was launched

chrishuck,
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@schratze I remember hearing about YouTube’s launch on NPR and thinking: “I should check that out”

j, to random
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Welding welding WELDING

A partially completed steel welding table that I’m making

chrishuck,
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@j I guess we now know who welds the welding table.

mathowie, to random
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I know tech documentation is often subpar, and I’ve worked on software documentation before but now that I’m wrenching on cars more I had no idea how bad their documentation is.

Terrible how-to videos, ugly xeroxed photos you can’t make out, multiple steps omitted, no labels on parts in boxes.

I think the problem is that engineers designing the product don’t think like a normal person that doesn’t work there so they write instructions for themselves, people who are mechanical engineers.

chrishuck,
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@mathowie This is a chronic problem not only in the car industry. Some companies are good and have technical communication departments that specialize in creating documentation that works. Most companies just try to cut costs because they think engineers can also just make documents because they already have the 3D models and specs. While not all engineers are good at distilling things down, the real problem is the cheap accountants not budgeting for the documentation people.

MLE_online, to random
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It's going to be Flea Market Morning pretty soon here. I haven't been in the better part of a year. I wonder what I will find.

chrishuck,
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@MLE_online You could put those on Hobie so you can hear where he is when you can’t see him

chrishuck, to random
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I should clarify that I think that any advanced technology that looks like a shortcut, regardless of whether it’s finished or not, will be exploited by people that don’t understand it because they think it will make them money. When they do dumb or awful things with it, it makes the technology look bad regardless of whether it can be useful in the right hands. It’s why engineers don’t like “businesspeople”. They ruin everything.

From: @stevenrosenthal
https://mastodon.online/@stevenrosenthal/112226605753305748

concretedog, to random
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Slowly getting there with the prototype tracked drive system for . Needs further development but having movement is a milestone! Wheels and tracks designed in

A small robot rover with a yellow PCB chassis and 3D printed wheels and tracks trundles across a carpet and then over a wool rug.

chrishuck,
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@concretedog I imagine you’ve considered adding treads to the outside of the track too?

chrishuck,
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@concretedog Very cool! The best part about this is the ease of customization for whatever you need.

smellsofbikes, to random
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It's extremely windy outside, and they're forecasting up to 100mph gusts across the whole metro area. After the Marshall Fire in 2021, where several fires, one possibly from a downed powerline, swept through the western suburbs of Denver, driven by 70mph winds, it appears that the power company may be cutting power to some of the area, including where I live. This'll be interesting. Right now it sounds like a jet aircraft is running at idle just over the hill.

chrishuck,
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@smellsofbikes That’s basically a tornado

chrishuck, to random
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Even if you’re not a software developer, this is an excellent example of how to gather and parse feedback. Admitting that there are things that can be improved is normal, but so is explaining why a specific request or complaint isn’t actionable. Listening to users of your stuff builds good will. As a user, offering specific feedback also builds good will. “It sucks.” is not actionable.

Great video, Martin!

From: @doctormo
https://floss.social/@doctormo/112224582967155477

MLE_online, to random
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Still no sign of my Hobie. My heart is breaking

chrishuck,
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@MLE_online If only they could talk, eh?

chrishuck, to cycling
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Coffee-getter

chrishuck,
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@normand They’re actually 27”, but I’ll have to check the width when I get home. They’re at least 25mm wide. The handlebars are mustache bars made by Soma. This is totally my beater bike for errands and easy cruising. I really need to switch the drivetrain to modern indexed shifting instead of the friction shifters that are so frustrating.

chrishuck,
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@normand It’s actually 27.5”. A typo on my part. It’s a pretty solid bike. I had a steel Miyata before that was a fixed gear commuter bike. Those small steel tubes definitely flex more than my carbon cyclocross bikes!

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