Does anybody know if there’s a traditional composite material that behaves something like fibreglass? As in fibre/fabric laid up in a binder of some sort to make a stiff material in arbitrary forms.
Paper mache is one but it’s too weak (I think, maybe there's a super version?). I'm considering things like cotton or flax in casein glue or pine resin... but I doubt it will work.
(And my last casein glue experiment stunk like rotten milk for weeks!)
Heyho Fediverse,
wie würdet ihr die Gründung eines Makerspaces/Reperaturcafés angehen? Einen Raum kann ich eventuell bekommen, Dinge dort zu lagern wird aber eher schwierig. Ich sehe hier die Notwendigkeit für so etwas, auch im Hinblick auf "Nachwuchsförderung".
Wie läuft da die Versicherung, wo und wie darf man Gelder sammeln, wer haftet wenn etwas Defektes trotz Arbeit und Material defekt bleibt oder wie nehme ich sowas aus?
Really, really, really still trying to find My People here on Mastodon. Am I on the wrong server or something? I'm a self-employed #artist / #maker / #writer ... I make #ceramics ( #pottery )... dye #yarn ... #knit ... read #sciencefiction ... have two #dogs and eleven #cats ... am a recent #widow who loves to talk about what a wild ride #grief is ... and I'm a #Floridian scared shitless for my #BiPOC and #lgbtqia friends and family. Is that enough tags? Hello? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
okay so I’m thinking if I put a 4x4 that’s like 55cm long (unlike this little stubby boi that I’m using as a placeholder) at the forward flat part of my bike cargo wagon, then…
i printed this solely as a size test object for certain measurements and those were right but it’s amazing how educational a physical object held in your hand can be
During @fosdem#FOSDEM kickoff on 2023-08-26 we built up a tent against the rain. The tent was old and the alumin[i]um poles and steel springs / locking nubs partially rusted away.
I have been walking around with metal shavings in both hands and almost all fingers ever since. It's driving me insane. How can I get them out? They are too small to see, glue, magnets, and pulling cream didn't work.
Version 4 Hybrid Dragon bike cargo hitch adapter. Substantially different to Version 3, obviously. This one accepts a U-shaped piece of bent metal rod that I already have.
The point of this one is that Version 3 is excellent but printing it in metal is hundreds of dollars.
Trading the pen for the laser: I'm going to try some of my #PenPlotter designs on a laser cutter soon. I think something like differential growth would work well since it's a single path and should provide a very interesting positive and negative in the material.
Here's an animation of how I build (err, growth) them.
Hey makers, hackers, and electronics folks of the fediverse, what’s your go-to small cheap dev board that ISN’T an ATmega (too small) or ESP32 (too cursed)? I’m asking because I’m writing a gadget-device framework in Rust, and would like to port it to the most popular dev boards.
This is a project for someone else, so I want to use existing hardware they can purchase replacements for easily, and not a custom thing I'm soldering up.
I used to use these all the time but they are 'retired' now:
I had forgotten that last winter my old snowthrower was having drive problems. So when the first snow hit a couple of weeks ago my snowthrower barely worked. I thought it only needed a simple adjustment, or maybe a belt, but it turned out that the driveshaft was worn out. The driveshaft is no longer available & nearly worn out ones sell for ~$200 on eBay. Since I have a lathe & welder, I made one. Fortunately, new fiction drive wheel assemblies are still available. Now it's good as new! #Maker