@Vermont@Masha turns a bench into a loom.@bird@Cleared a downed tree from the LaPlatte River, near Hack Club HQ@Captain Max Wofford@Going to cooking school@Learning FeatureScript, the internal scripting language for OnShape! It is HARD, but I'm making progress and my first feature is almost done. It's a tool for generating a specific kind of mate I designed for joining 3D printed parts with steel pins. Creating this mate would be a complex operation with dozens of steps if done manually, but using FeatureScript I can make it a one-click operation ^_^@Making mega-progress on the SineRider 1.0 level editor@Pretending I know how to golf with Tomcat Sanderson@we did it reddit@Printed V1. Decided I wanted everything bigger and stronger in case of high winds. So I made some adjustments and printed V2 on the right. Installing it today!@well this was super weird to see in a video because I was, literally, just asking myself this question...@sliced and ready to print@Made a few adjustments@Put something together in OnShape. This took me maybe 20 minutes. I’m finally gittin gud!!@So I still have these flags… but no flagpole mounts. I left those screwed on to the bouncy castle 🤔@Found this old gem from a couple months ago. I think we just smashed it by hand after a couple more drops.@Progress on the aerial anchor plate! Now it is in OnShape instead of Sketchup@aight screw it I missed the boat on this challenge when it launched but now I’m gonna do… 19 days!! My one big goal is to finish this CAD project I started for a friend, who wants an anchor in her apartment ceiling for training aerial performance.@Did a mind-numbing amount of sanding last weekend to put a finish on this live-edge slice of black walnut for a table. Band-sanded with 80 grit sandpaper, then a random orbital sander at 100, 180, 240, 320, and 400 grit, then 3 coats of boiled linseed oil over the course of 2 days, then a final coat sanded in with 600 grit, and finally hand-sanded with 1500 grit for a satin sheen.@this has to be the craziest fastener I’ve ever seen@smoke and mirrors@got some new safety glasses@Friend of mine bought this ridonkulous custom-converted electric car for like a few thousand dollars@Some (still unedited) photos I took on a recent boat camping trip@Once I knew the exact structure of the ceiling I could do these much more detailed models of the steel anchor frames. We designed the single-crossbar version first, but will probably go with the the square version. They will be held up there by 3/8”x8” lag screws. I used an online structural engineering fastener load calculator to calculate a load rating of about 750lbs per screw. So with 8 of those screws, that square design will be rated for 6000lbs!@Had to drill holes in the ceiling to figure out what exactly we can anchor to in this apartment. It’s an old converted industrial building (used to be a Wonderbread bakery lol) so it turns out the ceiling is basically solid lumber under the drywall, unlike a normal modern building which would be lumber joists every 16 inches. This is great because it means we will have a much easier time fastening the extremely safety-critical steel anchor frames up there.@Modeled the apartment in Sketchup and brought it into Unity, which will help us prototype things like lighting and camera angles@Helping my friend design an aerial performance and recording setup for her new apartment. The thing hanging from the ceiling is a cube because she designs/fabricates/welds her own aerial performance apparatuses, one of which is a cube@Kiwi enjoying his new catio@Order has been restored to the bathroom@Printed two of them. One for me, one for my housemate@Did something super quick in sketchup. There are holes in the bottom to make sure any water drains out@Have been bummed about this bathroom sink situation for months now. Hate having all this stuff cluttered on the sink.@Cut the mural down a bit on the top and bottom and sealed it with a spray can of polyurethane@We built the shed!@This mural was floating around the dirty Box Shop for probably at least a year, so I scrubbed it with a power drill brush to get all the grime off. Then I rinsed it down with a pressure washer. Important to keep the pressure washer at least like a foot away to avoid damaging the paint.@Found this abandoned mural on some scrap plywood in the box shop. Going to trim it down and put it up in my friend’s apartment@Little House on the Prius
(we bought a shed for the back of the compound)@My friend needed a kitchen counter, so I bought a broken coffee table for $10, saved the hardwood top, sanded it, rounded the corners, stained it, and we put it on this old dresser. Not bad for scrap materials and a few hours@My housemate got picked up in this the other day@kiwi@Making a catio for Kiwi at the compound@Castle before launching@Last weekend I did a camping trip with my friends where the theme was "Bring Every Vehicle". We brought my Prius, a RAV4, a Subaru Outback, 2 razor scooters, a stand-up paddleboard, a pair of off-road motorcycles, my boat, and an airplane! Here are some of my favorite photos from the trip:@It worked!!!@So far so good! Headed off to Clear Lake. If this works, we will have a working solution for transporting the tender vessel for the bouncy castle (aka Castle Bravo)!@So far so good! Headed off to Clear Lake. If this works, we will have a working solution for transporting the tender vessel for the bouncy castle (aka Castle Bravo)!@Last night I built this crazy rack system to transport my boat on top of my car. Tonight I will find out if it works!@Time to clean the castle!@I made a floating motorized bouncy castle. Will be talking more about this project in #mr-cwalkers-wild-ride for those who are interested@Just picked up 70 empty vanilla flavoring jugs today. Car smells great.
Remember everyone: ALWAYS REDUNDANTLY SECURE YOUR LOADS. You can never have enough ratchet straps. And check them as you drive! During one of my checks today, I discovered the temperature drop after sunset caused the containers to shrink a bit, loosening the straps. Never would’ve been able to anticipate that!@Had a bit of a revelation: I can 3D print my own woodworking jigs! This is amazing!!@Progress…@Progress…@Planning session last week@I did it 😌
Any guesses what I’m doing with this thing?@Just picked up three 55gal water drums. On my way to get a fourth.
Note the arrangement of straps: using 3 straps, every barrel is redundantly secured. If any single strap fails, the barrels all stay on. Always safely secure your loads, it is a life-or-death matter for drivers behind you!@Skid plate is on! Forgot to take a “before” photo but basically it was a bunch of trashed, hanging bits of plastic from all the damage I’ve done taking this car where it doesn’t belong.@Just got a bunch of badass new hardware from my buddy Eric at PriusOffroad. This is going to enable an awesome new project I’m super excited to tell you all about ^_^@Handstands are great@This message contains interactive elements.@This message contains interactive elements.@Glasses gang@Friendsgiving under the dish@dad@good things happening in the sinerider world@scenery by @Aileen@Also @Aileen had the totally genius idea to put a snowghost in the Western Slopes. @DarlaRM-U02QM0H2V96@cadova-U02PV3QL9FY we’re gonna need an asset for this 👀 @Elder kara in progress@@dr.blobbles is absolutely killing it with this sunset right now.@@Elder Joseph@Elder Becc@Bought and modified some new earmuffs in honor of Roe@Elder Darla@Amada. Badass nurse by day, badass artist by night. Maximum badass.@Darien and Charlie with their itty-bitty 1:4-scale flower maquette@Anya lights up our creation <3@My club meeting last night@Elder 3 (Neel)@Bending pipe in the shop@@lachlanjc next to a part of my sculpture@Elder #2 (this one’s named Neel)@bus@Fire testing part of our sculpture@Teaching my team to use the plasma cutter@Drone photo from an event at my studio today@From a mural I did in Washington a few months back@root system@Plasma cuttin@The first of eleven Elders for my sculpture. Still WIP@Built a jig to align the two big loopy roots on each Elder@roots@$33,053@wednesday@ALL-FUN!@@Today I got a CAT B35 with KaiOS. This phone and operating system are amazing. This is the future for the billions of people in the world still locked out of the smartphone market by the high price of entry, low durability, wastefulness, short battery life, complexity, unhackability, and general presumption of wealth endemic to the Android/Apple hardware ecosystems.@I'm so happy that people are taking my stupid wacky off-the-cuff written copy seriously enough to post it here ^_^@*GPARDY!*@Maple SapPart Deux:
End of the Line@If you've ever wondered how they harvest sap for large maple syrup operations…@Goin' camping@Meanwhile, above the golf course@Just a month after its inception, the Chenyang family garden is off the hook.@Not the happiest feature, but I just finished the command that we use to reject applications for hardware grants! I've been putting this one off because I don't like rejecting people :(@2 months ago @sampoder tagged me in a message.@I gave you life Vera, and you betrayed me.