Posting’s been slow lately, I hope to bring everyone up to date on recent progress soon. The first topic is that we said bye to the good old Prius and upgraded our transportation. The Prius has been an excellent car, but its versatility dropped a lot when you always have the child seat strapped into …
After designing the circuit board, I thought I would get back to glassing but nothing got done on that end before all the components and the circuit boards arrived. I’ve soldered surface-mount boards before using the “smear flux everywhere and touch the pins with the solder iron” method, which works but is pretty slow and …
Lately, the glass work on the physical box has been on pause since I realized I needed to work out what the connections to all the sensors is going to look like. To work out the electronics, I buckled down and started designing the circuit board. I had a vague notion of what it needed …
After glassing the cover for the dehumidification channel, I needed to mount the thermoelectric cooler. Small tasks are best now…. The hole fit pretty well, there’s a bit of clearance but I’ll seal this up with some silicone when mounting the cooler for real. On the outside, I had to drill and tap the holes …
I’ve been distracted by things like trying to find toilet paper (seriously, people) but I’ve been trying to make a little progress on the filament storage box. Since the last post, I mounted the fan that will push air over the cold plate for dehumidification. It fit pretty well in the hole I made, but …
More progress on the filament storage box. All 5 sides of the box have been glassed on at least one side, and the dehumidifier circuit side was completed. The layups for the air channel were a bit tricky compared to the flat sides I’ve done so far. Instead of just wetting out rectangular pieces of …
In the last post, I described the basic idea of the dehumidified filament storage box. I don’t have a lot of time to work on it, so progress is slow, but I’ve done a few layups. The back side is made from 2″ foam to give good insulation against the hot plate and maximum rigidity. …
As you may remember, my 3D printer is mostly used with Nylon or polycarbonate filaments, since those are strong and works to high temperatures. Unfortunately they’re also very hygroscopic, so they absorb moisture from the air (which we have a lot of here) and then you can’t really print with them without getting blobs and …
In the last post, I talked about the painting of the room. However, since we hustled to get the room habitable, we skipped the closets. Before the Swedish grandparents arrived for their visit this year, we wanted to get that done. As you may guess by now, this entailed first stripping a bunch of lead …
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Wow, posting’s really dropped off this year. Hard to get the time to do stuff, even harder to then actually write something about it. When we ended the last post, I was going to show you the room painting project that we continued with after replacing the windows. The first, and most painful task, as …