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Ok, I'm going to try an experiment. I usually don't post a lot, mainly because I wonder if people really care what I think, think about or do, but perhaps that's just #AutisticMasking. So for the next few days (I'm just starting my long weekend), I'm going to try to break out of that, and try posting about most things I'm doing and thinking.

Fair warning: if you usually find me boring, annoying or irrelevant, you might want to mute me now...

We'll see how it goes - how I feel about it and how exhausting or otherwise. I'll try to post about that too.

#ActuallyAutistic #Maker #Arduino #LaserCutting #Linux #FreeBSD #SelfHosting

[Edit: forgot #3dPrinting ]

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I also like doing stuff like this where a sketch solves for a messier relationship: here, two ball bearings are sandwiched on each side of a lasercut segment. The hole they both seat into takes into account the material thickness so they have a small gap left between and don't crash.

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I’m always a fan of having built in adjustment tools for things that need to be periodical adjusting. Needing to use the cabinet key to open the bottom door on these bigger laser machines has always bugged me. Finally decided to design and 3D print some knobs with built in triangular keys slots. Friction fit on the triangle so they can be removed if needed.

Apparently these triangular cabinet locks are not universal in the key size as the ones I made for the makerspace machine don't fit my own laser machine. So if you make your own, I would recommend doing some 5mm tall test prints of the cylinder with the triangular holes, all the way through, to fine tune the fit size. The corners of the triangles should be slightly rounded to give more room within the cylinder.