Well, the prototype gage is here and it seems to work reasonably well. I’ve given it extra travel over the old ones and it seems to have really nice, smooth action.
Here are some pics
Now to make some styluses and start shipping these things around the world!
It been some time since I’ve updated this blog. While I have designed and made quite a few things, it’s been at the very bottom of my list to update this blog. Anyways, here are a few things I’ve worked on or am working on.
New RTJ gage
So, in an effort to simplify the manufacturing and generalize the usage of the gage I have redesigned it. With 3/4″ of travel it will allow for the use of almost any attachment along with the balls that typically fit something like this.
Still will take some time to actually manufacture it but whatever.
A quick gage for a customer
These were commissioned from a customer for the quick checking of a particular size on a production job.
Nothing too spectacular there.
I’ve worked on a few other things such as the forklift safety system. This device was meant to be attached to the forklift and engage a horn when the forklift went to fast. It was completed but the company no longer required it.
Anyways, time to start some more interesting projects in the future.
I need to find out the pinout of a Mitutoyo Counter, well the encoders anyways. I wasn’t able to determine exactly which one was what but we’ll see.
When I do figure it out, I will post the pinout as best I know.
A quick post about nothing amazing but I found a site where there’s an interactive map showing the ages of the buildings. Very cool.
you can see it here
I found I kept making and drawing tile sets for little games I wanted to make and I found it time consuming. some engines require a bit of padding around each tile so that when the drawing is scaled, the next pixel isn’t shown from an adjacent tile.
I quickly wrote it in freebasic in under an hour, there’s an EXE in there too if you don’t want to use freebasic or look at the source. very little to it and everything is straightforward. The program will generate a blank tileset with both borders and internal padding indicators. I may write a program sometime that will automatically pad the tiles as needed from an existing set.
Get GenTiles zip here
Here are some png files that are generated by the program, you could use them directly if you want…
I just wanted to post this on the site for posterity.
Pretty cool methinks!
In my time making things for my YouTube channel, I’ve made a little series of videos detailing my creation of a crummy pong game. Fact of the matter is that I haven’t done some serious programming in some time so I needed to wet my whistle so to speak. You can play this game here. Quickie Pong!
So, for anyone who wants to view them, here are the videos for anyone’s perusal. Oct 1, 2016 is when the 3rd video is published so, if anyone cares, that’s when it is available.
Anyways, hopefully somebody enjoyed that. If not, you;re welcome to like and subscribe anyways!!! Again, go to my channel 🙂
I’ve decided to start a new Youtube channel simply because I feel as though adding my projects and the things that I like to a video channel will drive me in ways I hadn’t had before. Thus far, I have 0 subscribers (aside from myself) and I’m genuinely curious to see how well I can make a Youtube channel work out. I believe I have some interesting things to share and some boring but popular things to share as well and a new Youtube channel that explores all those things.
Here’s a link to the channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwxvlEKdkh9eV9qLXHBh3fw
Not the most graceful URL but I will get a better one once I get some subscribers and I’ve been around for a while. I will explore things that I do such as electronics, gaming, machining, photography and whatever else I come across.
Here’s a video detailing something mundane, my calculator collection.
So, feel free to look at my channel, subscribe and like a video or two. 🙂
Well, I was looking at my site and noticed that my last entry was November and it was the very project I’m starting to finish right now.
This is my Remote indicator. It’s a tool I developed after having found that standard indicators are a pain in the ass in some circumstances. While you can bash something together with off the shelf parts like say, a Mitutoyo digital dial and a SPC box, that option can be pretty expensive.
Now I’m going to start developing the next version while I test out this one. The next one will be slimmer, more efficient and more attractive. There will be an optional Infrared communication port for it so when it’s sitting inside a deep bore or whatever ,it can still be read.
Well, the first project out of my little skunkworks is ready for doing the electrical side now. here are some shots of the device.
It’s been a bit of work getting everything together but thanks to having a decent work space, I can finally let my ideas become reality.
My new office is filling up, now I need to move some of my test equipment in and start developing. Truth be told though, I have been developing some interesting things and soon I will post them here on the blog again. It’s been a while since I’ve felt like posting about the things I make but it’s always a good time to keep a good record of the things you do.
🙂
Just gonna post some of the WebGL Unity things I make as I make them. You can try them and tell me if they work or not. 🙂
I will add more as the days progress.