Category Archives: Miscellaneous

The magic of EDM machines

Posted on April 8, 2011 by smackaay

The other day we were asked to remove a section out of a valve. It’s not a huge valve but milling it would’ve been difficult all the way to the center so we put it on the EDM to blast … Continue reading →

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Playin’ with the Canon G12

Posted on November 1, 2010 by smackaay

This weekend I just purchased my new Canon G12. What a delightful camera. It’s robust, effective and just small enough to fit in a pocket (A big pocket) I’ve been re-inspired to start taking photographs again since I have a … Continue reading →

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Krebs to Poise Formula

Posted on September 4, 2009 by smackaay

Looking for a decent formula on the net for a Krebs to Poise conversion I’m left empty handed. I found a chart that had listed direct numerical conversions. Here’s the Best Fit value in the Quadratic form ax^2+bx+c=y y=0.00419037x^2+(-0.306745)x+6.40025 y=poise … Continue reading →

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3 point quadratic regression formula

Posted on April 29, 2009 by smackaay

While developing the in-process stormer viscometer, one of my goals is to allow the end user to calibrate the device with 3 fluids of known viscosity. With a bit of help from mathematica, I’ve found the formula and for whoever … Continue reading →

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Still goin’ at ‘er, now attending the self employment program

Posted on April 20, 2009 by smackaay

Well, no new project pictures or anything. Summer is almost here and I’m pretty happy about that. I’m going to start at a training course for 8 weeks starting May 11. The program itself is funded through the Canadian Government … Continue reading →

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A Drawing of a Servo, for reference.

Posted on April 10, 2009 by smackaay

Well, my servos have all come in for a project I’ve been working on. These ones being some cheap Chinese servos that I picked up off Ebay. Here’s a photo of one of them. Now that I have them I … Continue reading →

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Plastic Part Design

Posted on March 23, 2009 by smackaay

In short, I’ve finished the reverse engineering of an enclosure. It was more work than I expected but all of the draft angles check out and the drawing is workable for changes. Here are some pictures. whew! Doesn’t look like … Continue reading →

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Credos/Sayings that some people seem to live by…

Posted on February 11, 2009 by smackaay

“With low enough standards, you can achieve anything!” “If you aim for the ground, you’ll always hit the mark.” “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly and half way.” “If at first you don’t succeed. Lower, lower the bar.” … Continue reading →

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Playing around, drawing a valve.

Posted on January 7, 2009 by smackaay

I was a little bored today so I decided to draw a valve. While the dimensions are entirely drawn from my head and the valve itself wouldn’t be very efficient, I like the look of gas compressor valves. It took … Continue reading →

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A new Youtube video

Posted on November 16, 2008 by smackaay

Yes, I haven’t made a new youtube video in some time. Now the video I make is a redux of one I’ve made already, namely Doki Doki Panic. The reason I redid it was because the original wasn’t narrated. This … Continue reading →

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A look at some pictures from Saturday

Posted on October 27, 2008 by smackaay

On Saturday Oct 25, 2008 (In Edmonton AB of course) there was some snow and record winds. I figure it’d be fun to post some pictures from that day as well as some of the damage from afterward. Click on … Continue reading →

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Playing with the Gallery

Posted on October 21, 2008 by smackaay

Well, I’ve been thinking about deleting the gallery that’s been installed since I started this site. So far I haven’t even paid any attention to it since it recieves very little traffic and frankly, I don’t pay any attention to … Continue reading →

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Well, this is much nicer.

Posted on October 1, 2008 by smackaay

I’ve been looking around at various themes for wordpress. Being a fan of simple, straightforward designs, I picked Block2. Persoanlly, I like it better than the previous one, it’s very nice though I may change it over to some sort … Continue reading →

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Interesting thing about the U.S. mortgage crisis

Posted on September 24, 2008 by smackaay

Here’s an interesting audio tidbit I found about the US mortgage crisis. Well worth a listen (click “full episode”) http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1242 Listen, very informative.

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Updates and such…

Posted on September 21, 2008 by smackaay

So I’ve been working from home for a while and now I’ve moved all of my equipment to my place of work. I’ve been given a new office to work from and it seems promising so far. I’m also going … Continue reading →

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