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Long time no post. Machining and trying to get back on my feet.
Well, it has been some time since I posted, about a month and a half or so. There have a been a number of events that have occurred in that time that have both beneficial yet disappointing. I’m not really … Continue reading
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Tagged dot peen, electronics, haas, machining, machinist, marking
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A crummy little servo tester and other minutia
The little servo tester Well, I needed a way to test all of these servos I got from EBay and I decided to spend a little time making a quick and dirty little board for doing that. It uses a … Continue reading
Posted in Electronics, Personal Projects, Work
Tagged diy, FAT, File Allocation table, pic12f683, RC servo, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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Viscometer board proceeding, some RS232 fun.
Well, things have been proceeding apace, and I’m feeling pretty confident that I’ll have both versions done fairly soon. For debugging the device I’ve decided to create a kind of terminal, this allows one to directly access commands and see … Continue reading
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Tagged diy viscometer, pic18f4680, process viscometer, prototype, rs232, Stormer viscometer
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Stormer Viscometer Grams to Oz-Inch Conversion
Trying to make sense of the standard stormer viscometer and methods that could be used to calibrate a device, I’ve been looking at the original stormer viscometer in order to get an idea of what ‘grams’ actually means in the … Continue reading
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Tagged conversion, grams, krebs, oz-inches, Stormer viscometer, torque
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Grams to Krebs conversion formulae
After many a day scratching my head as to why I can’t get my viscometer to calibrate correctly, even assuming logarithmic and quadratic relationships, I find out why I have been having so many problems. Krebs units are in not … Continue reading
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Tagged conversion, grams, grams to krebs, krebs, Stormer viscometer
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Working on new viscometer head
Well, I’ve been designing some new stuff since having a little wind of inspiration. This head weighs in at about 700g and provisions have been made to allow an attachment to a handle and therefore a hand-held version could be … Continue reading
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Tagged engineering, sensor, Stormer, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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Quick post, a couple of drawings.
The chill is in the air, October is here. I’ve been pretty busy with the viscometer and some other things, however I drew a couple of objects just for future reference. I figured somebody might need the dimensions of either … Continue reading
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Tagged drawings, pdf, qy-2004a, stormer paddle
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Getting closer to final completion
A long road behind and still some ahead, here are some pic of the viscometer in its state of completion. Now to implement the ModBUS protocol and finish up this project.
Posted in Electronics, Programming, Work
Tagged diy, diy viscometer, process viscometer, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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In-Process Stormer Viscometer – Damn near complete
The viscometer is nearing full completion! YAY! To mark this occasion to mark the end of a long two years, I am placing a small gallery of the almost finished product. The only thing missing is the outside cover which … Continue reading
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Tagged completed, diy, diy viscometer, paddles, pic18f4685, pictures, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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FDM Part Prototyping
This post is simply to show how neat the FDM process is. FDM stands for Fused Deposition Modeling and is a neat tool for prototyping plastic parts. I was able to see the results of FDM after a customer had … Continue reading
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Tagged electrical enclosure, enclosure mold, fdm, fused deposition modeling, plastic
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Programming, Drafting, Designing and whatever else…
Well, it’s been a busy few weeks since I left the business training program. Thankfully I have some work lined up and things may go well for the short-term. For the last while I was working on the design for … Continue reading
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Tagged enclosure, fdm, mold design, plastic, viscometer, Work
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A quick post about my website.
I’ve finally had some time to put together my website for my business. 8mtech.com is online and has most of the pages complete. I’ve decided to keep the layout very simple and I’ll eventually flesh out the theme a little … Continue reading
Time’s a passin’ – DIY Arms, Music, and invention
Well, the past few weeks have been eventful and interesting. I’ve been busy and school is almost over. I’ve had a few things on the go and I’ve come up with some interesting ideas and implementations. Sorry for the lack … Continue reading
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Tagged accelerometer, business, camera level, invention, measuring arm
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Rotary Viscometer almost finished
Well, it’s been a long road but I’m almost at the finish line in terms of the majority of development. All of the parts are mostly made and I’ll begin programming very soon, most of which has been done already … Continue reading
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Tagged phenolic base, rotary viscometer, rotational, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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3 point quadratic regression formula
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
Posted in Electronics, Miscellaneous, Work
Tagged 3 point, cubic, data set, freebasic, in-process, inverse, quadratic, regression, Stormer, viscometer
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Viscometer Project, coming along…
I thought I would have nothing to post but I do I guess. I’ve felt the need to really expedite this project now that I am starting a business. I have done a few of the mechanical things associated with … Continue reading
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Tagged machining, mackaay, pcb, rotary viscometer, rotational viscometer, viscometer
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Still goin’ at ‘er, now attending the self employment program
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
Posted in Miscellaneous, Personal Projects, Work
Tagged canada, ei, microbusiness, self employment program
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Viscometer Ver.(Eleventy Billion Jillion) a la rotational
Well, this has a been a long few days of work. I have created the ideal rotary viscometer in both terms of price and repeatability. Now, this idea is nothing new but I’m simply happy that it works. I guess … Continue reading
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Tagged diy, electronics, pic18f2620, rotary viscometer, Stormer, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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Working on the new rotary viscometer
Been working on a new version of the rotary viscometer, after many design changes, the result is this. A rotary viscometer bridged with a rotary reaction strain gage. Guess it’ll work. Here are some pictures. I’d say a bit more … Continue reading
Stuff about sensors, a quick post.
Well, I’ve been looking around at torque sensors and found some interesting information. For one though, they are NOT cheap. Keep in mind that these are higher sensitivity sensors but it doesn’t seem to have an overwhelming bearing on the … Continue reading
Posted in Electronics, Other/misc, Work
Tagged rotary torque sensor, sensor, strain gage, torque
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Complete 180, well, perhaps 90.
So, after doing a bunch of work on the rotary strain gage it’s been declared incorrect. Oh well. Here’s the new concept, although not my own idea, were going to rebuild the entire concept around the notion of a dynomometer. … Continue reading
Rotary Strain Gage update
Well, it’s been a little while since the last update, I suppose I should have stated something sooner. So far, the device seems to work but now I have mechanical problems. Friction on the top is preventing the load from … Continue reading
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Tagged rotary viscometer, Stormer, Stormer viscometer, strain, viscometer
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Viscometer Rotary Strain Gage update
It hasn’t been long since my last update about this thing but I’ve made some progress as far as making the unit into a single board. I simply used the AD7705B as I suspected it work work great for this … Continue reading
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Tagged electronics, rotary viscometer, sensor, Stormer viscometer, transducer
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The Rotary Torque Sensor… continued
Well, so far, so good. That’s all I can say at the moment. The rotary gage is operational, though it hasn’t had brushes made for it and it seems to output a reasonable amount of voltage difference based on displacement. … Continue reading
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Tagged rotary viscometer, sensor, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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Been almost 2 years at Endura
Now that It’s coming up on two years at the place I work, I was looking through some of the drawings. I figured it’d be fun to post some of them. I’ll simply place a gallery here, click the images … Continue reading