Running from couch to 5k
I thought I’d write about my recent attempt to get a little healthier. I hate diets, and generally consider them a form of slow torture. So I was not at all interested in losing weight by kidding myself I’m going to get into a healthy eating habit. I’m writing this having just consumed a rather…
Customised Nerf Alpha Trooper Elite cs-12 inc. OrangeModWorks massacre kit
This is the last one. My addiction has to end before I wind up with a full armoury of nerf guns. However, I decided to take this last one as far as I could go.
Custom paint job for a Nerf sharpshot
This weekend I spent some time reading about the amazing world of nerf gun modding and general prop painting. Turns out that people not only paint them with amazing designs, but there is also a healthy selection of improvements that can be made to the mechanical workings. to improve the range of the gun.
DIY CNC Router – Making my first thing! an Arduino Uno box
If you have been following along at home, then you’ll know that last time I had a successful attempt at engraving a sign. With one main caveat. The backlash on the x-axis was still evident and ran to about 2mm.
DIY CNC Router – successful sign cutting test.
Woo hoo! Today I had what I’m categorising as my first full on successful run though a whole sign engrave program.
DIY CNC Router – Binding and Backlash – a journey of discovery
Pretty much since the first time I turned on my CNC machine I became familiar with the term ‘binding’. The various axis had points where due to slight inaccuracies of construction the threaded rod was rubbing against something causing so much friction that the motor stalled.
DIY CNC Router – drilling and routing test 1
Last weekend was the first time I got my cnc router to do something recognisable. After some tuning I got it to plot out a simplified version of my blog logo, backwards…
DIY CNC Router – plotting test
This week I figured out what I needed to in order to send sensible gcode to my DIY CNC.