Aeroengineer1

Got to take a trip out to the Submarine Force Museum. I happened to take some videos of the subjects and thought to try using RealityScan to extract 3d models. I had low expectations given the color and lack of features, but I was happily surprised.

Who does not love McMasterCarr? Ordered Friday at 4:01PM Estimated delivery Monday Actual Delivery Saturday at 12:44PM This place is great. Still use my catalog, though mine is a little dated.

In today's what the heck does Adam do while on vacation adventure. Some FEMM action. Trying to reduce cross talk between two magnetic encoders in a tight space. The results show the difference between the magnets both pointing right, or being anti-aligned.

Please tell me that I am not the only one that goes on Aliexpress just to see what neat things that I had not even considered buying!

Perfect alignment every time. Upgraded my ComMarker B6 with a digital scale to take the guesswork out of defocusing. Use the focus cone to set true zero then dial in exact, perfectly repeatable offsets for color engraving. #LaserEngraving #3DPrinting #ComMarker #MOPA

Calibration complete. The first picture, I was dialing in the settings to make a mark light enough to get a nice distribution. I made an adjustment. I then checked my adjustments as shown in the second picture, and got it dialed in.

Built a focal calibration tool for my ComMarker B6 MOPA laser! 🎯 • Right: Level plane for quick coarse focus. • Left: 5mm sloped ramp with 50 divisions to micro-tune focus down to 0.1mm precision.

I wanted to bring some more precision and accuracy to doing color laser engraving with my ComMarker MOPA laser. I got a vertical axis digital scale to be able to calculate deltas more easily.

My son and I have been experimenting with the ComMarker B6 60W MOPA fiber laser today, working on...

And now the third Hesai Lidar is functional. This makes for one Hesai 64 and two 128's.

I have my second lidar up and running. This is the Hesai Pandar QT128 up and running. I had to use Wireshark to find the IP address of this one, but it is working very nicely.

Here in my local area they have created a fantastic commemorative park and pavilion of the decommissioned USS Cincinnati, a Los Angeles class attack submarine.

It is alive! Hesai PandarQT 64 LIDAR viewed through @kitware.bsky.social 's LidarView. I need to start playing with this more to see how I can do some mapping of large structures and what things influence the overall precision/accuracy of the measurement.

Anyone have experience with Velodyne Lidar unit repair? I have a VLP32C that I got of ebay. It spins up, my webcam can see the lasers shining on the walls, but it does not communicate over ethernet and there are no activity lights on the ethernet port.

Anyone have a favorite surface mount power module? Requirements: -SMD -No other components required for functionality (no resistors, external caps, filters, etc) -5v, 500-900mA output -12v input

What can you do for ~$3 in filament? Custom print a shelf to hold your NAS, Router, and Doorbell Base Station. Over Christmas break, I was able to clean up all of our wireless networking space such that it is a much cleaner installation and in a better location for speed and space utilization.

Am I the only one that uses drawing to maintain focus during classes or talks? I find it helps me to focus on what is being said while being able to ignore other outside distractions. This was my latest sketch of my Santa hat and an ornament on a wood floor.

Continuing with my concept development for an RC 1:72 @BMT_Defence SSGT submarine. I have found a clean path for wiring as well as making the fins and propulsor shroud separable. The only compromise is using externally visible fasteners for the shroud.

Today's efforts. BMT Defense SSGT concept had a rotor between structural components. Challenging for a 1:72 model! Needs to be: -Structural -Separable for assy and maintenance -Pass wires for control -Water tight Not a trivial task. Grey bar 1" x 5" (25.4mm x 127mm) for scale

Sometimes it is the small things. I was able to design cup and handheld scanner holders for forklifts for some friends. Here is the latest batch for them. About 18hr and 750g of ABS for two sets.

I am back on the microscope project. First up, putting the mount ring on the lens adaptor. It was ~ø1mm too big & needed a hole for the lens release button. 3D printed a shim & used my 60W fiber laser to cut through the ~5mm thick AL to expose the lens release button.

@hackadayofficial.bsky.social the hackaday.social site has not been working for me for a while now. I am not sure of the best way to report things being down except through a different social media site.

Working to get my Canon 100mm Macro lens working with the Pinefeat adaptor. So far so good. I have gotten through the calibration, now to get that into the file so that autofocus can work.

Can't say that I have seen this before. Upload much faster than download. Down is supposed to be a Mb connection, but something is up.