loving the work bench ........ Never trust a dude with a clean bench ,,,,,,,,,
That's good to know. My workbench is a swamp, it got so bad that I built a second workbench to get a clean start, but the inevitable happened and I now need to clean up two workbenches.
When your building robots while watching movies about robots.
Hmmm.. Robot Geek Checklist time..
* workbench covered by parts, electronics, and tools (check)
* partially built robot on bench (check)
* robot magazine on bench (check)
* robot movie playing (check)
Which movie is it?
(Some are more geek than others... )
Workbench?
There's my desk in my 'office' but that barely has space for my keyboard...
(And besides, the room is so full of computers, tech books, a 1:4 scale sailboat made of cardboard, R/C Gliders and who knows what else, that it's barely standing room in there.)
My kitchen table is full of books, soldering equipment and laptop(well, 2/3 of it, the rest overhangs the edge. fingers crossed... )
Which means that my Prusa Mendel(still in need of final calibration) and partially built ShapeOko CnC-mill lives on top of my freezer...
No, geek is measured by what kind of reading material you have on your bedside table.
Mine has:
Kindle with lots of Sci-fi, Fantasy and Terry Pratchett books.
Haynes Service manuals.
A big stack of dead tree editions of webcomics(Sabrina Online, housepets, Precocious, The Whiteboard, to name a few. The Sluggy megatomes are in the livingroom. The Digger omnibus will also end up there. )
I can't say that I recognise the picture on the small TV, so I'll have to take your words for it.
Also, Wall-E may be 'cute', but not really Geek.
Number 5, now THAT is Geekiness encapsulated in a shiny tracked chassis...
The books in the bed only counts if the bed is big enough that you can still fit in there without ruining them.
Another yardstick is how many Doctor Who episodes you own.
(The 7 seasons after the restart doesn't count)
On that note, I assume everyone got the news that they've found 9 complete episodes in Africa?
That's right! The number of missing episodes is now down to 97!
Substituting "desk" for "workbench"...
Robot on shelf over teevee
Robot on top of cable box
Robot on box of circuit boards on unusable cluttered other desk
Robot on pile of laundry
Robot beside pile of laundry
Robot on floor beside desk chair
Robot on bookshelf begging for attention
On desk...
Keyboard, mouse and monitor for 3 computers
Netbook
iPods
Various CD's DVD's
Pentax K1000
80 - 200 zoom lens
35mm Film and filters
Skipper from Madagascar plus Yoda and R2D2
Coffee cups
Adult beverage containers
Various hand tools
Several candles
Assorted other flotsam and jetsam
Note that the 'Sliding box' camera doesn't use film...
It uses paper directly. either normal 'negative chemistry' or special direct positive paper.
Want to have fun?
Use normal B/W paper in a pinhole camera and leave it open for a couple of days...
No chemistry necessary to make a COLOUR picture on B/W paper...
(Google Solargraph )
Note that the 'Sliding box' camera doesn't use film...
Understood, I just brought up caffenol since film is kind of geeky, developing your own is even geekier and using your morning coffee and OJ to develop you film is a bit far off the geeky meter.
The sliding box looks like a lot of fun.
If I ever get my wood shop set up again, I think it would be fun to build something like this in 8x10 format
Yeah, a large format with bellows and all the adjustments would be nice.
I wonder what kind of lens setup I'd need for one like that...
(I'm in the very slow process of setting up a woodshop... Got a circular table saw, looking for a decent drill press, and of course the ShapeOko CnC-mill I'm building)
I do have a 'a few' 135 and 120 film cameras, a big enlarger capable of handling 6x6 negatives, big developer tanks(capable of up to 3 films at a time) and all the chemicals for normal B/W processing.
Among the cameras are a few pinholes already, a Zenit Horizon panoramic and a Lubitel 166 medium format camera.
Working on restoring a 70s Zenit 135 with a rather humongous tele lens...
I did notice a new 3D printed pinhole camera on Kickstarter, but haven't backed it.
(Didn't like the shutter design. The Shutter flips down and also acts as protection for the 'lens' area. Unfortunately, I fear it will also result in 'camera shake')
your - indicates possession, ownership. (your car, your mistake, your problem)
you're - contraction of "you are" as in "you are wrong, I do know the the difference, and I can make the NSA nervous"...
Wood shop: I'd vote for a table saw and a good sliding compound miter saw. (and a band saw)
Depends on what type of work you are doing. I think every radial arm saw fan says, " oh, you can't do THAT on a table saw" and every table saw fan says, "oh, you can't do THAT on a radial arm saw", usually, you can do either on both.
At my budget, there's no way I can get a decent one. In that price class, they're way too small and underpowered. Some of them doesn't even have a tilting table.
I really wish I had a big workshop and could afford the kind of kit that I learned carpentry on... but that stuff came from a factory that had to close. The table saw alone probably weighed a couple of Tons!
Everything was 'industrial'. Saws, router, planers, 4x8' press for laminations...
We even had a square-hole drill.
Table saws can be used for cutting, splitting, making grooves, dove joints...
I know of one who made all the moldings and fairings for his house on one.
Router? Didn't need one...
Of course, the saw he did all that on had an extra setting for the blade. It could be moved so that it was at an angle to the travel of the material. You could make some really nice grooves that way.
Candles and Robots??? Wax and mechanisms don't mix.
The only thing that is worse is the brush on flux. People would leave the flux container open and then it would get over everything. Soap and water don't clean it and alcohol dries out your hands.
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That's good to know. My workbench is a swamp, it got so bad that I built a second workbench to get a clean start, but the inevitable happened and I now need to clean up two workbenches.
In that case, I surely have been entrusted with the secrets of the world......if only I could find them!
Hmmm.. Robot Geek Checklist time..
* workbench covered by parts, electronics, and tools (check)
* partially built robot on bench (check)
* robot magazine on bench (check)
* robot movie playing (check)
Yep... It's a match..
(Some are more geek than others... )
Workbench?
There's my desk in my 'office' but that barely has space for my keyboard...
(And besides, the room is so full of computers, tech books, a 1:4 scale sailboat made of cardboard, R/C Gliders and who knows what else, that it's barely standing room in there.)
My kitchen table is full of books, soldering equipment and laptop(well, 2/3 of it, the rest overhangs the edge. fingers crossed... )
Which means that my Prusa Mendel(still in need of final calibration) and partially built ShapeOko CnC-mill lives on top of my freezer...
No, geek is measured by what kind of reading material you have on your bedside table.
Mine has:
Kindle with lots of Sci-fi, Fantasy and Terry Pratchett books.
Haynes Service manuals.
A big stack of dead tree editions of webcomics(Sabrina Online, housepets, Precocious, The Whiteboard, to name a few. The Sluggy megatomes are in the livingroom. The Digger omnibus will also end up there. )
Where would robots be today without Wall-e? (Just painting cars and welding bumpers)
Bedside reading? I thought it was the books in the bed that counted?
Also, Wall-E may be 'cute', but not really Geek.
Number 5, now THAT is Geekiness encapsulated in a shiny tracked chassis...
The books in the bed only counts if the bed is big enough that you can still fit in there without ruining them.
Another yardstick is how many Doctor Who episodes you own.
(The 7 seasons after the restart doesn't count)
On that note, I assume everyone got the news that they've found 9 complete episodes in Africa?
That's right! The number of missing episodes is now down to 97!
Robot on shelf over teevee
Robot on top of cable box
Robot on box of circuit boards on unusable cluttered other desk
Robot on pile of laundry
Robot beside pile of laundry
Robot on floor beside desk chair
Robot on bookshelf begging for attention
On desk...
Keyboard, mouse and monitor for 3 computers
Netbook
iPods
Various CD's DVD's
Pentax K1000
80 - 200 zoom lens
35mm Film and filters
Skipper from Madagascar plus Yoda and R2D2
Coffee cups
Adult beverage containers
Various hand tools
Several candles
Assorted other flotsam and jetsam
@
Booooring!
http://ondu.si/ONDU-Pinhole-cameras-1
(Scroll down to the 'Sliding Box' design. That one's making its way to me now... )
Anymore? Ummmm....ok, parties aren't important.
Film and all cameras using film are important.
Pinholes and caffenol!
It uses paper directly. either normal 'negative chemistry' or special direct positive paper.
Want to have fun?
Use normal B/W paper in a pinhole camera and leave it open for a couple of days...
No chemistry necessary to make a COLOUR picture on B/W paper...
(Google Solargraph )
Understood, I just brought up caffenol since film is kind of geeky, developing your own is even geekier and using your morning coffee and OJ to develop you film is a bit far off the geeky meter.
The sliding box looks like a lot of fun.
If I ever get my wood shop set up again, I think it would be fun to build something like this in 8x10 format
I wonder what kind of lens setup I'd need for one like that...
(I'm in the very slow process of setting up a woodshop... Got a circular table saw, looking for a decent drill press, and of course the ShapeOko CnC-mill I'm building)
I do have a 'a few' 135 and 120 film cameras, a big enlarger capable of handling 6x6 negatives, big developer tanks(capable of up to 3 films at a time) and all the chemicals for normal B/W processing.
Among the cameras are a few pinholes already, a Zenit Horizon panoramic and a Lubitel 166 medium format camera.
Working on restoring a 70s Zenit 135 with a rather humongous tele lens...
I did notice a new 3D printed pinhole camera on Kickstarter, but haven't backed it.
(Didn't like the shutter design. The Shutter flips down and also acts as protection for the 'lens' area. Unfortunately, I fear it will also result in 'camera shake')
you're - contraction of "you are" as in "you are wrong, I do know the the difference, and I can make the NSA nervous"...
Didn't want to revoke jdolecki's Geek creds.
Wood shop? What, is erco rubbing off on you? Just print one of these
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:143882
You'll be up to your ear in messy chemicals and barking your shins in the dark in no time!
A table saw tends to be for panel cutting, not dimensional lumber. One of each is really the best.
LOL at first ....
Then melancholy struck like a vague memory of a fertilizer bomb.
Depends on what type of work you are doing. I think every radial arm saw fan says, " oh, you can't do THAT on a table saw" and every table saw fan says, "oh, you can't do THAT on a radial arm saw", usually, you can do either on both.
At my budget, there's no way I can get a decent one. In that price class, they're way too small and underpowered. Some of them doesn't even have a tilting table.
I really wish I had a big workshop and could afford the kind of kit that I learned carpentry on... but that stuff came from a factory that had to close. The table saw alone probably weighed a couple of Tons!
Everything was 'industrial'. Saws, router, planers, 4x8' press for laminations...
We even had a square-hole drill.
Table saws can be used for cutting, splitting, making grooves, dove joints...
I know of one who made all the moldings and fairings for his house on one.
Router? Didn't need one...
Of course, the saw he did all that on had an extra setting for the blade. It could be moved so that it was at an angle to the travel of the material. You could make some really nice grooves that way.
Who needs fancy power saws when you have planes!!!
Yeah... but some of it isInfrared film used with a B+W 89B filter. (And it's easier to adapt my Pentax to one of the telescopes).
@
The only thing that is worse is the brush on flux. People would leave the flux container open and then it would get over everything. Soap and water don't clean it and alcohol dries out your hands.