In my quest for beer-on-tap 24-7 I have been building a kegerator for my house. Soon I discovered I needed a drip tray to keep the floor from rotting through (did someone say firepole?!?!) Not wanting to pay almost $60 for one like this one I set out to make one. I found a aluminum …
Author Archives: TinyEnormous
Fire in the hole!
My buddy Jay and I put together about 5 gallons of what-is-soon-to-be red ale. Here’s a couple pictures of the process Mmmmmm…. yeasty! Tools ‘o’ the trade Chillin out the load in the bathtub. This took at least an hour to get down to the pitching temperature. I need an immersion chiller REALLY BADLY
automation saved my life!
I’m a big fan of sitting back and watching my computer do mindless things for me. Applescript and photoshop actions are two big things on my list. (Sorry windows users, you’ll have to find some other kind of “glue”) I just set up a workflow for posting pix that makes me pretty dang happy. I …
Bearings and Beer….hmmmm….. Beerings?
So here are the fruits of my weekend. These are the slide bearings for my CNC router. They’re made up of skate bearings, and angle aluminum. A really simple concept that makes my life simpler. you can see my new Keg-o-rator here. It’s almost a perfect fit in this closet, with just enough room left …
Some AFX tests
Here are some recent tests I did with vector line effects in After Effects. This first one is from a tutorial I found by bill O’neil on the creative cow site using the shine plugin. This is the simplest one, cloning out the tracing effect once I liked it, and tweaking to add depth. This …
another person’s take on CNC
I’m going to try to avoid being one of those blogs that only links to other blogs. That whole idea seems really recursive and redundant to me. This post did interest me however. Here Stuart McFarian is building a (probably) slower machine that looks a bit less heavy-duty. It also looks like it will cost …
CL350: rolling chassis
I think my shit eating grin and the fact that the bike is missing about 200 pounds of parts ought to say that this has a long way to go, but I’m excited about every step. This is my CL350 that I am rebuilding with a friend. We have cleaned and honed the cylinders, stripped …
illiterates will love this one!
…so i hooked up my camera and uploaded some photos… this is a closeup of the xylotex controller this is an earlier version of the frame from when I wanted a smaller machine. this is the bigger, newer version of the frame, 4 feet by 2.5 feet! I have the black pipe installed with the …
Links to check out
here are a few links you might find interesting if you’re doing what I’m doing. http://www.cnczone.com/ THE forum to check out what others are doing like this. http://www.geckodrive.com/ Pretty nice stepper controllers. Pricey, but very niceby all reports. http://www.smallparts.com/ Exactly what the name implies. all kinds of small part you would otherwise have to dig …
Parts list (AKA why I’ve been eating ramen and coffee)
So here are the bits I’ve bought already Xylotex 3 axis system kit with 425Oz/in stepper motors enco 12′ of 1/2″ acme rod 8 matching nuts thebigbearingstore.com 6 1/2″ 2 bolt pillow block bearings 8 1/2″ shaft collars Home Depot Tons of bolts, nuts, washers, bits and doodads. 20′ of galvanized steel u-channel (not really …
Continue reading “Parts list (AKA why I’ve been eating ramen and coffee)”