The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning – Ed Nisley's Blog: Shop notes, electronics, firmware, machinery, 3D printing, laser cuttery, and curiosities. Contents: 100% human thinking, 0% AI slop.

The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning

Ed Nisley's Blog: Shop notes, electronics, firmware, machinery, 3D printing, laser cuttery, and curiosities. Contents: 100% human thinking, 0% AI slop.

OMTech Laser: It Was The Focus Pen Wire

2025-12-26

Electronics Workbench, Machine Shop, Oddities

Laser Cutter, Repairs

There is a break somewhere along the blue wire

More Cheap eBay Hardware Failures

2016-10-07

Electronics Workbench

Repairs

Another knockoff Neopixel failed in the usual way
Vacuum Tube LEDs: Improved Sockets

2016-10-06

Machine Shop Software

Improvements | M2

The boss … snaps neatly into the unpunched hub hole of a hard drive platter
Vacuum Tube LEDs: Milling a 0D3 Spigot the Right Way

2016-10-05

Machine Shop

Improvements | M2 | Sherline

That was completely uneventful, which is pretty much the whole point of good fixturing
Improved Octal Tube Base Clamp

2016-10-04

Machine Shop Software

Improvements | M2 | Sherline

The clamp must position the tube’s centerline so the envelope will clear the V groove
Vacuum Tube LEDs: Grinding Off a 0D3 Base Spigot

2016-10-03

Machine Shop

Sherline

There’s no way to clamp that mess in the Sherline
Maloney Road Repaving

2016-10-02

Recumbent Bicycling

Improvements

Sometimes, good things happen
Monthly Science: Time-release Pills

2016-10-01

Oddities Science

Perhaps an acidic environment would be more to its taste