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

M2 Platform Alignment Check

2016-06-17

Machine Shop

M2

That’s similar in both absolute values and alignment to the measurements from two months back.
Raspberry Pi Streaming Radio Player: Mostly Viable Product

2016-06-16

Software

Improvements | RPi

It runs pretty much all day, every day
Monthly Image: Groundhog Burrow

2016-06-15

Photography & Images

Improvements | Wildlife

The new back-yard groundhog made extensive renovations and improved the landscaping
Forester: TPMS FTW, Sorta-Kinda

2016-05-26

Machine Shop

Rants | Repairs

The TPMS light blinked on about a mile from home
Groundhog on High Alert

2016-05-21

Oddities Photography & Images

Wildlife

The extensive garden armor remains effective
Blender Bearing Repair: Round Three

2016-05-18

Machine Shop

Repairs

I … found the box containing the box containing the tube of bearings
Monthly Image: Transit of Mercury

2016-05-15

Oddities Photography & Images Science

Mercury is (almost certainly) the tiny speck