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

It’s Right on Red After Stopping

2016-04-09

Photography & Images Recumbent Bicycling

I got back to the right side of the lane and continued the mission
Refrigerator Drawer Strut Tab: Now With Inserts

2016-04-08

Machine Shop

Improvements | M2 | Repairs

No epoxy, no heat, nothing but a friction fit.
Filament Drive Gear Calculations

2016-04-07

Machine Shop Science

Improvements | M2

Some equations relevant to indentations
M2 Platform Alignment Check

2016-04-06

Machine Shop Science

M2

These results will (probably) provide some indication of whatever just changed
Thinwall and Solid Boxes for 3D Printer Calibration

2016-04-05

Machine Shop Software

CNC | M2

A revision to my Fundamental Calibration Object
Road Conditions: 2816 Rt 376 Northbound Sinkhole

2016-04-04

Recumbent Bicycling

Tax Dollars Asleep

It’s been sinking, month by month
Road Conditions: Drain Grates on Vassar Road near Red Oaks Mill

2016-04-03

Recumbent Bicycling

Tax Dollars Asleep

Obviously, you can’t bicycle through that one