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Of late, the magnetic stirrer mixing my morning cocoa occasionally doesn’t start spinning when I turn it on, which calls for some investigation. Removing the four obvious screws concealed under the rubber feet and prying off bottom cover reveals the trivial innards: The speed adjustment pot holds the little circuit board in place, with the…
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Until inspiration strikes, a simple anchor will suffice
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I used up a lot of solder wick
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It turned out to be easier to just slam BOSL2 threaded nuts into the front plate
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What a real test box would reveal about the Prusa MK4’s Input Shaper resonance control
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All 5 mm round LED packages mark the cathode lead with a flat edge
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Mary is at least the third owner of a steel rack, originally intended to hold packages of retail stuff, which now holds (much of) her collection of quilting rulers: Obviously, it was never intended to hold heavy acrylic sheets, but it worked surprisingly well, right up to the point where too many of the rulers collected on two adjacent columns of pegs and overbalanced the whole affair atop her while she attempted to remove a ruler. Subsequent accident recreation showed the rack toppled when the weight of the rulers on the two adjacent columns of hooks moved the center of…
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 