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After about eight years and a similar failure last year, this came as no surprise: It’s a W5W “parking light” in the same fixture as the melty halogen high-beam bulbs (used as daytime running lights at half power), so it gets toasted on those occasions when we drive somewhere. The adhesive holding the LED strip…
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Printing went smoothly after two preliminary passes to work out the sizes and alignments
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The skills we acquire fixing stuff that we don’t care about serve us well when we have to fix something that actually matters
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After a bit of OpenSCAD twiddling, those doodles turned into a printable model.
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So I know whether the gizmo I’m building or the parts I’m arranging actually fit on the Thing-O-Matic’s build platform.
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Knowing the risetime, you can calculate the voltage across the inductor
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It’s a pan-head screw that miraculously fits snugly inside the cut-off shaft section
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I suppose they’re Matryoshka-sized from one end to the other.
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 