Day: January 17, 2011

7 hours, 16 minutes

I’ve got a work meeting tomorrow that will require round trip travel of 7 hours and 16 minutes over 426 miles.

I’m not looking forward to this.  I have to arrive at 10am, which means I have to leave my home at about 6:00 AM.

Believe me, I’m really not a morning person.  Not only am I not a morning person, I don’t really like driving over long distances.  I figure the meeting will take about two hours, I’ll get nothing accomplished, and then I’ll drive back.  I could probably get back to the office at about 4pm or so, but I won’t.  I’m going straight home.

Blech.

Scrapping for parts

Over the weekend I took apart two old DVD players for parts.  I found some interesting small motors, magnets, tiny precision rods, and some other assorted odds and ends.

Today at work our office manager mentioned that some e-waste recyclers were coming out to pick up some old printers and other stuff.  I suggested we pull out any left over paper, toner cartridges, etc from the assemblies.  I would have liked to have scrapped these machines for parts too, but:

  • There’s only so much time in the day.
  • I don’t have any screwdrivers and other assorted tools at work.
  • Hanging out in the middle of the office taking things apart might raise eyebrows. 1

As I did so I realized that the toner cartridges contain thin precision rods.  Those could actually be kinda useful.  I think the next time we have old printer cartridges at home (or work) I might take one apart to see what kind of magic it hides.

  1. “Um, did he forget his meds again?” [↩]

Do you want to learn OpenSCAD with me?

I’m really just learning OpenSCAD right now.  I can make some basic shapes, put things together, and whatnot.  I was thinking about putting together some super super basic tutorials that would take a user from knowing nothing about OpenSCAD to knowing as little about OpenSCAD as I do.1  Is this something you’d be interested in?

Please leave a comment and let me know.  What would you like to know about it?  What would you like to learn?

  1. Perhaps even a little less! [↩]
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