Author: Peter Jones

I will not swear. I will not swear. I will not swear. All work and no play makes Jack a full boy. All work and no play makes Jack a full boy. All work and no play makes Jack a full boy. All work and no play makes Jack a full boy. Ask work and no play makes Jack a full boy. All work and no play makes Jack s still boy.All work and no play makes Nyack a full boy m all work and no play makes Jack a sol boy.

I blame myself.

One servo to rotate
One servo to advance the carriage
One servo to move the stamp
One whatever to move a stamp pad

Next. How do I want to fab?

I could hand cut parts and dremel in wood. Points for artistry, negative points for repeatability of the build. Points for cheepness of materials. Negative points for wear of materials.
Make molds and hand pour acrylic. Great except the whole fumes are never agents. I’d have the molds for fabbing new parts, but the messy.
Design parts and have someone fab them for me. I assume this will be the most expensive, least recovery method. Also, the next time I need a part, I’m back at square one.

Looks like it’s wood.

A peristaltic pump would do the trick, or keeping with the stamper idea, I could have a servo that had a lot of the same look as a cheap peristaltic pump. I’m thinking of y last inkjet printer I murdered.
By the way, I’m pretty sure people totally get skeezed when I’m doing my hands moving around while I visualize the motions involved.

So I’m thinking I’ll hand wrap some electromagnets, telegraph style. I’ll try firing then off next to each other, bit I’m pretty sure that’s going to fail. By fail, it’ll probably end up being like hammers on said keyboard. Having the wrong combination will give a false up of some kind. Next will be trying a V pattern. The distance might help, but I’m not really sure. If nothing else, it’ll give me more room to put the electromagnets. Last works be separating then even more and having it straight up look like the hammers of a keyboard. The last one though is going to require that each piece is pretty expertly machined…
Oh, hello. This is why I blog. I’ve poetically mentioned this before, but I remember an awesome anecdote I learned somewhere. At some CS lab, I think it was MIT, they had a teddy bear. Before you asked the helper, you had to fully vocalize the problem to the bear, and must questions answered themselves. I could just make a single key typewriter. One stepper to turn the bottle. One stepper to advance the carriage, one solenoid to hammer the bottle. Have the solenoid pushing along a track to ink the stamper.
Or… right. Rotate, and advance carriage as before. Cylinder of ink with pressure maintained by a screw, solenoid valve to give a moment’s inking.
I think number two is better, but number three is a possibility. Number three is much more likely to be really pokey about the ink consistency, but number two will have problems on the stamping mechanism fouling, and the material of the stamp not being properly chosen.

Poetically going to have to move the carriage, which adds another level of jitter to the project. I still think this is a better, and more long term reliable than making a true bottle press. I’ve been concerned about how many rollers I’ve had lying around and what happens when they’re all gone…
On happier musings, what data to capture and report:
Beer name
Beer style
Recipe source
Recipe (if not via kit) or kit source
Ingredients either way
Yeast
Yeast started
Primary boil temp
Primary boil length
Chilling duration
Chilling final temperature
O.G.
F.G.
Fermentation start date
Fermentation end date
Temperature data
Pressure data
Aging values for all of the above

And if someone looks at this which can be tracked via the barcode, add disks for them to input review data.
I’m getting way too nerd.

For matrix bottle printer. 2d barcodes. Stepper motor control rotates bottle, dots hit or not. Have the dots, controlled by… solenoids? Maybe a roller based encoder? Yeah. I can do this. I’ll have to look at how many dots I’m really looking at per line.

Taking a day off tomorrow. Gotta do the Compass Test, but what else? Soil moisture sensors for the tomatoes sounds like a good start, a little bit of yard maintenance, maybe a ghetto irrigation system (read as put nails through hose). I could definitely brew beer, I have a hefeweizen I’ve been wanting to get going. Or, the RePhone. Decisions…

Kidney pockets? Probably good for larger wearables.

For diverse and sundry reasons I’ll soon need some long sleeve shirt action. This is code for my employer is moving to polos, and I work in the coldest corner of Tartarus.
So. Turtlenecks.
Of course, I go looking online for thermal shirts, and they all looked like crap, and I hate changing my clothes at work, and summer.
Thinking black knit, mock neck length, super fine silver zipper. Left breast pocket, maybe a sleeve slit as well. Racing stripe sleeves with hollow fabric tube seam covers to reduce irritation and give Tim for wiring. You know. Tactical.