Author: Peter Jones

I’ve been gluing palette strap together for the last few days. The goal is done useful lumber dimensions, something like a 4×4. It’s shoe going because I’m not using clamps or hardly any room, but it is going. Soon enough it’ll be fine to think about cutting the scrap down to finished couch leg length and getting the box at least built. I’m still not sure what the final structure will be, but I figured I’d just play it by feel. Totally blowing off the idea of a workshop in the couch, but storage is still a possibility.

Basic needs: don’t put to much wear on the string; energy efficient; able to hold onto the string, duh; good for completely vertical to horizontal, more of a strong traverser than straight climber.
My current thoughts involve one motor continuously spinning. The spinning turns two wheels at opposite iterations. Each wheel had a half on half of cycle where they have two wheels on the edge flipping position. I’ll need to draw this out.
This is why I need to start modeling stuff in Blender. First I need to learn how to use Blender.

Pike – Hopulus Erectus IIIPA
I have no idea what the third I is for. No matter what, it started with that musty flavor I hate in anything that ends with PA, but it smoothed right out. 9.5% ABV probably helps.

Right. The more I think about it I don’t want to have to have a big enough kite to lift a decent size sensor package. Even a cell phone its going to put a great load out there. Of course, what I mean is, I don’t want a big enough kite to lift off with that load. Sometimes the wind is erratic, and lifting that load from second one sounds like even more crashes than my skill usually encourages.
The solution of course is to lift the load after the fact. Now, I could do it as static load, probably something like twenty get from the kite itself. If I remember correctly, this is what many kite photographers do with much larger loads than I’m considering. Still, it seems dirty. Not in a bad way, but reduces the overall design value by implementing something entirely as a fix. What I’m envisioning would be a low energy rope climber. Now, I would be taking a hit on the weight, but it would also add functionality.
Kite not positioned where you want, move the load closer in. Kite to high, move the load down. Trying to get the max elevation, you’re not stopped at elevation minus twenty. About to make a water landing, panic retreat.
Now I’m thinking of how to make this happen. I should probably get the den cleaned some more and hang some string paths.

LightBeer – the glue is failing. Something about glass not being the best material for hot glue. As an aside, my phone thinks hot glue means girls, creepy. I think I’ll use my giant roll of wire to bind then together. Kinda sketchy using the same wire for my electrical and structural, but that how I roll. Just haven’t gotten back to it yet. That and I need to find my pliers. To ply stuff.
Backup Heart – I need to finish desoldering, well, everything probably. Basically, my soldering is still abysmal. Who knows, maybe I just had one bad connection. It seems like a short somewhere. Probably in the give blobs of solder I left everywhere.

(Working name: couch) – Hahaha. I don’t even have a name for it. I like having a name for a project. A babe makes it easier to stay on vision. I see the vision, but I have no name. I think I’ll make a pun based on the word couched. Our maybe bracket. Either way, I started to glue all my pallet scrap into more useful dimensions. In the absence of clamps I’m using a finite number of heavy things. I’m also expanding my collection of spare (computer case style) screws to act as decorative upholstery tacks. I still haven’t decided what to do for springs though. I could spin my own upholstery springs, which sounds, unpleasant. I could buy an old couch to gut. I could just use any other option. Decisions.

Everything else is in the indeterminate phase. I have done tools I need to build to help me build things.