secondsuitor

Graham cracker walls
Gingerbread roof
Icing glue
Sugar glass windows (must keep dry, put rice inside?)
Gumdrop path lights
Powdered sugar snow
Reese’s trees

All on an upside down glass pie dish, LEDs illuminating from below through the glass

Becky Sterns(sp?) published a knitting class on Instructables. I should look into this.

Attach a nut, to a block of wood; move the wood using the servo.
Straightforward.
This is one of those days I consider rethinking my methods. I don’t know how big the nut is, but I think it’s bigger than my largest drill bit. I’m positive of this really. This means I’ll need to cut out a hexagonal shape from whatever wood that I have, just to see if it works. I don’t even know if I have a large enough bit for the bolt. Really me, this is all sorts of backwards.
Enough whining.
So I need to cut some holes in some wood, mount the nut, holding the servo steady and the wood in a static orientation, move the wood.
I wonder how much force this will exert. Should I prototype with balsa?
Whatever.
Nut bolt wood move.

We have two cats with four boxes.
Good.
We need to move one.
Bad.
I don’t mind one in my bathroom.
Good.
There’s no floor space.
Bad.
I don’t need anything under the sink…

Project this weekend:
Clear out under the sink.
Remove doors.
Add litter box.
Purrfect.

Started flattening a cap, seeing as how I have so many. Last night I almost finished flattening and drilling said cap, bit I try not to use hammers and drills after midnight.
Tonight I am doing that though.
This is course is what I’m going to be attaching the servo horn to.

Baleful red eye, a jetblack body, a strips of illumination pulsing.
SBC in a guild navigator spice tank. Thick wet umbilicals going to the other cars.
Construction yellow gripper?

I’m def feeling the 2001, Dune, Tron, Half-Made World feel. Still not positive on the gripper.

I’m not. While my ability to rabbit hole everything I do leads me to have a much larger knowledge base, it makes it difficult to do anything.
So, it’s time to task orient.
I considered “task date” but that leads to the fealings of failure when things are behind.
I think I’ll go with a base number.
Task I (because Roman numerals are sexy)
Attach servo to something.

Servo horn, square end on a disk, the square is designed to fit a driver bit, so attached horn, horn goes into bit, bit turns bolt, bolt has threads, motion.

I may be using the word horn wrong though.

Also, this will get expensive on buying bits if done in bulk.

Rudimentary drawing is done, now to attach a servo to a bolt.