From what I remember is that I
-harvested components from my old laptop motherboards (MOSFETs, vrms, clock generators, vram chips, attempted to remove the CPUs)
- one of the CPUs silicon shattered and delaminated and I have this old microscope from when I was little so I decided to like combine it with my USB microscope, in doing that I ended up opening the usb microscope up and messing with the firmware, renamed its Wi-Fi SSID after figuring some stuff out, tmrw I'm probably gonna do a dump on the EEPROM chip that I saw since it looks like it will fit into my CH341A programmer that I previously used to reflash my BIOS chips
- while taking apart the USB microscope I noticed that the mechanism that "zooms" in and out has some idk what to call it, backlash? And wobble, so I decided I'm going to make a sleeve to prevent the wobble that fits inside the casing
-went to my lathe to try to make the sleeve out of an aluminum bar I had previously casted from recycled stuff but the lathe still has issues (one of the reasons I haven't used it very much at all), there's wobble when twisting the knob to the carriage on it which is absolutely horrible btw kinda ruins the whole reason for machining, precision
- soooo I dropped what I was doing and then went to re make the knob, I had already modeled one in CAD but that was my first time "reverse engineering" (measuring accurately) parts and I had to do a lot of trial and error to get the previous knob replacement to work, of which is currently replacing the knob on the lead screw
-despite my digital calipers running out of battery I managed to measure the parts needed (metal sleeve with key, multiple diameter cylinders that are connected to eachother at a different point along the center of the part) and honestly I think I did pretty damn well with a ruler and the less precise manual markings on the caliper, turns out the part is mostly metric and with the previous one I was measuring and modeling in imperial which when rounded to the what I thought was correct dimensions were in fact, not at all correct
-finished that model and then replaced the 1mm nozzle with a 0.4 mm nozzle which I thought was 0.2mm but using a magnifying glass and a ruler it was about half a mm, they don't normally make 0.5mm nozzles so it was 0.4mm so I can get a really nice part and FINALLY after all of that it's now printing and I need to shower and shave to dress up tmrw and take pictures of my costume since I have no irl friends and can't really show it to anyone besides online
-harvested components from my old laptop motherboards (MOSFETs, vrms, clock generators, vram chips, attempted to remove the CPUs)
- one of the CPUs silicon shattered and delaminated and I have this old microscope from when I was little so I decided to like combine it with my USB microscope, in doing that I ended up opening the usb microscope up and messing with the firmware, renamed its Wi-Fi SSID after figuring some stuff out, tmrw I'm probably gonna do a dump on the EEPROM chip that I saw since it looks like it will fit into my CH341A programmer that I previously used to reflash my BIOS chips
- while taking apart the USB microscope I noticed that the mechanism that "zooms" in and out has some idk what to call it, backlash? And wobble, so I decided I'm going to make a sleeve to prevent the wobble that fits inside the casing
-went to my lathe to try to make the sleeve out of an aluminum bar I had previously casted from recycled stuff but the lathe still has issues (one of the reasons I haven't used it very much at all), there's wobble when twisting the knob to the carriage on it which is absolutely horrible btw kinda ruins the whole reason for machining, precision
- soooo I dropped what I was doing and then went to re make the knob, I had already modeled one in CAD but that was my first time "reverse engineering" (measuring accurately) parts and I had to do a lot of trial and error to get the previous knob replacement to work, of which is currently replacing the knob on the lead screw
-despite my digital calipers running out of battery I managed to measure the parts needed (metal sleeve with key, multiple diameter cylinders that are connected to eachother at a different point along the center of the part) and honestly I think I did pretty damn well with a ruler and the less precise manual markings on the caliper, turns out the part is mostly metric and with the previous one I was measuring and modeling in imperial which when rounded to the what I thought was correct dimensions were in fact, not at all correct
-finished that model and then replaced the 1mm nozzle with a 0.4 mm nozzle which I thought was 0.2mm but using a magnifying glass and a ruler it was about half a mm, they don't normally make 0.5mm nozzles so it was 0.4mm so I can get a really nice part and FINALLY after all of that it's now printing and I need to shower and shave to dress up tmrw and take pictures of my costume since I have no irl friends and can't really show it to anyone besides online
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Forwarded from Blue's High Quality Blueposting
Yes I know my room is a mess but that mess is from today
Damn, my Halloween photos aren't as interesting