Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Steampunk


Well I've been drunk a lot. There is also the holidaze I've been running around for, but I have started a new project. I enjoy the look of steampunk. I don't want to dress up in period costume talk funny and look down at people who think it's weird... but I enjoy the look of some of the things they created... SO I looked around for something that I could mod and not care if it came out looking like crap.
I picked this.


So I took it that the idea was to make it look homemade, overengineered and brass/copper. Ok so first I need to look at things.. which I did. Googlesearch for steampunk, click on images got some ideas. good. now to start hacking. I realized quickly that if I paint this thing, then in some forseeable future, I'll forget what the hell it is. Out came the soldering iron and used it to melt the bluetooth emblem into the plastic... as deep as I could. Next it needed a screw...perhaps some odd plug in... headed for the junk drawer.


I've learned some important lessons.. 1. be patient. epoxy (JB Weld to be precice) takes hours to dry and cure... if you don't wait it wont stay. 2. work on one side at a time. Otherwise it becomes a juggling act. So I've commited myself to this project... and if it doesn't turn out then the wife... well lets say I won't be able to steampunk anything else...

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Still alive...

Just mired in homework and tests.

I have been playing with a new cad program. Came recommended from Hackaday
Eagle came highly recommended, and it seems to produce. I haven't played with it too much but it defiantly looks like it would be very handy to the hobbiest... IF you want to pay 200bucks. Im running the freeware version right now. I was using Tinycad which did just fine for homework in my basic Digital Design class clear up until decoders. Why it doesn't have a decoder in the library I don't know.. Shouldn't be hard to put one in if you really needed one, I just didn't bother to. There is actually quite a bit of support for tinycad on yahoo, which suprised me. Probally why OSS is better.