I don’t know if this guy has any videos on other platforms besides Facebook but I had to share. He found a frog living in his fence, so he made him a home. Then he shared it and people gave him so many suggestions, he started improving.
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I can’t remember if we have discussed this before (and I did a quick search but it was not very helpful): doing 3d printing onto fabric. Like cosplay things, etc.
I saw a video where this guy made something (it might have been a cape) and left it in the hot car for a long time and it was perfectly fine. This could be really cool for making things for kids and dress up, etc.
Eventually I might take a look at this, I can think of some things my daughter would love. Has anyone tried it?
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Sophy Wong has done a bunch of cool stuff with 3D printing onto various mesh fabrics like that:
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Next up in the fractal vise parade:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/-nex/nexlock-electric-flexible-fractal-bench-vise/rewards
Now with suspiciously low price and extra electronic points of failure.
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This is so far outside my experience that much of it is gibberish, but also incredibly cool!
I’m guessing more of y’all will enjoy it 
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I’m always fascinated by the way computers can bring things down to a level where almost everyone with enough internet can do some pretty complex things.
I’m even more fascinated by the way we kludged these things out in the past.
In the 1970s the ANG at Boise were running F4 phantoms as reconnaissance birds and I got to see how they did their thing due to being in a certain class in HS. Chrome film about 15 inches wide and hundreds of feet long loaded into a camera with a spinning prism somehow synchronized with their ground speed! After developing the negative it could be laid out on a light table and with a lope you could see if a Jack rabbit had cataracts![1]
- The cataracts might be a slight exaggeration.
Footnotes ↩︎
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That’s cool!
Reminds me of the way we used to retrieve spy satellite photos. The satellites would take photographs on film and then eject canisters for reentry… An airplane would swoop by and snatch it out of midair while it was parachuting down.
This is pretty wild by itself, but it gets even crazier because of what they had to do when the parachute failed:
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Sometimes the best solutions are the simplest. So often when we find “a better way” it comes with compromises that reduce effectiveness. (Not the case with digital transmission of satellite photos, mind you.)
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Having connected Windows 3.11 machines to the Internet, I remember when “enough Internet” was one of the complex things. 
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Yikes! YT compression did a number on my time lapse video… 
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Awesome! This was the only part of it that we caught. We went to bed. I’d forgotten about it until Al Michael’s mentioned it during the football game last night and they showed it on tv. We went out to look and it was the same as they showed. We didn’t see the red, but of course, we didn’t watch the whole thing. Thanks for sharing your video!
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Beautiful! I went to bed after it reached the blood moon with a hat phase 
I’m presuming yours was on a tripod of some sort. Do you know what caused the rocking? Nighttime visitor or wind or ?
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I used my Seestar S30 Pro on a tripod. The rocking was expected due to quirks in tracking as the bright portion of the moon gave the telescope’s algorithms less to work with. Crossing the meridian about the same time didn’t help. 
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We got to see a solid cloud cover. Thanks for this.
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there might be a few naughty words in this video, but i think some people here will identify with it (i do).
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Yep, me too! My main problem is letting papers pile up on my work table, as well as other stuff that I’ll “get around to doing something with it when I get time.”
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I am tempted to show a photo of the work surface I spent two hours tidying yesterday. Now, one would look at it and merely say “what a mess!”
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i hit up an open house today that had this workshop space set up, which i would absolutely love (even tho, like every workshop, i wouldn’t mind it being slightly bigger, but it’s 15 x 12.5).
Not sure where it connected, but there’s compressed air on a reel at the ceiling, a gazillion outlets all around, a dust vent on that far wall near the radon pip, a sink, speakers in the ceiling (and it looks like a control plate on the wall for that with USB, BT, volume, and an aux in).
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That looks like a pretty good space!
I am generally frustrated by limited studio space. I play with so many different things: laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC machining, casting, relief printing, screen printing, paper engineering, sewing, etc. All the equipment needs to be set up somewhere or stored somewhere – all the paint, ink, pencils, wood, acrylic, fabric, thread, cord, paper, resins, glues, pigments …
I keep thinking it would be nice to be able to at least separate stuff into two categories of messiness. Like: separate sawdust production from sewing. Then, maybe a separate room with specialty ventilation to keep the resin and paint fumes out of the main working spaces.
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