Eric Lotze Log 2021

Basics

• The Entries in Eric Lotze Log from the year 2021
• Moved to this page to reduce slowdowns/size of the main page

Entries

• ==12/31/2021==
• Nov 25 / Dec 15 - Now is what edits i am trying to find + review to check that i am "up to date" ; reached limit of Recent Changes at about Dec - 9
• I'll clean this up later, but i went through the recent changes log and added some thoughts + basic edits.
• I'm off to go do various new year festivities, so Happy New Year!

12/12/2021

• Didn't get all that i wanted done, but did get a decent amount of stuff (albeit a bit chaotic)
• Made a very (at least in my opinion) detailed page on Pegboards
  • This is kind of due to me plotting on how to make my family's garage more organized, but also kind of in preparation for trying to devise what all tool wise is on FeF and maybe in the process of trying to determine that see how / help with the organization side of things?
  • A Plastic Version would (at least in my Opinion) would make a great Precious Plastic / OSEH product etc
  • This is also true for the near infinite amount of Pegboard Accessories
• Along those lines i was also getting into Inventory management software and related things
  • I made InvenTree , mentioned me looking into all this on the OSE and (i guess now due the the Due to the Cease and Desist it is "Totally Not- ) Index PnP Discords
  • The developer contacted me, and we talked a bit, so that was neat and may lead to further collaboration in the future?
• Also did some thinking + discussing on how a Barcode Reader (or 2D Barcode !) + "smart button" (need to grab the name of those amazon ones / how they work?) would fit in this system
• I also made a pile of redirects on Wikipedia, and a few on ose wiki today
• Also was mowing the lawns recently + using a leafblower, so that had me pondering on:
  • Clover Lawns
  • Reduced Lawn Landscaping / something along those lines
  • Leaf Vacuums / Leaf Mulcher's etc
  • Universal Battery Pack and related things
    • We bought into Ryobi's battery system / have their tools, and supposedly they make a vacuum+mulcher combo unit, need to see the reviews on that
    • They would save time + battery energy (also reduce gas usage via a lawnmower as a leaf mulcher/bagger which we did); leafblower almost seemed futile at times lol
• Also catalytic converters on lawn mowers + muffler enhancement
• Also need to look into the state of Self Driving Lawnmowers / Electric Lawn Mowers (or Flex Fuel !)
• Also made Adversary Based Design which i had been meaning to do for a while
  • Need to add that criticism of OSE article that i saw here or on the Discord a while back
• On that note / a preview of next weekend's work:
• Fossil Fuel Free OSE by 2023
• (Log was being weirdly slow / lagging on text input for a bit there which was odd, guess it is due to my CPU temp jumping to 80 for some reason lol)
• (Unsure on hours, but probably somewhere around 6?)
• (Also moved onto MIG, not TIG, due mainly to a higher up who likes to screw with people/flex their power lol)
• (Was doing overhead and somehow got something in my eye; this reminded me of + gave me more ideas for that safety stuff)
• FINALLY The Summer X Section of the Discord has been kind of empty recently, any idea as to why that is?
  • Granted as evidenced by my weekday absence, i do get the busy / far from a PC or Smartphone aspect!
  • AN update or something would be nice though
  • Anywho logging off for the night / week!

11/29/2021

• Or was it 28 due to the midnight swap?
• Anywho quite literally burning the midnight oil; love how when my brain decides to get in a good state of Flow is *middle of the night*
• Mostly just documented links/thoughts from my phone
• Got through most of them, which unlike my laptop links went quite way back, and most were also welding related (ie i heard something in class and wrote it down / looked it up)
• Also did some wikipedia side edits, odd how it seems perfect from the middle, but all it's niche "edges" are tattered and sometimes essentially empty
  • On this note need to look into Wikipedia's use of web crawlers / cros wiki comparisons, for instance there is "Petrowiki" and others (such as OSE Wiki!) that contain information that may be of use, we just need to sit down and "compare notes" that and/or make bots that essentially do that
  • Also "Open Repair Wiki" 's Discord has a neat bot run sub-channel that acts essentially as our Recent Wiki Changes page, but in-discord, which is neat
• Also getting slightly paranoid as to if / how / where discord is backed up
• Also did a bunch of cleaning recently and that had me thinking on "ease of cleaning" as another factor to rate stuff with
• The ability to easily wipe something off, or especially if it is on the upper area of a well / on the ceeling to use an extension wand of a vacuum to vacuum dust it, rather than needing to grab a ladder, and potentially dissasemble something is also neat
• Also the damn Bathroom Exhaust Fan is squaking like hell, i think it just uses a metal on metal Slip Bearing , those things are built damn cheap, and my parents tend to take the policy of "throw the entirety of it out and buy *an entire new thing* " good opertunity for an OS thing IMO
  • Also on this note ineed to use the images + dimentions i took of that gear in the broken Pencil Sharpener and either order one, or sketch up one and get it 3d printed
    • Also could do a ~~mild ammount of reverse engineering given i took it apart to the screw level essentially~~ (although Sustainability of Pencils / mechaniocal vs wood etc?
• Some more people joined the Discord today / last night, so give them a warm welcome, and also they may need some more help Onboarding if i'm not there to di it; i'll *try* to check the discord on my phone during lunch break / after school or something too
• ~~Ever just sit there and feel a mix of Sonder / existential dread about Superobject that is the sheer ammount of materials flowing around you and all the complex processes for making / using even the simplest things (with much of said processes destroying the earth/environment/people's right to a good life), and the entropy + futility all that brings? ME NEITHER~~
• ALrighty enough rambling, logging off for the day

(also this week will be somewhat crazy, we are testing for SMAW (which my essentail tremor may kind of prevent me from passing, although that feels like a bit of a crutch, but also it is the only factor i can isoilate) so i will be the normal ammount of busy, then some + stress, so probaby won't get anything done until saturday probably?

11/24/2021

Pre-Final Log

• Trying to focus on getting links off of phone
• 10/17/2021 mentioned that central hydronic heat working fluid tank thing This Page seems to be along the lines of that, worth a look

11/12/2021

Work Stuff

• Didn't get as much done as i wanted to
• Mainly just treading water in tabs/STEAM YouTube creator content/discord discussion + projects
• Made a couple pages, probably kind of nonsensical since i am tired and not working efficiently right now i guess
• Wrote this comment on the Discord about wanting to catch up sometime on the progress on the FDM Filament Maker specifically (although all the work seems *amazing* really wish i was there! (always future years and whatnot i guess!) )
  • Essentially there seems to be a *pile* of designs emerging, but at least from what i have seen not much collaboration/awareness of eachother's work, and thus a bit of Redundancy Waste
  • I am *way* behind in the videos on User: Marcin's YouTube channel short of maybe a few timelapses, i have also been watching a few videos by some of the new people (also before i forget, sorry i haven't done the onboarding bit yet aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa)
    • So i'd like to also watch the relevant videos beforehand, the whole "read the fucking syllabus" bit, not ask questions mentioned in 5 of the last 10 meetings!
  • But at least from what i've seen with working with Precious Plastic, that and the shredder, as well as maybe an Open Source 1hp Electric Motor are in huge demand, and would be very effective in making the equipment more accessible
• Still a PILE of links to add from my phone that keeps on growing
• I need to get into some better way of managing all that, chrome bookmark folders may work, but not group viewable, i do have a *pile* of open YouTube playlists, but sometimes they oddly disappear / the library on YouTube is a pain to use since you have to hit "view more" and wait a few seconds a bunch of times to go from a to z etc
• Computer is running slow as hell today, need to diagnose that
  • Long uptime maybe that
  • Probably near full drive, need to address that (granted i don't have money for a NAS yet, so it is all probably dumping it to the lovely google owned cloud, or flash drives, may be able to find an old "smart" 1tb hard drive and get that going again
  • Also could be RAM and/or "hybrid" HDD (honestly may just be a HDD, doesn't have the speed i'd say just marketing bs lol) not being able to handle the sheer power of my tabs AS WELL AS Bloatware
    • Moving to OSE Linux or some sort of basic daily driver linux (LTT has a video on trying to get a user friendly linux going, they seem to be doing a HUGE amount of PR for the OSHW / OSS community recently which is neat!
• Also there was some sort of software by mit for lifelogging / personal info management IIRC, gotta dig that up and look into it, also some sort of time managment app which may help less time slipping away from me

Personal Update i Guess?

• Welding school isn't going too great; hard to tell given there are so many factors, but i think my essential tremor *may* be holding my back which is a bit concerning
• I think i have gotten my flat welds with 7018 rods to an acceptable level, but i don't have access to any sort of testing above looking at it / asking around until the final "bend tests"
• Not certain how it will all work out, we also dive into full on TIG Welding next, so either that will go better due to the perfectionistic nature (iirc, lots of prep grinding and can be slow and meticulous due to not worrying about rod feeding, can even do a "cleaning pass" with just torch iirc?), or be worse due to being notoriously harder
• Also may need TIG Gloves (and my current leather gloves are getting quite charred as well lol, hence the research into Welding Proof Materials and other consumables / buy to continue learning but maybe end up failing and thus sinking little cash on something that is near useless to me then
• Granted MIG / Flux Core are supposedly quite easy, and less leverage + hand adjusting due to just holding the "gun" would probably be nice, and most "production over precision" jobs use those anyways i guess?
• Granted it's not exactly right to compare myself directly to my peers (mindfulness/growth mindset/dbt and all that shit), but at the same time from a heartless hiring person, *in a Right to Work State * in what is essentially a Gig Economy job (to an extent, more stable if with a fab shop / company etc), i would say that i would hire the best people so thus the comparison is semi-accurate?
• Granted again if they just need a human robot arm capable of running a mig gun all day i may be able to do that, or maybe i will learn more and get better skills?
• All in all just not too great for the mental health i guess!, a great example of the "things i like, things i am good at, and things that make money" venn diagram meme
  • That and the Iron Triangle will be the death of me i swear
    • Currently having community recycling dumpsters...at the Library backing up...if only there was some sort of local recycling system to swing in and save the day...
    • That and stray cats reminding me i need to get that catch and release stuff going (and maybe GIS mapping+even tracking them?)
• Just TLDR pile of ideas / projects / jobs that need to get done but not enough time / money to even get any of them even started, in the process missing kind of tipping points/keyholes
• Granted enough melodrama on my part rambling in the middle of the night goodness lol

TLDR / Guide to later me cleaning up this day's / past few of my dev day's mess

• Information Overload / Content Treadmill issues
• Information Organization / Storage Issues
• Time Management / Stress / Flow State Issues
• Some basic work getting done, but heavily limited due to the top factors
• To-Do
  • Clean up mess of logs + work (and move these to the damn proper To-Do's !!! )
• Try and finally get some form of more rigid schedule/time management + mind mapping software/data organization scheme + clean out PC and all that and make things orderly + optimized
• Maybe get linux to deal with Bloatware
• Visit Jax Makes
• Try and get makerspace going at some basic capacity
• More macros / automation of things like categories and that other work i can get derailed on at times?

12/31/2021

• Didn't get *as* much done as i wanted to, but a decent amount
• Lots of discussion on the Discord as per usual as well
• It's late though; 10:35 local time, so in theory if i fell asleep RIGHT NOW i'd get 6.5 hrs of sleep or so
• Didn't get the pages on the various Open Source Smart Watches or the AGM G1 Pro down
• Also need to back up more YouTube videos
• And OpenDog v3.0 is aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive (decently on time with Halloween lol)
• Also Steven Hawes and others working on the IndexPnP project are getting very close to completion of not only the design, but also starting full on Mid-Scale Manufacturing and design of the whole Minifactory
  • Really worth a watch if you haven't seen it! (Also subscribe and/or join the group's discord, they have a good github too i may need to add links too
  • Also want to discuss Warehouse Automation Software / Factory Automation Software and their work on this for a minifactory as that is 100% amazing and in OSE's interest as well
• Also have aa pile of phone links to back up
• Need to look into how Google's Web Crawler works
• Also was looking into YesWelder 's recent 5-in-1 Stick, Mig, Flux Core, TIG, and Plasma Cutter (supposedly may not have all tig modes, also need to see if you can swap the polarity, ie DCEP vs DCEN etc, and other "fine print" specs)
• I think that is about it, logging off for the day, probably will be off until thursday/friday due to lack of time + exhaustion when i am free! Will try to read the discord more on my phone this week as well

12/30/2021

• Baby sat a sibling so didn't work much today
• Got some basic pages made:
  • Welding Personal Protective Equipment
  • Welding-Proof Materials
• Loving the concept of a OSHW PAPR welding helmet! (and probably cooling suit too)
• Also looked into the Dyson Cinetic Cyclonic Seperation Technology and wonder how hard doing something similar for Air Scrubbers , Intake Air Filters , PAPRs and maybe even Flue Gas Scrubbing (To reach Baghouse levels of Particulate Matter reduction with little bag use (if any, may be wanted as a failsafe / guarantee)
• All sorts of engine stuff to dump somewhere
• Blender released a new Open Movie (I thought it was great, only complaint is Frame Rate, but that may be intentional?
• Also the movie i watched with my younger sibling on netflix today was by a small group in germany, i want to know what software they used, it may have been Blender like "Next Gen", especially since the alternatives are Pixar's locked down thing i think and maybe Maya ? will be really interesting to see it's market share grow *especially* as the recent updates focus on the teamwork aspect of the software workflow (i dream of a day where FreeCAD has the development budget + developers + user base etc of Blender!)
• About it i guess, will try and get some work done tomorrow pre having to go to bed early to get to school, missing the days of my almost nocturnal sleep schedule; i can do this early morning stuff fine, but it sure doesn't feel "natural" !

10/17/2021

• Didn't get as much done as i wanted to, as per usual, BUT
• Figured out how to save pages to the Wayback Machine
• Added some categories and organizational stuff to some new pages + skimmed them
• Began Discussion of Solid Waste Management and how a Precious Plastic esque (ie reprapable and OS) approach may help with that with one person trying to do this from the Precious Plastic Discord
• Discussed with the 1-2 people working on Their Own Filament Maker projects on the Precious Plastic Discord, and tried to see where they were, if they were OS-ing their stuff etc
• Discussed that Central Hot Working Fluid Tank idea of mine a bit
• Discussed + Went over some IndexPnP work
• Tried to dump some phone links
• (Rather frantically now that i have 6:45 mins until morning alarm...) Made the beginnings of Environmental Impact of SMAW vs GMAW and Servant Leadership
• That's about it i guess, probably will need to clean this rushed mess up later
• Unsure on hour count, may reverse engineer that later, but was mostly 12:00-now or so (with breaks and whatnot which always makes these calculations a mess)

10/14/2021

Pre-Work Bit

• Need to see how long i've been in it, but been at the welding program at FSCJ for a while now
• Currently working on some SMAW ( Stick Welding ), mainly with 7018 Welding Rods (Tried 6010 Welding Rods a bit, but they were funky, smelled like lung damage, so i decided to master 7018 before that)
• May make some pages on welding + non-destructive testing stuff i have learned
• Need to dump links off of pile of phone tabs
• All sorts of YouTube links to share
  • Seems to be a bit of Redundancy Waste on FDM Filament Maker Dev work, want to clear that up, so should make pages for the other designs and add them to OSE Filament Extruder v21.10 Industry Standards
• Been driving the ~45min each way drive and realizing how horrible the Car Dependant Model of USA Urban Planning and whatnot is
  • Also thinking about various things i could do to juice more efficiency out of the old Honda Accord i drive ( Start-Stop System , Hybrid Drivetrain , KERS etc, also just more buttons / gauges / Engine Tuning / ECU crazyness
• Also recycling of metal powder from grinding + powder/chippings/precipitated smoke from welding, and the Environmental Impact of SMAW vs GMAW (and reprap-ability)

8/18/2021

• Documented some stuff we discussed/are discussing on the Discord
  • Earth Auger
  • Post Hole Digger
  • Mechanized Barn Raising
  • Comparison of Existing DIY and/or Open Source Robotic Actuators
  • Comparison of Existing DIY and/or Open Source Robotic Arms
  • Open Source Scissors Lift

7/20/2021

• Alrighty, felt *much* more productive today, logging off for the day, SHOULD be back in ~8-11 hours or so
• I guess 6 Hours, Hard to tell
• Did a pile of Safety Stuff (Been watching a bunch of USCSB stuff which shows all the ways to *NOT* do Bio-Petrochemistry (Granted 2/3 of the incidents, and nearly all recent ones were do to people rushing (often due to higher up's demands), and having a bad safety culture, or just flat out skipping maintenance
• I do think fleshing all that out, and implementing various systems (+ just making sure / adding there are fire extinguishers/eye wash bottles/stations etc where there should be some)
• Once i (someday...) or someone else gets into bio-petrochemistry stuff that is when this will really "kick in" granted one of the incidents was due to their plant scale reactor not shedding as much heat (and them skipping steps, but i digress), as their lab scale unit, leading to a runaway reaction.
• But with modular design / smaller Scale (Analytics) production (ie makerspace, county, or state level, not global, demand wise) things may be safer from that
  • Was due to the square/cube law, which was another surprising oversight, granted easier after the fact i guess
• Need to do a Hazard Analysis of Hydrogen Storage / Saturated Steam (and probably biogas / upgraded biogas to cng standards etc) just to help design in all that
• Did some misc stuff today on Ash Handling , Composite Materials , and CEBs (mainly just adding links i recently saw
• Tomorrow though
• Probably going to fire up that GIS Suite and run some tutorials first thing
• Then probably some cleanup from my past few days of work
• Then, if any time is remaining, move on to watching marcin/ose video backlog (caught up otherwise on other channels)
• Then, if ant time is remaining, move on to finishing up safety stuff / To-Do List Stuff

7/18/2021

• Didn't get enough done, but by staying up longer that just ruins sleep schedule making it worse, so logging off for now
• Read some papers/dug for info on that Heavy Metal Removal via Ozonation (and later Advanced Oxidation Process ), burt time didn't get too much done but that was a thing
• Brains kind of blanking out, so will fix/update this later

7/17/2021

• Off rhythm/getting back into it
• Got all that backlog short of safety stuff pretty much taken care of
• Should finish up safety stuff, then move on to GIS stuff / watching past meetings at ~2x speed (also try and make any of the ones i can!)
• Need to also get back to answering questions on the PP discord, and send emails out to in-person stuff again\
• Not certain on hours as that has all been odd recently, will try and get a good log of all that
• (also tried out some VR stuff i got on steam sale, "VR Power Tools" wasn't even as good as the dev sprint Lathe Safety Simulator software/game, so that was unfortunate, but i'll try the Robotic Cell Simulator later (if i even can, may need engineer level understanding / example files etc!)
• Project North Star announced on their discord a day or so ago they are having dev meetings
  • "Hi @everyone I'm excited to announce that we'll be holding #ProjectNorthStar meetings weekly at 10pm EST on Monday! These meetings will go over some of the current software initiatives as well as hardware and campaign updates from @CombineReality We hope to see you all there and that these events will help guide this project's momentum forward! If you have any suggestions for topics or items you'd like to discuss please feel free to share them.

We're currently planning on discussing the following:

1) Updates to the SteamVR Driver system 2) Iniatives for getting prebuilt headsets out to select developers 3) Continued development on the ground truth optical calibration models 4) Systems to improve the onboarding process with a northstar HMD and standardize calibration file naming + coordinate systems.

We understand that this time won't work for everyone, and we will likely time shift or add additional events to accommodate other time zones better in the future!"

• That's about it i guess

7/14/2021

Pre-End of Day Stuff

• Currently have ~72 tabs up
• Mix of:
  • OSE Stuff (Mainly Apprenticeship Work/Content i need to review)
  • Practical Origami and Kirigami for Engineering stuff (not much ~5 tabs maybe)
    • The paper on the design of a voice coil knife
  • Stuff on Keyline Subsurface Ripping / whatever term was best for that
  • Stuff on Safety Instrumented Systems and other safety related stuff
  • Links from that meeting with Scihub Inc. the other day on lab / makerspace design that needs to be added to Fleming Island Makerspace Development / i need to make + post those spreadsheets
  • HVAC / Superinsulation / Passive House stuff from that video i posted in the discord the other day
  • Misc stuff from YouTube, Aeiral Ropeways , Fractal Vise , Lay Up Composites using a 3d printed mold, good video on development cycle, as well as repurposing materials
• Need to document + comment + share
  • New content by Iron3D
  • Channel developing a DIY / OS ultrasonic inkjet
  • Content on some sort of OTS Filament Maker circulating on major channels recently (compare to OSE design / determine if/when we could send a model to not get left in the dust?
• Need to get all that where it needs to be so i can move on
• Also need to watch all that video backlog from Marcin's channel i have, can watch at 2x speed (although may need to slow down/pause for detail in some bits
  • Calculate minimum time this can be done in
• Figure out why discord is not showing alerts as to new comments in other groups yet is still sending that noise / etc
• Load up freecad and try new workbenches / try and get that going
• Heading out for food now i guess, so will be continued

7/8/2021

• I didn't get much done today, maybe one or two hours, but i think that tabs / project creep/scope creep is controlled again.
• I will probably make some pages on safety systems, swales/keyline undersurfacing, then try and catch up on marcin's videos