Mike Log

Notes on My OSE Objectives

Not as much CAD today but did some infrastructure improvements around the cord-wood hut and cleaning up a bit. Looks a lot better though so definitely worth the time.

Good day of CAD yesterday. Looks like I'll be helping on the line today though stacking bricks. Marcin's going to try and have both CEB Presses running.
Looking for input on ARAS (aras.com) as an open source PLM software. If you have any advice or experience with it, please e-mail me! (mike dot apostol at gmail dot com)
After discussions with Marcin this morning, I'm going to create two versions of the CEB press. One as it is now with a list of bugs (but it has at least been fabricated) as a "beta" release and another version with some of the design improvements I have for it that will in all likelihood work but have not been actually tried out so can't really release it as a public release. It can be up to the fabricator which one they would like to use.
I really wish we were modeling in metric...soon...soon....
I have learned that closing the flue on the wood burning stove keeps a lot more heat in!
Spent today working on CAD standards that can function as a baseline for future work to maintain consistency. I'll be posting it to the wiki and then definitely up for debate and modification as required.

Further progress on the Liberator CEB Press today. Got a really nice parametric model of the hopper so that we can dynamically change all the angles and sides so that we can optimize the shape and size.
I'm modeling most of the press as it is now that is prototyped, but am hopefully implementing a change to close off the gaps between the hopper and the soil loading drawer as well as clean up some of the hole locations and fits.
Hopefully recruiting some CAD help for the drawings soon!
[1] This technique works well, just caught my first fly by hand today with it hahah