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Eric Log

5/27/2020

    • Alrighty, signing off for the day, i'll be back in ~8-12 hours or so (been waking up oddly early recently)
  • launch was canceled, so all hype no launch today, 3 days till next window
  • Did more diesel/engine plots
  • We really should rename that page IMO (would need a good 15-30 min of link/name/doc name changing, but is do-able, even for all me
  • Then did a PILE of networking
    • Joined ANOTHER discord channel lol
  • Need to write em up on OSE later
  • Got better/messed around in OnShape more, i am not the expert, but think it is Probably better than FreeCAD
    • Only hold-up is cloud dependancy
    • Should? be fixable via OS(-ish) forking to pc or personal server, if even needed?
  • Also did misc stuff related to the discord, similar to what User:Marcin may do with small video conference related stuff, that seems random "outside of the loop"
  • IE 'USE THE DISCORD and slack (ish), and ...
  • Also a PILE of Sme's and existing marketing/networking in one discrod, may be of use
  • ANYWHO, that's about it
  • Added an extra hour or so to the guestimate of usual due to waking up earlier, so 7hrs or so

5/26/2020

  • Alrighty, signing off for the day, i'll be back in ~9-12 hours or so
  • I live in jacksonville fl, so if the spacex launch DOES happen tomorrow (weather is questionable, entering Florida's wet season) i will see that from where i am or a short drive south
  • ANYWHO
  • I did my usual discord lurking, may add more info about some of that tomorrow on to this wiki
  • Also did some more fuel + diesel engine plotting
    • Thinking up my diesel concept, may be more complex than the current plan for the simple diesel, need to plan more
  • Also plotted a bit on the Advanced Powercube Construction Set
    • Getting the diesel engine, and tanks of all the fluids to fit in this system would be optimal
      • Although bulky is always earier, especially for the first fully "in house" build
    • Also need to finalize the "standards" i think 25 cm cube external would be good, but need more opinions
  • That's about it

5/18/2020

  • Gettin late ~00:15 local time...technically the 19th locally... so i'm about to sign off and go to bed
  • ANWHO
  • Didn't get around to meshroom today, supposedly meshroom uses a differemt tracker "CCT Tracker"
    • Should be fine in a stationary, non moving setup like 3d scanning, and not ar/vr/mr etc
  • Did a PILE of networking on discord, and on youtube/email
    • The pyrolysis person wrote back and was suprisingly anti-open source, and nationalist? Was odd, but they may reconsider. Also they had a paywall on cad so go-figure?
  • Did a little more work on that
  • Found a bottle peeler for someone on the PP Discord and made a page
    • No 3d printable version, should be quick for someone good with freecad, essentially similar to a pencil sharpener, or vegtable peeler
  • Found out about a CHEAP printer, may legit buy, as a deal for 120USD was suppoosedly a thing! Need to check burnable money
  • Still haven't got stuff for the arduino, doing some networking
  • Came up with the idea for the raspberry pi server on a discord. I'm still insure about it. I am an overbuilding, young, dumb person, but it seems odd to do FLOPS, and intense fast stuff on simple SBC's. Granted the software protocols may make up for this, also rpi 4 is quite capable! Either way it's a good low cost option, and is VERY modular, and could be even more so with FPGA's
  • Found out about the ant thing, i personally hate roe on sushi, not rich enough/intrested enough to eat caviar, but did eat ants on some mountain while camping that some local said were good (were oddly sweet do to beries, odd to eat though had to pre-squish kill, long story). Dad had an ant farm as a kid, hipster market so may be a cashcow, just a thought train i had and wrote down (like 2/3 of my stuff lol)
  • I seem to be getting in a rhythm and getting a good workflow
  • Good at stock macros, semi-accurately touch typing, discord fully networked, desk all proper, productivity seems to be going up
    • Now i just need to learn (more)code and freecad...
  • I guess i'll leave it at that
  • Also we need to get better about Orpan Pages and unclear page purposes, i try to help, but i am not the original page creator anbd thus feel i may "mess up" the basics section
  • Also USE THE SLACK / DISCORD P l e a s e
    • Checking in in real time removes confusion, and makes work more productive, most companies/dev teams do this for workdays perhaps we should to (granted no timezone role yet, so unsure on what "day" is for the most people. I think most people active on this are in the americas/carribean? Need a poll/role list to really know
  • Unsure on hours, as much of it was networking, so i guess i will do the usual 6?
  • I'll leave it at that

5/17/2020

  • So i'm about to sign out for the day ~11:00 pm / 23:00 local time (EST), 3:12 utc (technically tomorrow too!)

also grabbed some research papers/videos

  • I also posted about this on the PP discord for use/development help
    • Would be useful for non-recyclables (thermosets), and hard to recycle plastics (PET), also tires/biomass could supplement
    • Could be sold as fuel etc making a good enterprise oppertunity, especially if fuel infrastructure in the local area is sparse
  • I also made a "pyrolysis oil" playlist on my youtube:
  • Outside of side projects, that was about it.
  • Also really starting to get a workflow that works well for me (schedualing + macros)
  • Am trying to learn to touch-type (i currently do some hellish combo of two finger pecking and touch-typing) so may gain speed
  • Also learning more on how my pc does it's macros stock
    • May delve into Autohotkey once i master the stock system
  • Side Projects:
    • Photogrammetry: Made printable trackers, may use tomorrow, if i can get a camera/lighting workflow together, don't have external flash, just spare static lights + windows, will see (also learning a lot on the photogrammetry discord)
    • WLED plotting about this, need money to burn on digital led strip and ESP32 stuff... (the discord is very active)
    • I found an old arduino (from a science fair that ended up not needing it years ago, lost it in storage, long story...) so may start up with that
      • I have no pin-wires, or sheilds/breadbords, so may do an amazon buy, looked into that today a bit
    • I think i will do the typical "hello world" and blink/pwm dim an led programs before a more "permanant" project
      • Still debating what that will be, for my favorite uses ESP32 seems better than my low capability Arduino Uno (stock ie no wifi) so unless i suddenly can make a CNC, it will most likely become a IOT button with a cheap wifi sheild, and a " "big red button" + speaker/light " module + case
        • No 3dp or welder...yet so would have to be wood, or an electric outlet box (outdoor ones) for a case
  • Alrighty, singing off

5/16/2020

  • Signing off for the day
  • Did mainly geek-ing out on various gearhead-ery with all the diesel engine stuff marcin was plotting
  • Also did my usual lurking on various social medias and found some intresting stuff i posted
  • Also was talking with some anti-vax person on the pp-discord, during a pandemic, that was...something
  • Anyhow i need to print those markers out and have another run at Meshroom my first run a day or so ago didn't produce anything usable, so i'll need to do some fiddling around (and probably ask for help/find a youtube tutorial for the settings etc)
  • Also will check out that other os-cad

5/6/2020

  • All over the place as usual
  • I joined a ton of related discords, so lots of NETWORKING
  • I think the main "thing" today will be me putting my pc to work on learning photogrammetry stuff

4/20/2020

  • Goodness i'm bad at these
  • I don't know about hours, as i chaotically jump back and forth between constructive stuff, and fun nonscence, and sleep hygine MAY not be exactly great (adhd is one HELL of a drug...)
    • ANYWHO i'm going to estimate ~5hrs? Can be changed later if need be\
  • Now for the details of what i've been doing:
    • Typical Page Organization, Link Fixing etc
    • Some human web-crawling, finding relevant stuff, various ideas etc
    • Got my "proffesional" social media/netwroking more together. Now have a full on reddit, slack, discord, and some various small things, attached to this "business email"
      • Also started posting a pile of stuff on reddit, discussing ose/open source stuff/various tech/science geekery (r/3dprinting is great...)
      • Met 1 intrested person who i am trying to get through all the applying stuff, they are a farmer, so real life testing etc, they also have some plans of their own (a combine, plastic crop cover/silage bag bio-sourced replacedmets etc) but i wont steal their thunder and whatnot, also still getting them all conected
    • My various pet projects/ideas
      • Universal Burn Unit name may be bad? essentially all the burning, heating, and general fuel-fire-heat stuff in an orderly place, like a server cabinet, but larger
      • Mobile, and small makerspace plotting
      • A bit of filament drying, managment, and splicing work
      • Some software finding, not a good enough coder to do the Big work / benefit analysis and all that (...yet), but finding the potentially useful stuff gets that step done
      • Started getting VERy industrial, was looking up gas scrubbers, and towers for using ambient temp to concentrate solutions etc, and got LOST in all the CFD, and papers and aaaaaaaaaaaa, but ii did learn some stuff there
      • Intresting stuff in the rubble of "clean" coal, can be applied to charcoal and biomass easily (outside of oily-coals etc brown coal?)
        • Also india has a PILE of info on biomass, with all their rural infastructure plots
      • Main issue i am seeing is how to scale all this too
      • Did some look at cryogenic stuff, may need to see if User: Marcin dealt with this with all the funky sensors that need low kelvin temp, and all the crazyness in fusion research
        • Main small scale options seem to be thermo electric (pyramid of cells to compensate for growing inefficiency as the "stack" thickens), throttle valve (had a fancy name, someone did it for liquid nitrogen open source-ish/diy with a scuba pump, and a janky collection of stuff), turboexpansion may be possible, but turbines are complex, but perhaps with the right software, and an engineer devor thwo to throw at it?
      • In this, and in some of the burner things i ran into the issue of heat sinks/exchangers
        • We don't need industrial scale, and space isn't often a concern so aluminum or "less optimal" metals could work? I heard of people using Computer stuff, but the PRICES
        • Lot of design issues in these (all the optimization, thermal models?, etc)
        • But liquid-liquid heat exchangers, and solid/liquid->air heat exchangers are a big need (especially small "chip" size designs?
      • At unf, and some recently some people online, melee games are huge, nintendo switch consoles and whatnot, may prefer the older controllers, or custom ones, but these can be either old, cheap crap, or obscenely overpriced "pro" stuff, also economy of scale etc
        • I think this could somewhat easily be open sourced (especially non-joystick stuff, just keyswitches), milled and put together with 3d printed + sanded cases etc and be a good product
        • Not too "useful" but some people hopped on that "fidget spinner hype" in elementary schools etc and made some serious money for their print farm etc
      • Also i think marcin or someone was doing something on low level ar for assemblies
        • i am a HUGE ar/vr/mr nerd, so can help with that, know all the snob terms, current products, main lacking stuff is code+game design etc (blender can do this; has it's own game engine etc, don't know it's capability etc"), and hardware. I have a nice (plastic frame + glass lens) google cardboard, a pretty nice spartphone, and some kickstarter vr add on that adds 6dof to pc tethered pc cardboard, but is buggy, android based as of now, and is mainly for asia markets (can't read most info/ software is geo locked etc etc), and have a good pc grade laptop so i could definetly run things for testing etc
    • QUITE A WORDWALL, but i think that's about it, and i plan to post a pile of stuff, and think out loud sort of on the slack, so go there to dive into the mess/bounce ideas off me/give me some task (Sheltering in place right now and for quite a while (north florida is hit kinda bad, supply chains good (not nyc etc), but still pretty bad), so i don't have much to do so can be delegated, to what i am capable of doing
    • Also trying to learn freecad, but got a bit stuck, will try fiddlingaround more in there, once i "get" that the things i can do...
  • As always ask for clarification if need be, and you know where to contact me

4/6/2020

  • Day whatever of shelter in place
  • GOING TO LEARN FREECAD
  • Doing this tutorial first:

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Creating_a_simple_part_with_PartDesign

Getting lost in meus/UI

constrained sketched and extruded everything

If i remember correctly freecad calls extruding a sketch Padding?

All i need to do is select the centered hole and negative extrude, or use a dedicated drill function, but i can't seem to do that. Must be on my end (obiously), but i am thoroughly lost on that one

3/10/2020

Started with some small stuff, then did some more work on the 3d print enclosure after a relevant email reply, and some tinkering in the tinkercad file (ps tinkercad is bad)

Then did some muckraking looking for the OpenRC controller files, got nothing, may be a dead end outside of their concept + guides + diagrams

Then did some fire saftey stuff

Then did some wire managment + spicing stuff

Finally Did some stuff on ink for stamps and pens etc

3/10/2020

Ive been volunteering a local animal shelter so was busy walkin dogs and pettin cats etc so not spamming the wiki with AS much edits

Was watchin some youtube and saw 2 intresting diy/open source 3d printers one was for binder jetting, and the other seemed like an entirely new process

Made pages for both of those

Then moved on to some more electron tech stuff, been obsessing over it recently (CRTs and Vacuum Tubes etc), perhaps User:Marcin can help with their degree? not high priority but EBM is one HELL of a 3D Printing tech

Also updated/refined a half baked construction set on stuff i don't really understand

Still plotting my makerspace in a box ideas

Trying to get that 3D Printer Enclosure all put together and ready for anyone to easily make, as well as make an ose adaption perhaps + aid in the original development (sent an email to the designer for collaboration request)

Moved back to some lighting tech

Sulfur lamps are really intresting, but are underdeveloped and may go into the graveyard with thin CRTs, Mechanical PCs and other thech that is possible yet not FULLY developed due to focus on other tech, will tinkker with it some day

LEDs THOUGH, can make full on daylight at night, some require watercooling which is hilariously excessive sounding

Then went from there to watercooling

Then moved on to efficiency stuff

Finally Did some template outlines (FINALLY), outlined some ideas i had for improving these templates, and added MOAR MACROS.

I have officially used up all 5 of my laptop's macro keys...

Time to turn that yard sale keyboard into a macro keyboard, gotta grab that label maker...

Thats about it

2/27/2020

Added some more semi-useful stuff:

A PILE of Redirects (May want to make a bot or somthing as it can get VERY tedious, even with macros and C+P)

More info on Geodesic Domes

Stuff on Cement Impregnated Fabric

Stuff on some road stuff

Some high tech agriculture stuff, I would DEFINELY reccomend the series of videos on the "Plant Factory" page, very in depth and intresting. (i THINk they posted their sources too, could be a good information mine)

2/26/2020

OOOOOF

Did a pile of semi-useful stuff

ADHD Hyperfocusing + Caffeine really does wonders...

WILL TRY TO START LOGING AGAIN

hours are inprecise based off of the "Recently Changed" page, I did take occasional breaks adjusting other tabs, messing with glitchy hardware, and a dinner break, so time is only semi-accurate.

Today I:

  • Did some page organisation and increasing links/redirects
  • Added some more info on
    • Composites
    • Metallurgy
    • Cathodic Protection
    • Precious Plastic's Work
    • Other Various stuff that popped in my head, or that I rabbit holed into
    • Also suggested some bots, my coding experience is little if any, so esentiall armchair thinking (There as well as many other places lol), but these would improve efficiency, productivity, and accuracy, as well as encourage international collaboration, so they may be worth investing some time (Especially all you programmers out there)

I also don't know the limitations of what we CAN code for the wiki

  • Chrome Plugins, and Window/Linux Software, may be a way around this, but sound like even more of a mess

10/24/2019

  • Haven't logged in forever
  • It's geting pretty late so my contributions are starting to get pretty sloppy so i'll stop now
  • Watched a bunch of videos by the youtube channel "Thought Emporiom"
  • Due to that I FOUND A MAKERSPACE IN JACKSONVILLE!
  • Then I found out that that one shut down due to funding issues, so i'm still looking (although I did find out they still do hackathons etc, they jusdt don't have a space. I did contact them and will see what comes from that)
  • I made a poster design for collecting intrested people to start an OSE Club at UNF
  • I am debating doing so as it is a lot of work, and uni is rough enough as is for my ADHD self, but IT'S TEMPTING
  • Recently I have Been Attempting to instal OSE Linux on a live usb, but it has been a bit glitchy, so I'm still working on that
  • I have contacted a few people on youtube to see if they would like to collaborate so we will se what comes from that\

--Eric (talk) 5:36, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

12/28/2019

  • Started A Python Tutorial

4/18/19

Today I:

4/17/19

Today I:

4/16/19

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.

4/15/19

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.

4/14/19

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.

4/13/19

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.

4/12/19

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.

4/11/19

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.

4/10/19

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.

4/9/19

Today I:

4/8/19

Today I:

7/05/18

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.
  • Did some research on thermal storage + made some new construction sets to go with this

7/04/18

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.
  • Watched the Latest Dev Meeting

7/03/18

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.

7/02/18

Today I:

7/01/18

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.

6/30/18

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.

6/29/18

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.

6/28/18

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.
  • Watched all of the recent video uploads by Marcin
  • Watched the Dev Team Meeting

Also I have bee pretty unstable recently, so work has kind of died down, but hopefully I will improve soon. I will also update my log more later.

6/19/18

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.
  • Caught up on this log
  • Reread some old bookmarks and organized them (they were on bioluminescence, will put on a page later)

6/18/18

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages

6/17/18

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages

6/16/18

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages

6/15/18

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages

6/14/18

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages

6/13/18

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.
  • Did some work on researching + documenting cellulose solvents
  • Watched the Latest Dev Team Meeting

6/12/18

Today I:

6/11/18

Today I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.
  • Finished up finalizing the prepratory organizational work for the Open Source Digital Fabrication Construction Set (IE That has full pages for all the things in there (ie not just a "basics" section) ; All they need now is actual development (more planning, cad, bom, etc)

6/10/18

Today I:

6/9/18

Okay so I havent used this in a while, sorry about that. Going foreward I will try to be better about that.

TODAY I:

  • Read others' contributions + Orginizational changes + link additions to some pages.
  • Updated all of the Open Source Digital Fabrication Construction Set to the modern page organizational standard (ps the ebm devices need work but that will hapen some other time as I am getting tired and reckless
  • Updated my long neglected log
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