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Welding Hood progress, Cedar wood turning

1/31/2020

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Made some progress on the welding hood last night. I hope to get some duct work this weekend. Also installed a MIG gun holster.
I turned some cedar on the lathe. It smells great. 
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Parts List and Cut Sheets for Autocad Fusion 360

1/30/2020

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Autocad Fusion 360 is a CAD program that is free for  hobbyists. I used it to design an enclosure for my CNC machine at home. All of the parts (plywood and foam) are rectangles of various sizes. There are 30 pieces and writing down the dimensions of 30 rectangles would be boring.

So, I found a free plug-in to export a parts list with dimensions. Then I found a free program to layout the parts on the stock plywood and foam sheets. The program samples a million possibilities to find the most efficient layout. It was written by Gary Darby and is on the Delphi for Fun page.

Here are the links/files:
Parts list Fusion plugin CSV-BOM
Cut list program

You have to re-arrange the CSV-BOM layout a little, then open the text file in the cut list program.
Here is the text file. "Required" is a list of the parts  you need. "Available" is a list of the stock available. "Decimalseparator." may not be needed, not sure
###
Decimalseparator.
 
Required
48    48    btm
48    48    top
48    36    front
48    36    back
46.5    36    left
46.5    36    right

Available
  48.   96.000 T
  48.   96.000 T
  48.   96.000 T
  48.   96.000 T
  48.   96.000 T
  48.   96.000 T
###

Here is the output of the cut list program:
cnc_enclosure_wood_parts.pdf
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Fun tool night last night

1/30/2020

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We had a bunch of projects going on last night. We set up the wood planer and router table. Others were working on coding and robot projects. 
​We made a 'live-edge' mouse pad from a piece of firewood. You can see the progress below. Probably not really useful as a mouse pad, but a fun project. 
Picture
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Upcoming events:

1/28/2020

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Tool training Wednesday is tomorrow. I plan to set up the wood planer, but will meet with anyone who wants to learn anything else. I also might try out our new welder.
Thursday is a Wood Turning night, same deal. Members can bring a wood blank if you want to make something. Get them from Mann Tools. About 10x10x3 inches is good
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New Tools are Here!

1/27/2020

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We got our new tools! They include:
  • Titanium 140 welder - flux core mig welder adaptable to gas shielding and aluminum welding later
  • Wood planer
  • Router and table
  • Metal chop saw
  • Metal horizontal/vertical band saw
  • Large anvil
  • Jig saw
  • Electric sander
  • Dremel tool and kit
  • Assorted stuff:
    • Forstner bits
    • Brad bits
    • Sandpaper
    • etc.
Come to Tool Training Wednesday to get caught up on our new tools!
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Python group learn was a great success!

1/27/2020

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We had our first group learn on Python last night. It was great. We followed an online video class. If you want to come to the next one, but feel you will be behind, don't worry. We spent two hours and only got through about 8 mins of video!
Many thanks to our more experienced members for guiding us!
The next one will probably be this weekend. Keep an eye on the calendar.
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Cola Makerspace Twitter account

1/23/2020

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We now have a twitter account for when checking email or facebook is just too taxing, ha ha. Our account is @ColaMakerspace. 

On the other hand, it might not be working yet, stay tuned

1/24/20 - Ok, now twitter is working. We will cross post our blogs to facebook and twitter. 
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Group Learn: Python

1/23/2020

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Meet at 6 pm this Sunday Jan 26. This is group learning, not a class, per se. We can follow Lynda courses, youtube, etc. My first goal is to learn to automate boring stuff, like renaming files. Should be fun!
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Soap Box Derby Race April 25, 2020

1/20/2020

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Who wants to race a soap box derby car? Everyone!
West Columbia is having a race soon. Anyone interested in building a car? 
https://www.kineticderbyday.com/
Tires:
https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/category_tires-wheels+spoked-wheels+pneumatic-spoked-wheels
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General Hang Out Wednesday 6 pm

1/20/2020

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We are going to meet up and hang out at the space this Wednesday 6 pm to around 8. Lots of fun last time, thanks to the new people! We can also do some training - bring any files you want to try out on our laser cutter, etc.
Shopsmith - we have a donated shopsmith in need of some parts. On Wednesday I'd like get the model number and identify the parts we need. See this link:
 https://shopsmith.com/service/index.htm
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