That would be perfect for me. I really want to learn how to weld, but I don’t like the metal working mess. This is ideal!
There’s a joke that software engineers all want to buy a farm raising goats and retire. But I think we all secretly want to play with the welding simulator.
I wonder if my local school has one.
One of my computer vision projects was measuring the width of a weld pool in an IR camera attached to a welding 6dof robot. But never the opposite problem (simulation is sort of the opposite of computer vision).
I went to welding night classes and we used a welding simulator- the screen was built into a fake welding mask. It was from one of the welding manufacturers, the red one. I want to say Lincoln? Pretty cool.
For any random fitting you need to make, this OpenSCAD parametric file is really cool. I do not use openscad, but I was able to install it and spit out a simple fitting in <30min. Good for dust collection fittings.
Options:
Here are some of the fittings I printed. Everything seen was designed with the openscad file. I don’t have a good picture of it, but my favorite is at the bottom it is a 90deg elbow that goes from circular to rectangular x-section and includes an option to put a flat spot at a 45deg so it does not need supports to print.
so seeing the double nozzle, (and i have seen it alot and never thought of this before), I wonder what would happen if one nozzle lightly blew air to the suction nozzle, so there would be a circulation affect.
just a wild thought, maybe this summer I can try it.
You need a cutting torch and grinder. Start a lot more Wife has made me throw out so many ‘confortable’ shirts and jackets because of all the burned holes.
I saw that Milo video before, and thought the same “it only cuts a napkin” BUTTTT I also had an idea to make a LR3 style gantry on a croxy set up like the primo. Belts wouldnt be an issue, but the struts would be. So it might be more feasible to make a core that takes 2 rails in each direction, then brace them off at the trucks. But is it really needed?
A living CNC Machine. I didn’t know this was possible.
That’s a really nice conclusion too - and it sums up pretty well why my LR3 is really a tool for special jobs rather than the general all-rounder it is for many of you guys.
I have the tools and experience to cut stuff by hand mostly in the time it would take to make a drawing let alone mucking around with CAM, BUT as a hobbyist the tools and experience took a lifetime to acquire and of course mostly I am happy with accuracy to the width of a thick Sharpie.
There is joy and satisfaction either way, and I suspect as my brain gets foggier and my hands shakier, automation will become more important!
On that note, we completed our tour of a couple more campuses of that school this week and last with a visit to the robotics and controls kids, and probably coolest of all - the cyber-security labs, where two teams pit themselves against each other to take control of the services in a Lego city!
Wife has made me throw out so many ‘confortable’ shirts and jackets because of all the burned holes.
