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#making

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Anthony Horton

I felt a strong urge to *make* something, for the sake of my mental health.

About a year and a half ago the kid saw a bubble gun in a toy shop and expressed an interest, I said it would be fairly easy to make one, they said "go on then", I bought a bunch of parts, and then failed to do anything further.

This evening I finally dug everything out again and did a breadboard test of all the electromechanical bits. It looks like that side of things will work OK.

Photo of a work bench covered in electromechanical parts, including a battery holder, a fan, a motor, a button, and an electronic prototyping breadboard with many jumper wires plugged into it.
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Quixoticgeek

Today's parts. There's 80mm deep 10mm hole in the far ends. Tolerance is such that the 10mm shoulder on the end of the second bar, makes a delightful popping sound when pulled out of the first bar. They aren't actually supposed to go together like that. But hey.

Now I have one more pair of bronze parts to make, and then that's all the lathe work done.

Two polished steel bars with a shoulder on one end. Next to it are a pair of steel caps made to fit over the shoulder.
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Quixoticgeek

Have a motor, and a part that need to attach together, the design is based on a coupler that is sold by a store in aus. It's very much not sensible to try and get the part from aus.

So I'm gonna make it. I have access to a machine shop afterall. But before I can machine it I need to finalise the design.

Rapid prototyping to the rescue. A few mins with openscad to make a 3d model, throw into a slicer, and now it's printing on the resin printer.

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