Sat 27 March 2010

Med-o-Mat

Da soll bitte noch einmal jemand die Nase rümpfen über die seltsamen Automaten in Japan:

med-o-mat

Med-o-Mat: Für den schnellen Prostatakrebstest zwischendurch…

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Tue 09 March 2010

New Cam

After my beloved Canon Ixus 55 was stolen with my backpack a couple weeks ago, I have bought a now photo camera. This time I did not get a Canon again but chose a Panasonic with the cryptic name DMC-FT2. Although this cameras functionality can not be extended with firmware hacks like Canon cameras with CHDK (yet) it features another nice trait: The tough housing is supposed be watertight up to a depth of 10m, drop, cold and pressure resistant.

I took some nice underwater/semiunderwater pics already and they look really good:

isar mit enten

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Thu 04 March 2010

Easterhegg 2010

Nach zwei Tagen Vorbereitestress und 5 Minuten vor Beginn auf der Bühne fertig gestellten Folien hat der RepRap-Vortrag wie am Schnürchen geklappt.
Sogar der RepMan hat trotz massivem Gezicke beim Testen nach dem Umzug in den Vortragsraum brav gedruckt, als es darauf ankam.

ehasenschnitzel

Das hasenförmiges Schnitzel gabs dann danach in der Weltwirtschaft :)

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Mon 15 February 2010

Osram crashed

osram crashed

Die LED-Installation vorm Osramhaus läuft also (nicht gescheit) mit Windows. %)

Interessanterweise ist nur eine Seite der Tafeln ausgefallen…

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Wed 28 October 2009

Keyvolution

I somehow managed to lost the key for the sliding door to my kitchen. It probably fell into a trash bag, which I sometimes hang on the knob of said door when they are full and ready to throw away.

Of course I have newer locked the door until now, but robbed of the possibility to do so, I was overcome by a sudden urge to be able to lock the if need should arise.

The boring way to get a new key, would probably have involved taking a picture of the lock, show it to a locksmith and hope to find a fitting key.

But since we have build a 3D-printer a couple of month ago and “missing” keys had been printed successfully already, I wanted to try to design and print a new kitchen key.

After measuring the dimensions of the keyhole I started designing the new key in HeeksCAD. After only 3 not so perfect key designs I managed to print a really nice looking, working, new key for my kitchen door.

Here you can see a progress of the design:

keyvolution

From left to right: First design in HeeksCAD | final design as .stl in HeeksCAD | Printpath preview in skeinforge with raft and support structure.

The printed keys:

keys

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