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s0 Traingirl Era<p>fuck yeah, just made a huge breakthrough in reverse-engineering this 20-year-old software implementing an undocumented protocol by Yamaha for remote head-amp gain control, without having one of the other end devices to test with!<br><a href="https://cathode.church/tags/Tinkering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tinkering</span></a> <a href="https://cathode.church/tags/s0Projects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>s0Projects</span></a></p>
s0 Traingirl Era<p>Hey hey HEy I spent today designing and laser cutting a box to fit the fan and filters and adapt to my 75mm pipe.</p><p>this thing is gonna work super well! Just put together the box and spun up the fan and there’s <em>so much</em> suction.</p><p>Now I just have to buy some air filters. It’s designed to take Toyota car cabin air filters, which are super cheap (literally like $10), rectangular, available with activated carbon media, and fit the fan size great.<br>The filter will just slot right in the top here (will be the side in operation)</p><p><a href="https://cathode.church/tags/s0Projects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>s0Projects</span></a> <a href="https://cathode.church/tags/Tinkering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tinkering</span></a></p>
s0 Traingirl Era<p>This baby is gonna be the centre of my DIY open hardware soldering fume extractor version 4.</p><p>Going to design a laser-cut box that adapts to any generic inlet pipe and fits off-the-shelf rectangular air filters.</p><p><a href="https://cathode.church/tags/tinkering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tinkering</span></a> <a href="https://cathode.church/tags/s0Projects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>s0Projects</span></a></p>
s0 Traingirl Era<p>Major project today was installing the new hotend assembly on Comrade the 3D printer.</p><p>Recently I’ve been wanting to redesign my already custom hotend/direct drive mount as the one I made a few years ago has always been an awkward shape, fitting an extruder assembly that was really designed to be front-mounted, not slung under the X gantry.</p><p>I found that someone designed a very cool custom mount for the TwoTrees SP-3/SP-5 series called the <a href="https://www.printables.com/model/169465-the-diamond-mount" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Diamond Mount</a>, and decided that it was ideal for my needs. I bought a new hotend with annular ceramic ‘volcano’ heater with integral nozzle thread, which is a very neat recent innovation, with much less mass than a normal volcano hotend block for better thermal performance.</p><p>So I spent the last few weeks printing and assembling the bits and pieces. Finally today I did the big job of rewiring everything up to the mount. The odd solder joint, and I added a few heat-shrink labels. Heat-shrink tube transfer labels are so cool.</p><p>I ran out of time to really fire things up and work out all the new settings to change for the extruder, hotend thermistor, fans, and work area. Maybe I can do some tomorrow?</p><p>Also need to fix up where the wiring goes from the mount to the split sheath. The stock design didn’t have enough space for all the extra wiring for probe, endstop and accelerometer, so I’ll have to modify the design a bit to fit them better.</p><p><a href="https://cathode.church/tags/Tinkering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tinkering</span></a> <a href="https://cathode.church/tags/s0Projects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>s0Projects</span></a></p>
s0 Traingirl Era<p>Ok let’s start off with this weekend. Project #1: design and print some brackets to mount this LED strip light over the bathroom mirror for makeup &amp; skincare.</p><p>I CADed it in Fusion as usual — they’re a simple extrusion, just with holes perpendicular to two of the faces. One clearance for a countersunk woodscrew, and one pilot hole for a small self-tapping screw attaching the springy clip for the LED strip.<br>(Photos to come.)</p><p>Sliced and printed 2 pieces in white PETG, in final orientation, to keep the holes round.</p><p>I mounted them up on the mirror, then screwed in the LED clips, and clipped in the LED strip.</p><p>The 45 degree angle was a good balance for a useful distance lighting the face at our height.</p><p>At my previous place I had two strips either side of the mirror for less shadow, but this works just fine.</p><p>To do:</p><ol><li>replace the overspecced 24V 2A brick PSU with a little wall wart, ideally in white</li><li>Somewhere I have a little DC inline PWM dimmer module with a capacitive touch pin — I want to see if I can wire that to the aluminium body of the lamp for touch control. If not, I’ll make a little 3D printed box attached to the side with that touch area.</li></ol><p><a href="https://cathode.church/tags/Tinkering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tinkering</span></a> <a href="https://cathode.church/tags/s0Projects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>s0Projects</span></a></p>
s0 Traingirl Era<p>I’d like to keep better track of all the little projects I work on through the next year. So I’m planning to continue with using <a href="https://cathode.church/tags/Tinkering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tinkering</span></a> but also add <a href="https://cathode.church/tags/s0Projects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>s0Projects</span></a> and try to remember to throw those on posts about my projects.</p><p>I wish there was some kind of post-facto categorisation here. Yes, I know the correct answer is “write a blog”. I need some way to do that with similarly low friction to just posting.</p>