Small Parts Tray (https://makerworld.com/en/models/1391450-small-parts-tray#profileId-1441741) - I am often trying to get little screws and other hardware into the little ziplock bags and this saves a lot of hair. ;)
(https://makerworld.bblmw.com/makerworld/model/US9c666fac39ad98/design/2025-05-06_d85e24594027b.jpg)
Nice. I bought one of the dispenser trays that pharmacists use for bottling drugs a couple years ago. I use it to sort out jelly beans, and other small candies, into small "doses" and put them into small bags. This limits the amount of candy that I eat at a time to the recommended serving size - trying to cut my sugars/carbohydrates to keep my blood sugar down.
When I was working at Parallax, I also created a project that I didn't have the chance to publish. It was a parts counter. You would dump screws, nuts, etc into the hopper and it would counter out specific numbers into containers. I'm thinking I should rebuild this at some point.
That sounds pretty cool. It would be really useful for preparing kits/packages of hardware.
I don't remember seeing this before. Have you written it up before?
Quote from: granz on Apr 17, 2026, 09:38 PMThat sounds pretty cool. It would be really useful for preparing kits/packages of hardware. I don't remember seeing this before. Have you written it up before?
I had roughly 6 projects ready to publish in Nuts and Volts as well as Servo magazine when I got the news that I was being laid off. After that, all projects stopped. I lost everything that was in storage, so I have to start over on many things. But I remember almost all the details.
Quote from: Chris Savage on Apr 17, 2026, 11:01 PMI had roughly 6 projects ready to publish in Nuts and Volts as well as Servo magazine when I got the news that I was being laid off. After that, all projects stopped. I lost everything that was in storage, so I have to start over on many things. But I remember almost all the details.
That is one of the troubles that I have with losing data. I often remember the gist of the matter, but forget many of the fine details of the write-up. Although, often when rewriting a piece, I end up with more details in the rewrite, it isn't quite the same.
Quote from: Chris Savage on Apr 17, 2026, 09:51 AMSmall Parts Tray (https://makerworld.com/en/models/1391450-small-parts-tray#profileId-1441741) - I am often trying to get little screws and other hardware into the little ziplock bags and this saves a lot of hair. ;)
(https://makerworld.bblmw.com/makerworld/model/US9c666fac39ad98/design/2025-05-06_d85e24594027b.jpg)
Ok That's handy
Quote from: granz on Apr 18, 2026, 06:15 AMThat is one of the troubles that I have with losing data. I often remember the gist of the matter, but forget many of the fine details of the write-up. Although, often when rewriting a piece, I end up with more details in the rewrite, it isn't quite the same.
It's 50 / 50 with me. I find some of the projects I recreate aren't as robust as the original, mainly because I forgot much of what I put into it, with much of that being inspired by my time in Tech Support.
The other 50% are better before of additional experience, reflection, and not using Parallax products for some of them.
Quote from: Chris Savage on Apr 18, 2026, 05:32 PMIt's 50 / 50 with me. I find some of the projects I recreate aren't as robust as the original, mainly because I forgot much of what I put into it, with much of that being inspired by my time in Tech Support.
The other 50% are better before of additional experience, reflection, and not using Parallax products for some of them.
That's probably about a similar ratio for me.