The next few months...

[zappman]

I t looks like they did a great job installing your driveway!

[Chris Savage]

I t looks like they did a great job installing your driveway!

They did, though late. So we'll see how it holds up over the years. How are you doing?

[Chris Savage]

I haven't posted here in a while. Winter saw many indoor projects to take care of. But I have good news. The next two weekends are going to be relatively slow, so I have a list of articles that don't need much to wrap up and I'm going to work on them both this weekend and next weekend.

My wife will be watching football this weekend, so I will be in the workshop most of the time. As I wrap some of the partial projects, I will update in the stub threads in the Savage///Circuits forum area.

[Chris Savage]

This thread dying off should have been a sign that I was caught up on the "home" projects that delayed many of my own projects. However, all the changes in 3D printing that have occurred at Savage//Circuits HQ have really distracted me from my some of my original goals.

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Ironically, as the 3D prints have been piling up on my workbench, preventing me from getting things done, parts that have arrived have landed in piles on the bench, exacerbating things. The result is a real conundrum.


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As if that wasn't bad enough, my soldering bench was the next place to become inundated with 3D printing and incoming / unsorted parts.


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To the right of the soldering bench is my tool cart, some shelves and my laser cutter bench. I couldn't get to the laser cutter now if I wanted to! The plastic shelf at the bottom used to be under the 3D Printer bench and was removed when I installed the track shelves, however, I didn't finish dealing with it, and now it's covered in crap too!


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Ironically, this bench is supposed to be my sorting area for things that need to be organized and put away. It got to be soooo bad I moved to the aforementioned places. So yeah, welcome to my world. Last night I started putting things away. I think the rest of this week will see me continuing on that trajectory, since I really need my workbench and can't access it.

[granz]

Be careful - your place is beginning to look like mine.

The picture of your shelves reminds me that I still have not put shelves up for my filament storage.  The trouble is that we are planning on moving in another year, or so, and so I do not want to mess up the walls with screw holes, or wall anchors. So, I have been thinking of just putting up a piece of plywood behind my printing desk, and screwing the shelf holders to that rather than the wall. Still mulling it over.

[Chris Savage]

Be careful - your place is beginning to look like mine.

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Well, if that wasn't enough, while sorting and arranging these shelves, I had to remove much of what was piled on there.


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This is where the excess sits...I so need more shelving. 

[MicroNut]

Do what my wife suggests for our cluttered storage... use some well place TNT! I have one small room with a desk that got so cluttered that you could barely see it. I did go through it and put everything in small storage tub. The problem is no organization! If I need a Pico 2 WH, I need to search through all the tubs until I find it. I think I'll spend the first year or so of retirement reorganizing the house.

[granz]

Do what my wife suggests for our cluttered storage... use some well place TNT! I have one small room with a desk that got so cluttered that you could barely see it. I did go through it and put everything in small storage tub. The problem is no organization! If I need a Pico 2 WH, I need to search through all the tubs until I find it. I think I'll spend the first year or so of retirement reorganizing the house.

I have considered the TNT, idea.

[JKnightandKARR]

Lol Think we all have this issue... my stuff is in totes... ok n desktops.. lol

Do what my wife suggests for our cluttered storage... use some well place TNT! I have one small room with a desk that got so cluttered that you could barely see it. I did go through it and put everything in small storage tub. The problem is no organization! If I need a Pico 2 WH, I need to search through all the tubs until I find it. I think I'll spend the first year or so of retirement reorganizing the house.

New n potenrially leathal project idea!! 3d print some TNT n put sound device in that plays the Minecraft TNT sounds n then hand it to your wife. Lol If it gets chucked at your head, that's where the potentiall leathal part comes in. Lol

[JKnightandKARR]

Do what my wife suggests for our cluttered storage... use some well place TNT! I have one small room with a desk that got so cluttered that you could barely see it. I did go through it and put everything in small storage tub. The problem is no organization! If I need a Pico 2 WH, I need to search through all the tubs until I find it. I think I'll spend the first year or so of retirement reorganizing the house.

I have considered the TNT, idea.

See my previous post. Lol

[granz]

Lol Think we all have this issue... my stuff is in totes... ok n desktops.. lol

Do what my wife suggests for our cluttered storage... use some well place TNT! I have one small room with a desk that got so cluttered that you could barely see it. I did go through it and put everything in small storage tub. The problem is no organization! If I need a Pico 2 WH, I need to search through all the tubs until I find it. I think I'll spend the first year or so of retirement reorganizing the house.

New n potenrially leathal project idea!! 3d print some TNT n put sound device in that plays the Minecraft TNT sounds n then hand it to your wife. Lol If it gets chucked at your head, that's where the potentiall leathal part comes in. Lol

Joe, you really like playing with fire, don't you?

[Chris Savage]

Do what my wife suggests for our cluttered storage... use some well place TNT!

I don't know how many of you are familiar with the game, Counterstrike, but this suggestion reminds me of not only the game, but a "Prop" I built many years ago when paint-ball was very popular for teams playing this scenario. Counterstrike had a mode called, Bomb Defusal.

There used to be a project on the original Savage///Circuits website (long lost to time now) that was a replica of the C4 pack in the game. It had a button at each end that had to be held for a certain number of seconds in order to plant it. The CT then had to ""diffuse" it by holding these buttons in for 10 seconds before the timer expired. If you had the "diffuse kit", you could plug that in and the timer was cut in half.

I would love to recreate that project. It was fun and the replica could be used to simulate the game. It had the flashing light, the loud beep, etc. The buttons were designed to be too far apart to be pressed with one hand. Very cool. This thread got me thinking about that project and the possibility of recreating it again.

[granz]

I would love to recreate that project. It was fun and the replica could be used to simulate the game. It had the flashing light, the loud beep, etc. The buttons were designed to be too far apart to be pressed with one hand. Very cool. This thread got me thinking about that project and the possibility of recreating it again.

That sounds interesting, and most of our printers can print something big enough that someone could not press buttons on two opposite sides of the printed item. Our new-ish 3D printer technology should be able to make the manufacturing of this "bomb" much easier.

[Chris Savage]

That sounds interesting, and most of our printers can print something big enough that someone could not press buttons on two opposite sides of the printed item. Our new-ish 3D printer technology should be able to make the manufacturing of this "bomb" much easier.

So true! I thought about this some time ago when I saw the following model on MakerWorld. It would be so much easier to 3D print than do it the way I did back then.

[JKnightandKARR]

@granz more fun that way. Lol