The Make Something Every Week Contest

[It's Me!]

This could go in here or in board games, but I'll put it here because I mades it. My print and play copy of Dual. 3D printed the coins and stars. Cards printed on 60# cardstock, laminated, cut and corner rounded. Grabbed the 8mm cubes from the stock I have from a bulk purchase awhile ago. Now to find someone to play it with.

Dual: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...?ref=user_menu

[Ari]

I made a box!
My previous air filter got used for a fire, the whole thing smelled like camp fire and was uncleanable so it got tossed, and I didn't feel like spending a few hundred dollars on what are two spinning drums, but I kept the replacement filters.

I was gifted what appears to be the top seller on amazon but after use the place smelled a bit like pencil shavings as if it was just kicking up the smallest of dust. So I adapted the old filters to the new trashcan form with a box and trash bag, there's a second filter on the opposite side.

After running it all day yesterday I came home to fresh clean smelling air, Success!

[ceptimus]

Sliding block puzzle games
(Warning - link definitely won't work properly on phones or tablets - you need a mouse).

I don't know if that link will work from here even on a real computer with a mouse. If it does, it should fire up a Commander X16 emulator (a bit like a Commodore 64 computer from the 80s) and run my PUZZ game in it. I've been porting the games over from the Amiga, on and off, over the last few weeks.

The mouse capture in the emulator is a bit clunky - I think you need to maximize the screen and perhaps press Ctrl-M to capture the mouse properly. If and when it works, you get a message saying that the 'app' has control of your mouse, and you have to press Esc to release it.

[Ari]

Emergency pack.

-Narcan and gloves, the entire point of the pack, anyone who wants to OD and die in front of me is going to need to put in some effort! The point and shoot camera case is a second narcan, I was amused it fits exactly in the little pouch.
Name brand from Amazon, Narcan 4mg 2 pack | Amazon
Generic from Amazon, Naloxone generic 4mg 2 pack | Amazon

-Multi tool,
-lighter,
-hand sanitizer/fuel,
-Bag of bags just because everythings in bags doesn't mean a few more bags might not be useful. With folded grocery store bag.
-Pads in three different sizes. I had no idea it's almost impossible to find a pads multipack.
-Benydryl, safety pins, ear plugs, hair ties.
-Bandages.

Missing,
-I would like to add a phone charger that uses alkaline batteries but the cheap amazon options seemed unreliable.
-Also would like to add an epipen but don't have easy access to one.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Ari

-Bag of bags just because everythings in bags doesn't mean a few more bags might not be useful. With folded grocery store bag.

This.

Totally irrelevant sidenote: when some English friends visiting South Africa they were bemused by room of roomys on a menu. A room containing smaller rooms?

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In Afrikaans, room is cream, of is or, ys is ice, so this means "with cream or ice cream".

[ceptimus]

This week, I've been designing a mechanical clock to print on my 3D printer. I've decided to use a Harrison Grasshopper Escapement, twin pivot variety.

I want a 30-tooth, 100 mm diameter escapement wheel, with a pendulum swing of 5 degrees either side of the centre line at the points where both pallets contact the teeth. The calculations to work out the optimum dimensions of the parts are tricky.

I let a 3D CAD program do most of the work for me, and this is what I've come up with.



Next step is to design and print some parts with those dimensions for a test escapement, and see if it works.