this has to be the craziest fastener I’ve ever seen
smoke and mirrors
got some new safety glassesFriend of mine bought this ridonkulous custom-converted electric car for like a few thousand dollars
Some (still unedited) photos I took on a recent boat camping trip
Once I knew the exact structure of the ceiling I could do these much more detailed models of the steel anchor frames. We designed the single-crossbar version first, but will probably go with the the square version. They will be held up there by 3/8”x8” lag screws. I used an online structural engineering fastener load calculator to calculate a load rating of about 750lbs per screw. So with 8 of those screws, that square design will be rated for 6000lbs!
Had to drill holes in the ceiling to figure out what exactly we can anchor to in this apartment. It’s an old converted industrial building (used to be a Wonderbread bakery lol) so it turns out the ceiling is basically solid lumber under the drywall, unlike a normal modern building which would be lumber joists every 16 inches. This is great because it means we will have a much easier time fastening the extremely safety-critical steel anchor frames up there.
Modeled the apartment in Sketchup and brought it into Unity, which will help us prototype things like lighting and camera anglesHelping my friend design an aerial performance and recording setup for her new apartment. The thing hanging from the ceiling is a cube because she designs/fabricates/welds her own aerial performance apparatuses, one of which is a cube
Kiwi enjoying his new catio
Order has been restored to the bathroom
Printed two of them. One for me, one for my housemate
Did something super quick in sketchup. There are holes in the bottom to make sure any water drains out
Have been bummed about this bathroom sink situation for months now. Hate having all this stuff cluttered on the sink.
Cut the mural down a bit on the top and bottom and sealed it with a spray can of polyurethane
We built the shed!
This mural was floating around the dirty Box Shop for probably at least a year, so I scrubbed it with a power drill brush to get all the grime off. Then I rinsed it down with a pressure washer. Important to keep the pressure washer at least like a foot away to avoid damaging the paint.
Found this abandoned mural on some scrap plywood in the box shop. Going to trim it down and put it up in my friend’s apartment
Little House on the Prius
(we bought a shed for the back of the compound)
My friend needed a kitchen counter, so I bought a broken coffee table for $10, saved the hardwood top, sanded it, rounded the corners, stained it, and we put it on this old dresser. Not bad for scrap materials and a few hours
My housemate got picked up in this the other day
kiwi
Making a catio for Kiwi at the compound
Castle before launching
Last weekend I did a camping trip with my friends where the theme was "Bring Every Vehicle". We brought my Prius, a RAV4, a Subaru Outback, 2 razor scooters, a stand-up paddleboard, a pair of off-road motorcycles, my boat, and an airplane! Here are some of my favorite photos from the trip:
It worked!!!
So far so good! Headed off to Clear Lake. If this works, we will have a working solution for transporting the tender vessel for the bouncy castle (aka Castle Bravo)!
So far so good! Headed off to Clear Lake. If this works, we will have a working solution for transporting the tender vessel for the bouncy castle (aka Castle Bravo)!
Last night I built this crazy rack system to transport my boat on top of my car. Tonight I will find out if it works!
Time to clean the castle!I made a floating motorized bouncy castle. Will be talking more about this project in #mr-cwalkers-wild-ride for those who are interestedJust picked up 70 empty vanilla flavoring jugs today. Car smells great.
Remember everyone: ALWAYS REDUNDANTLY SECURE YOUR LOADS. You can never have enough ratchet straps. And check them as you drive! During one of my checks today, I discovered the temperature drop after sunset caused the containers to shrink a bit, loosening the straps. Never would’ve been able to anticipate that!
Had a bit of a revelation: I can 3D print my own woodworking jigs! This is amazing!!
Progress…
Progress…
Planning session last week
I did it 😌
Any guesses what I’m doing with this thing?
Just picked up three 55gal water drums. On my way to get a fourth.
Note the arrangement of straps: using 3 straps, every barrel is redundantly secured. If any single strap fails, the barrels all stay on. Always safely secure your loads, it is a life-or-death matter for drivers behind you!
Skid plate is on! Forgot to take a “before” photo but basically it was a bunch of trashed, hanging bits of plastic from all the damage I’ve done taking this car where it doesn’t belong.
Just got a bunch of badass new hardware from my buddy Eric at PriusOffroad. This is going to enable an awesome new project I’m super excited to tell you all about ^_^
From a mural I did in Washington a few months backroot system
Plasma cuttin
The first of eleven Elders for my sculpture. Still WIP
Built a jig to align the two big loopy roots on each Elder
roots
$33,053
wednesday
ALL-FUN!
Today I got a CAT B35 with KaiOS. This phone and operating system are amazing. This is the future for the billions of people in the world still locked out of the smartphone market by the high price of entry, low durability, wastefulness, short battery life, complexity, unhackability, and general presumption of wealth endemic to the Android/Apple hardware ecosystems.
I'm so happy that people are taking my stupid wacky off-the-cuff written copy seriously enough to post it here ^_^
*GPARDY!*
Maple SapPart Deux:
End of the Line
If you've ever wondered how they harvest sap for large maple syrup operations…
Goin' camping
Meanwhile, above the golf courseJust a month after its inception, the Chenyang family garden is off the hook.
Not the happiest feature, but I just finished the command that we use to reject applications for hardware grants! I've been putting this one off because I don't like rejecting people :(
