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Just finished this board for a friend.
http://www.brentmorelabs.com/2014/12/checkmate-ii/
http://www.brentmorelabs.com/2014/12/checkmate-ii/
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I've made a few and I'm rather comfortable with the tools and techniques, so it only took about 10 minutes for the cuts and arrangements. Glue-up and finishing takes the most time. Whole project can be done in an afternoon minus finishing, which can take a few hours or days depending on the finish.
Just posted this in the Mac Setup thread, but maybe this is a bit more appropriate.
New nightstand, 2 dead G5s and some old shelving, stained black.
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New nightstand, 2 dead G5s and some old shelving, stained black.
Excellent! I'll bet you 90% of MacRumors have no idea who that is.
I think 90% of the population wouldn't know, plus I spelled it wrong its a lithophane - Even my spell checker doesn't know !
edit: who, not what Ok.
Quite a bit before my time but love that 60's rock and like to do iconic figures.
I grew up in the 60's For me that was the best period in rock. I like the 70's as well except when disco became popular. The 80's mostly sucked, but the 90's had some great music. I won't even talk about the music made today. It will say it blows.
I guess you'd have to be a real old fogey to know anything about this guy !
Haven't been doing these long, this is the 2nd one I did about 4 months ago, 1st one was Marylin Monroe.
["Speckled" effect is within the corian itself, some like it some don't, I like it better than plain white].
Haven't been doing these long, this is the 2nd one I did about 4 months ago, 1st one was Marylin Monroe.
["Speckled" effect is within the corian itself, some like it some don't, I like it better than plain white].
I was born in 1952, so yes I certainly know who that is. I still have some of his 45's.
I made the the box on the left. It's a turn on delay for my bedside Headphone setup which includes 2 Headphone Amplifiers, and a CD Player. In case of power failure, it waits 60 seconds of stable power before slowly powering up my sensitive electronics again. It actually ramps up the voltage rather than instantly applying 120 Volts. I made a few of these. Coupled with my Brickwall Surge Protectors I have on all my equipment, I'll never have a power surge/failure related electronic failure. BTW, it's in a corner of my bedroom you can't see, so being pretty doesn't matter..
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Why wouldn't they? My boxes are fused with 2 amp fast blo fuses just in case there's short circuit or overload. I don't play with fire. I've been doing this professionally for well over 30 years without a problem..
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I totally get your concern. Fear not, I'm well in control of my environment. Even more so than the so called government experts here in the USA think they know. My theory is go far and beyond UL listings. This way I know I will never have have a fire hazard in my house. My bedroom circuit has a 20 amp slow blo circuit breaker, and yet I fuse my delay circuits with 2 amp FAST BLO circuit fuses. A fraction of the capacity of the wall outlet. How can anything go wrong if the worst happens???
Afraid not, my school has a machine you put the materials in and it does all the hard work.
My genshi.box
Well, here is something I made all by myself. Last year there was a thread about companies like Facebook selling your browsing habits to advertisers, giving out your private info to the government, etc. and I had posted my project (that would save us all from the likes of Facebook) along with a link to my crowdfunding campaign, but the Mods here deleted it claiming it was "advertisement". It wasn't, it was relevant to the discussion, and I had a solution to share...
Fast forward a year later, the crowdfunding failed because nobody "got" what it was about (even though now HP and Seagate - along with a couple of other start-ups who saw my idea - are releasing similar solutions, though without half the features my box had) and since the project is basically dead-in-the-water (well, not dead, just on hold indefinitely) I thought I'd share the photos of it here (but no links here! So it's not advertising!)
It is a "Personal Social Networking Appliance" giving the user complete control of all of their own information, but as easy to use (actually easier) than an Apple TV. Wireless, battery operated, mesh networking and so much more; this was an actual working prototype that I had made myself (I did the industrial design, did the [modified] engineering of the guts based on the Beagleboard Black platform, and did the programming of both the front-end and back-end.) I worked hard on this, so it's a shame it didn't go anywhere...
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Well, here is something I made all by myself. Last year there was a thread about companies like Facebook selling your browsing habits to advertisers, giving out your private info to the government, etc. and I had posted my project (that would save us all from the likes of Facebook) along with a link to my crowdfunding campaign, but the Mods here deleted it claiming it was "advertisement". It wasn't, it was relevant to the discussion, and I had a solution to share...
Fast forward a year later, the crowdfunding failed because nobody "got" what it was about (even though now HP and Seagate - along with a couple of other start-ups who saw my idea - are releasing similar solutions, though without half the features my box had) and since the project is basically dead-in-the-water (well, not dead, just on hold indefinitely) I thought I'd share the photos of it here (but no links here! So it's not advertising!)
It is a "Personal Social Networking Appliance" giving the user complete control of all of their own information, but as easy to use (actually easier) than an Apple TV. Wireless, battery operated, mesh networking and so much more; this was an actual working prototype that I had made myself (I did the industrial design, did the [modified] engineering of the guts based on the Beagleboard Black platform, and did the programming of both the front-end and back-end.) I worked hard on this, so it's a shame it didn't go anywhere...
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Shark Tank it!
But in all seriousness, have you tried shopping it to larger companies? Either sell the idea/design/product as a whole or license the technology to other companies? If you couldn't get it off the ground on your own, why not try making *some* sort of return on it?