Today I dig into something that part of me wanted to do for myself. I wanted to take the opportunity of building an IO library for the OrangePi Zero as both a learning experience and to better understand the inner workings. However, in the interest of time, and because I found the OrangePi modified WiringPi … Read more2020-01-27 Worklog – LazyNet
I figured that I would be only updating this on the weekends, there just isn’t enough time during the week to sit down and put in a meaningful amount of work. There is definitely something to say about a solid block of dedicated working time juxtaposed to many sporadic working sessions. It takes a lot … Read more2020-01-24 Work Log – 3D Printer
I spent some more time working on Ardudish documentation today. It’s a bit cathartic, and a bit ‘I told you so’. Well, maybe not as drastic as that. I guiltily acknowledge that creating documentation is a very important task for DURING a project. I feel bad for being so behind in documenting the project as … Read more2020-01-18 Work Log – ArduDish
The need to print items for the dishwasher has reminded me that I am still lacking a printer. So I decided to spend a little bit of time working on some draft parts for my new-to-me corexy machine. One of the major components needed to complete the printer is an extruder mount. I purchased a … Read more2020-01-17 Work Log – 3D Printer
I’m spending some time on the 3D model for the V3 of the dishwasher hardware. I made a dedicated PCB (see above) for the control interface that has a slightly larger form factor than an Arduino Mega. This permits four mounting holes to stick out past the Arduino when mounted in the stack. The previous version used a clip that grabbed onto the top PCB in the stack. It worked, but there was always the chance that the relatively heavy stack would slowly slip off the header pins.