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#120 – Prototyping, Machining & Accelerators- Mugwumps Mulling Milling

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  2. In an interesting bit of timing I was listening to you guys discuss hacking together a cellphone charger when the power is out, and when reading Hackaday saw a guy who did just that:

    http://goo.gl/Bxa5u

    about halfway down the page.

    Thanks for the show, it’s was entertaining as usual.

  3. Chris, i think you’ll find if you look very very close at the main chip on your Raspberry Pi you’ll see its actually two packages. The Broadcom one is on the bottom and the Samsung RAM chip is soldered on top.

    • Damn, how could I forget the QLD floods. I even paid a flood levy on this years tax return. Pretty rare though to happen on that scale in a major city here though, compared to many other countries. It’s only happened there one other time in the last 100 years.
      We are a country of “drought and flooding rains” of course.

    • Hey Nick, when I first saw that posted on the DP RSS, I thought it was quite genious.

      Everything is looking more 3D these days. Perhaps it would be interesting to build your LCs so that they can stack vertically too? Beat Xilinx, Altera and Lattice at their game!

  8. I have a CNC and Laser cutter! So much fun! Making stuff out of wood and acrylic…
    I’ll never get a 3D printer. Plastic parts all day long…. Bleh!

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  10. I built my own CNC machine with a harbor freight mini-mill and LinuxCNC- the hard part I’ve found is the software to take something from idea to G-code (what most CNCs understand). The software packages I’ve found to be aimed at super basic things in a proprietary format or at professional machine shops that can amortize the very high startup. Now that I’ve got one in the area, I think a TechShop membership is overall *LOTS* cheaper.

  11. Hey Chris,

    I want to hear more about your CNC adventure. In other words, I want to hear all of your mistakes so I don’t have to make them too. 🙂

    Making enclosures, gears, molds for cold casting all sound cool to me. Anyway, speak up about it, please.

    • Hey Jeremy,
      It’s been dormant for a long time, but I plan to write about it and make videos over at “Chris Gammell’s Analog Life“. You’d think I’d stop introducing myself with that title since I don’t do anything there currently (same goes for ChipReport.tv), but if that was the case, I’d intro myself as “And I’m Chris Gammell from my bed because I’ve needed to catch up on sleep” 🙂

      • Just wait until you have kids. You’ll think you’ll make time for these things, but nope. 😉

        Again, I encourage you to do all of the leg work for me and the rest of the world, I guess.