Projects

Splicing to NASA Standards

A friend of mine that works at NASA recently stumbled across an old standards manual for wire junctions. Essentially, these were the standards that NASA labs used from Gemini on up through the Shuttle era. And I thought some of you might find it as fascinating as I did. You can download the manual here. However, if you aren’t a space nerd and don’t have the patience for the level of decoding required in the manual, there is an easy way out. Make magazine must have found the same document and actually did a video on soldering the NASA way. …
Reviews & Features

The Atomic Keyboard

Covid project… I actually started this thing a few months ago, lost interest, and then picked it up again under quarantine. My main goal was actually to test a few bits sent to me by toolstoday.com. Specifically, I used: 1/4″ Amana Spektra coated down cut. 1/8″ Amana Spektra coated down cut. I’m not getting paid to say this… and neither Toolstoday.com or Amana are sponsors, but holy hell these have changed the way I used my CNC. They seem to be less temperamental to speeds and feeds which is great for my flex prone machine… and they seemingly last forever. …
Projects

A Casual Atomic Lab Tour

Over on The Jalopy Journal, fellas have been posting shop tours to show off their hot rods and what not while being quarantined. I figured I would follow suit and made a quick and dirty video this morning. Excuse the mess… I have all sorts of projects going on at the moment. Rather than cleaning it all up to make it more presentable, I kept it casual so that folks can see what’s actually like here day-to-day. Messy and scatter-brained. See Comments on the forum.
Projects

The Desk Setup: Part 1

After building the BF/MFT, I wanted a quick project to test it for feasibility and usability. The desk in my studio was showing it’s age, so I figured it to be the perfect test project. This video is part one of a two part series and frankly, it’s not all that well done. I made and edited this video while I was building the actual desk setup. And since the desk is where I typically edit these things, I had to make part one on my laptop and without a decedent monitor, voice over mic, etc… Even so, I figured …