Alan

@alpritt.bsky.social

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A programmer, trying to find time to MAKE away from the screen as well. UK based.

A mortice cut in progress. Not perfect yet, but there is a nice clean slice.
View of tenon poking out of a through hole mortise.
Mortice and tenon. Very rough. There is an extra empty mortice next to it which was another another practice.
A stack of handmade notebooks. Different colours. The top one is blue.
Mint leafs with white and black spots.
Two pieces of wood/plywood. 3 blobs of wood filler are all stuck to the same piece. The tape without Vaseline stuck to the filler but even that is easy to peel off.
Calipers set to the width of today's wood planing effort shown next to yesterday's wood planing effort. There is a gap of roughly 3mm showing how much less I had to plane off today.
The base of a toy digger. Circuit board has been pulled out. There's a flywheel mechanism in there as well.
A huge book called Animal Anatomy for Artists. It's full of great reference illustrations for drawing animals. The book is shown slightly open with the cover crashing up against my monitor riser shelf. It overhangs the desk at the front.
Poirot, Maybelle and her pet duck Oliver riding a taxi together in Paris.
A bit of metal wire twisted into the holes of a sink drain strainer. It's meant to be a handle, but is badly bent. It solves the problem though.
Woodwork vice bolted to the end of a workbench.
25mm Forstner bit, a long M10 drill bit and some holes. There is a new carriage bolt now recessed in the bench.
Eclipse woodwork vice. I think it, or a version similar, is what everyone seems to get if buying something new.
Glocusent clip on light attached to a (too thin and ugly) monitor riser shelf.
3 blocks of wood forming a monitor shelf which sits on top of the desk. The shelf is unnecessarily thick and is resting on two blocks of wood forming the legs.
View of desk. The monitor is standing on a couple of pieces of wood. There's also a split keyboard and mouse which are also key for ergonomics. Also visible: Mac Mini (not my main machine), Audio interface, Amplifier, a timer clock, glasses, pens, a speaker, and a raspberry pi connected to a small touchscreen.
Two nylon cord braided bracelets.
A map of Britain with the 500 mile route marked out at the top of Scotland.
Nylon cord kumihimo braided bracelet.
Shinwa (シンワ) steel square 7.5 X 15cm.
Print of room plan from CAD drawing with cut out red card representing furniture.
Two tape measures lengths of 5 meters and 8 meters. It has a compliments slip thanking me for the order from gosforthhandyman.com
Yellow nylon cord labelled 'off white'
Empty green powder sachet next to a glass of the remaining dark green beverage.
A fledgling blue tit sitting on the branch of a laurel bush
A gap next to a wardrobe created to put a desk up against a corner. In the foreground is the back of a computer monitor and laptop. There are a few boxes on the floor. These are full of electronics parts.
Fold up Bluetooth keyboard to connect phone to and a small bag (the size is 6 litres or 24.5 x 8.5 x 29 cm).
This is the blocked screen you see with screen time set for an individual site. I set the timer to 0 minutes. I still watch YouTube on my laptop where I use an extension to block recommended videos. This way, when I watch YouTube, I have to search for something and I'm more in control of my thoughts.
A photo of the phone with the Linux console open.
A sock. Blue and black stripes but darned with contrasting red thread.
3d print for thread gauge organisers. Test pieces in the background. I hadn't cut the brim off the imperial one yet. I still have trouble with the prints sticking to the print bed without a brim to help hold it down.
Describe the 3d model in Python code
The first button charges the capacitor while pressed. But it gradually discharges when the button is released. So the LED fades on and fades off. And the second button is quickly discharging the capacitor, so the LED turns off instantly.
3 slices of bread and a sponge that very much looks like another slice of bread.
One intact relay and one broken in lots of bits. Getting to the magnetic coil that attracts the switch was not possible without breaking it.
Back of Raspberry Pi 5 attached to the back of 7" Touch Screen version 2 with active cooler installed. The case I used to house it in is in the foreground. That case had a fan built in, but the case doesn't fit when the computer is attached to the back of the screen.
A simple circuit powering an LED bulb. The battery is made with 3 lemon cells. Consisting of 3 half lemons with a zinc anode and a copper coin acting as the cathode electrode.
'Make: Electronics' by Charles Platt
Simple little notebook on a cutting mat. Thread binded with a red cover.
A breadboard circuit with a blinking LED.
Breadboard with Elegoo Arduino clone microcontroller. 2 buttons switch the light on or off.
Screenshot of my score from ear training intervals.
The surreal book cover
A screenshot showing a snippet of my Algebra 1 course progress on Khan academy.
A long roll of plane shaving from a piece of lumber
The book cover featuring a chair by John Makepeace
Pen inside a little 3d print hole center finder. Basically a cylinder with the pen inside and the outer part the diameter of the hole.
Steel flat edge resting on the top of a planed piece of cheap lumber.
3×15cm steel rulers
One half of the ZSA Voyager keyboard attached with a 3d printed magnetic mount which connects to a ball joint camera mount and then screwed into a steel 1-2-3 block to give a base.
Soldering iron and 3d printed part with a threaded insert embedded in it.
3d print in progress
This shows my first FreeCAD design for a keyboard mount. The screenshot is from within Prusa Slicer which is used to prepare the model for 3D printing.
FreeCAD model of a keyboard mount (not yet complete). It has 4 holes for magnets to be inserted and 4 guide pins to position it correctly on the keyboard base.
Hoodie sleeve, with hole in seam
Selfie wearing the fixed jumper
Needles, yarn and a jumper with a hole.
A block of 3d printed plastic. It has a hole in it ready to accept a threaded inset (tripod size).
Home made shooting board jig (made from plywood) for planing right angles in wood.