David Wheeler

@daveofthings.bsky.social

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DaveOfThings on most platforms. Professional embedded software engineer. I enjoy photography, electronics and making things with digital fabrication' 3D printers, CNC machines, etc.

I'm standing on a stump, about a meter wide, at ground level.
A mars-rover looking base drives off the sidewalk into the grass.
Bird on a bath with pale yellow belly, light grey chest and a darker grey crest that is floofed a bit.
Wide view of lake water and sky. A tree with flowers in bloom leans out horizontally from the shore.
Selfie in a sweatshirt peppered with snow. (matches my hair)
Tuxedo patterned cat, laying on its back.
Closeup of a wood workpiece with half a spiral bit laying in one of the pockets.
A small router with the motor brushes removed. Old brushes are worn to less than half the length of a new set, also pictured.
A rough slab of oak, about 7 feet long with varying width.
Rows of white grave markers. In the distance, parked cars line the road.
Our tree in the house. It's so wide it obscures the fireplace in the middle of the wall. The top is an inch from touching the ceiling.
Completed plywood frames for an FRC robot.
Aluminum sheet on a router table. There's a cut line that ends with the bit laying in its own groove. The router kept going without the cutter until I stopped it.
My digital watch, in working order, on my wrist.
Four test pieces in aluminum and polycarbonate with various rectangle and circle cutouts.
My digital watch on my wrist but the display is blank. The battery has died.
Clouds at night. The view north from my house shows no sign of an Aurora tonight.
The director of owl moon raptor center holds a tiny owl.
A black cat is wearing a black bat costume. A hand is in frame holding the cats face up for the camera. Clearly he is annoyed.
A Dummy 13 stands with his female counterpart, PAM, and the Dummy 13 Dragon.
A poseable 3d printed dragon.
Gabe at 3D Printopia with a table of Dummy 13 prints.
A 3d print with lots of stringing between various small pieces.
A crystal cube in a black chamber is revealed by spots of green light. A single green laser beam passes from top to bottom of the cube. A sculpture is taking shape where the beam lands.
A cardboard box labeled "cube name tags". The top one says David Wheeler.
A CNC machine bed with a piece of aluminum tube. There's a hole in the tube with a ragged edge, where the workpiece slipped. And there's the tip of the broken bit laying next to it.
A weird shaped knife blade is half way through being cut on a CNC machine. It's made from black Corian material, like a kitchen counter top.
Me with a huge bag of inflated beach balls and a stack of uninflated ones in my hand.
A bright rainbow arc intersects a set of transformers on a power pole.
A selfie of me back home on the deck.
A wide hole about a foot deep by my sidewalk. It's very muddy and all the dirt is piled behind it. The removed roots sit further back in the yard.
On the bed of a CNC machine, A maple board is on top of the alignment jig with pins connecting and aligning the two.
Viewed from the water, a raccoon is wading along the edge of a lake. Green bushes cover the bank.
A sign: Black Hill water trail 3, viewed from the water.
A board screwed down to a CNC machine with a rectangular pattern of holes.
A juvenile snake emerging from a ball of dry grass and feathers?
A row of painted rocks. First one looks like a snake head, the others spell "Paint a rock grow a snake"
The E3D crew with, Joel Telling, David Tobin, and Iron Man.
Me and Pez Liz at the end of the show.
A 3d printed pen holder.
Colorful 3d printed ice cream cones.
An array of 3d printed headphones.
A jumbled box of Maker chips. There's probably over a thousand!
Austin, aka Zombie Hedgehog, setting up his table.
Our refrigerator with a Princess Bride magnet. Also, "My housekeeping style is best described as there appears to have been a struggle" and Samuel Jackson saying "Get in motherfuckers, we're going motherfuckering."
A medieval wood block design cut in vinyl. The image is mostly black with a few white areas where the waste vinyl was removed.
T-shirt for FRC team 6863 featuring their squirrel mascot.
A man holds a hot wing while high school students film him eating it.
Two boards with tabs and slots but the slots don't line up with tabs.
5 students from different FRC teams discuss strategy. Two appear to be wearing orange spacesuits.
A 1 inch hole in an aluminum plate. But rather than a smooth circular edge, there are facets. This is more of a polygon than circle.
A shot of whiskey.
Apollo 1 memorial stone.
Me with my Dad's grave marker at Arlington National Cemetery.
A workpiece on a CNC machine. The router has cut a 4 inch circle around a metal screw.
A 3D print that has utterly failed near the end. The top surfaces are extremely rough, the hot end nozzle has broken off and lies on the bed and a couple loops of unprocessed filament wrap around everything.