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Converting Word documents to LaTeX
Wwhy bother converting in the first place? In my case it’s because I’ve a large document thatneeds revisions; and I don’t want to have to fight with Word again to get it ready for printing. Using LaTeX sepatates the content from the format, so I can concentrate on words, and...
Glued Laminate Front Axle Cross-Beam
I’ve written before about how bending aluminium tube is expensive, and alternative manufacturing practices such as glued, laminated wooden beams and using several materials to create a lower mass beam. Well, it hasn’t all been fluff, and here’s the layered replacement for the front axle cross tube. [gallery link=”file” columns=”2”]...
Removing "Facebook like" and "Google +1" from your browsing
There are any number of reasons why you might want to remove Facebook like and Google +1 buttons from websites you view, but if you don’t use these services, or don’t like to publish link repeats in your social media stream; then, at best, they serve as visual clutter while...
No-Bend, Self-Jig Rear Hanger
While I was not happy with the bending requirements in the initial M0.1 design of Atomic Duck, I was willing to use part design that required a press brake for manufacture and refine them later. That is until I found that the cost of bending is prohibitively high in small...
add-rel-lightbox version 0.2
New for version 0.2, the plugin will now also add the lightbox attribute and caption to image linked galleries using the [gallery link=”file”] shortcode. add-rel-lightbox is a WordPress plugin that will automatically add a rel=”lightbox” attribute and the image appropriate description from the media library to link-wrapped images placed in...
Composite Materials for Bending
This article has vector images embedded, these are handled fine by most modern browsers, but if you can’t see the images, just click them to view _backwards compatible versions This is a bit of a technical post, but it’s information that might be useful to you later, so feel free...
Open Source Hardware
What I’ve been calling “Open Source Engineering” is more widely known as open source hardware, and associated to open hardware. Often, open source hardware is taken to mean electronics, but this is just because a large number of projects are electronic. Open source hardware refers to any product with a...
Glued, laminated structural components
While looking for alternatives to industrial forming of aluminium, I hit on the idea of using laminated wood for components. This is actually quite a sensible idea, wood can be formed into curves as it’s laid-up and will stay in that shape afterwards, and it has good tensile strength along...
Joining pdf files
When I generate pdf files of part designs for printing, each drawing is a single file, each only a single page. This is great for viewing/sharing/printing a single part, but when I’m printing packs of technical drawings, printing several copies each of 50 (ish) pdf files and then collating those...
The forces of folding
or: “Why folding 3mm Aluminium is out-of-reach of most home builders” There are two main tools for bending sheet metal, a bending brake or a press brake. In an industrial manufacturing environment, the press brake is most commonly used, as it is the more adaptable and, with the computer control,...
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