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hey i'm just working on a grid beam project. I wish youtube let you post pictures. Has anyone use gridbeam to design a 3 drill drill-press in order to speed up the drilling ??

With such a small jig you risk accumulating any small error in the distance between holes until it becomes noticeable over the length of a long beam.

Nice job there.

DUDE THIS WAS MADE THE DAY I WAS BORN :O

genius...thanks

Wish I had a makerspace a little further north. Not sure how well it would do.

juan -if there are he won

In addition to the wood block stopper on the back of the drill platform, just make a think (1/2" or so) strip which lies in front of the stopper. Drill a hole in this strip, insert a short bit of dowel, perhaps 1". Then, once you've drilled you first hole, you place that hole over the little bit of dowel sticking up from the strip, and drill again. Lather, rinse, repeat. This would ensure the exact same spacing for every single hole.

What is this not understand i beam cutting cutting not good

What are you using for the dies at the bottom and made out of what?

Its hard to tell exactly how your bottom plate is constructed but if i were to guess, it looks like a aluminum under plastic wrap or aluminised mylar. Once charged, it acts like a quasi permanent charged, real-charge, electrete. Would you elaborate on how your bottom plate is constructed?

are they competing on who can cut the worse?

Well, where should we start....? Tanks too close, respirator, didn’t check to see if he had a neutral flame and he moved a little slow (which he noticed himself). Still, I would never burn with the bottles less than 20 feet or preferably 35 feet away from me.

Dude sucks

You two looks great together.

Wtf

Hey, did you ever figure out to make grid beam easily? I just stumbled upon it and would like to make my own. Thanks for the videos! :)

So when you say you ripped a 2x4 into 2x2s, do you mean that you ripped 2x4s into beams that are actually 2in^2, or just the nomial (?) 2x2 length (which would be slightly less)? I tried to make some but I didn't get the holes even (I need to create a template), and I think the beams themselves weren't quite squared (I bought 2x2s from lowes).

Some kind of skipping issue is going on, the video stays in the same frame, but the sound continues. Thanks though, very informative!!!!

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lol, I just sat there and started eating the plate of mushrooms, I forgot about that! haha

Is there a walkthrough video of the current version of the Dallas Makerspace in the larger building? This brought back memories from when I first joined the makerspace. Yall have grown so much since then! :)

This is almost exactly what I did a few years back, although I (1) mounted the saw under a drop-in panel so I could more easily swap the saw with a blank panel when I needed a worktable without a saw in the middle, and (2) used an entire wooden door as the table top, to make it easier to rip long pieces of lumber into 1.5"x1.5" without the ends falling off. This is the kind of "seed idea" that seems to encourage personal variations according to need.

What do you make dies/discs from? What size tubes of pvc

Hey Andrew, thanks for the videos about the maker space facility. I was looking at it as a location with tools and assets to work on a robotics project, do you think maker space would be a suitable location for such?

Great jig idea. :-) .. Suggestion: You may want take of the backstop and file/cut a small 45 deg. angle relief on the bottom corner that faces the drill. This will help things square. You could also take a 1 inch hole saw and drill through the bottom where you drill press drill bit goes through the wood. This will allow the sawdust to fall through the bottom instead of building up on your jig :-).

instead of marking all the holes would it be easyer to drill the first hole and then put this hole on a pin and drill the next hole and thenput it on the next hole and on and on and on

the audio is a bit out of sync

Nice old Emco PC Mill...good machine for doing prototyping work or micromachining..

Thanks for the tour Andrew.

Nice job! Where can I get the plans ???

Nice work!!!

Miss you guys, really have expanded. I have a show at Ro2 right now showing some CNC foam and fiberglass pieces

Ah! That green heart thing!! I MADE THAT! (almost makes me feel like a real maker!)

Here are a few DMS videos from the early days Dallas Makerspace 2010 Open House time lapse Dallas Makerspace 2010 Open House Dallas Makerspace 2010 Open House walk through Dallas Makerspace Open House 2010 DMS first darkroom First photo from the Dallas Makerspace Darkroom

This is a "must see" video for anyone wondering what all goes on at The Dallas Makerspace (...and, fun for ***** members to watch, too!) Thanks so much Andrew Floyd! This gives a Very Real "Insiders' View" of The 'Space! Fun lil vid to watch! :) :)

Hey! Glad to hear the DMS is still going out there. I think they were working on a CNC machine a while back, that'd actually be the absolute best way to go about doing it I think. The pieces I've made are really versatile and have served me well. But I don't think I want to continue working with grid beam as it is. I've actually discovered a new thing that was invented by the grandaddy of grid beam Ken Isaacs. The panel matrix! Check out "How to Build Living Structures" free PDFs online.

I am trying to build some shelving using gridbeams. I was recently introduced to the DMS and plan to become a member if/when I get a car. I got a drill press yesterday and am going to try my hand at making some sticks. Thanks for your help.

it is well understood how this works. the negative charge on the bottom plate separates charge on the top plate (positive on the bottom negative on the top) your finger then earths the negative charge on the top leaving a positively charged plate... zap

i just tried to do the same thing with a cardboard disk wrapped in aluminum foil and it didn't work. Maybe because my disk was too small, or maybe because I didn't smooth out all the surfaces well enough, OR maybe because both the electrophorus and the base were made out of aluminum..

thank you! I'll try your experiment too. Understanding the most basic physical phenomena like this one is crucial!

You know, I'm not sure what the pie pan is made out of. It hadn't even occurred to me. But since it seems to be the dielectric being charged and not the metals it might actually make a difference. That's a completely new line of thinking for me! Thank you! As far as getting a spark off the bottom plate, I'll have to test that and get back to you. Since I made this video the hot glue I was using to attatch the PVC handle to the pie pan came loose. I'd like to figure out a way to solder it...

is it possible that charge separation occurs because you use different materials? I mean the pie pan is not made out of aluminum... or is it? and another question is.. if you ground the bottom layer (the aluminum foil) after the separation will you see a discharge too? thanks!

Yes, that's right. We had to keep her from the artificial queen cells we were implanting in the top deep. without the excluder she would have chewed them all down, and sometimes still did despite our best efforts to keep her out of there.

so u exclude the queen in the bottom chamber and give queen cells in to the top chamber or deep shall I say, is this correct? TNX

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@enticed2zeitgeist Thanks. Grid beam still makes an appearance though! Notice the computer desk, and the table the electrophorus is sitting on was built out of spare sticks I had lying around my room.

Cool vid man! I've been taking a break from grid beam as well. Happy holiday buddy!

@jdwheeler42 I will consider that, especially now that I have a router. However, right now the idea I have floating around in my head is to use a jig I discovered in a book on making mongolian tents. Instead of using a bolt and a hole, I would have a bolt coming -up- precisely where it belongs. This means I'd have to pick up the piece between every hole, but it might be more exact, and the sawdust could just fall off the side. I'll try to keep it up to date. Thanks though. :)

If it is the sawdust clogging things up, how about drilling some holes and/or routing some channels for the sawdust to move through?