The Elegoo Mars turned out to be one of my favourite printers (Elegoo Mars Review), but resin 3d printing still has some downsides, and the biggest is the resin itself. It's stinky, nasty stuff, that you

It worked! Using Lack tables from Ikea I can have my Prusa Mk3s conveniently located on my 3d printer table instead of on the floor. While it has to take the bottom bunk, at least it doesn't get kicked

Looking forward to trying this bad boy out :) beamo from Flux is a $799 30w CO2 laser, live on Kickstarter right now (It's already blasted right through the target pledge goal!)

My Prusa Mk3s is all set up and humming along nicely, my airbrush station is moved into a temporary home, the next step was to stack my 3d printers bunk-bed style. I had this amazing master plan while

Original Prusa i3 Mk3s 3D Printer Kit review Prusa Mk3s reviews are often by popular YouTubers who get 3D printers for free, sometimes sent by Josef Prusa himself. Not so here, I am not popular, and I

Welcome to part two of my Q2 2019 maintenance and preventative as well as repairs update on my '99 320i. Idle Switch Some of you may have read my 2019 Audi A5 Sportback Review here: The reason for getting

This is my 1999 BMW 320i E46, built in March of that year in Bavaria. Above you see it a few days ago in front of the shop I always work at. Amazingly the summer tires on the signature 68M 5 spoke wheels

When 3D printers work they amaze. But even the most reliable machines (in this case, prusa mk2) can fail. ... and usually on hour 7 of an 8 hour print.

Today we'll replace a faulty rear window regulator on my E46 BMW. Operation is specific to the rear, will do front in a separate blog as it is quite more complicated in front. This works on any late 90s

After a long break due to some RL obligations I'm back at it, today with the following updates: Starting here I separated the door and aligned the geometry to the main body: Added the door handle and side

This was my 2005 E350, good old, complex and pretty damn solid luxury barge straight from Stuttgart. I been driving the livin' daylights out of it and also using its practical aspects quite a bit... That's

Welcome back to my W530 restoration, upgrade and preventative maintenance journey. This notebook is a workstation model built in 2012 as a 2013 model with a pretty highend CPU even by today's standards

Back at it with my newly acquired 6 year old Lenovo W530 workstation. I recently learned to decipher the Lenovo nomenclature as in the second number indicates the year it was released. The T400 would be

Lenovo T-, X- and W- Thinkpads and Windows 10 Thinkpads always had quite cool apps to control power management, peripherals and comms mainly through the apps: Hotkey Integration Power Manager Access Comms

I've been a long (looong) time Thinkpad fan of mostly modern era Thinkpads. Originally started with a T500, moved on to a T420s i7 which I heavily used and abused, got a T430s i5 and converted that to

Before providing a more general update on what's been happening on my faithful compagnion on the road to 400.000km I wanted to provide a tutorial for anyone wishing to replace or upgrade their steering

The following is the newest installment of my decade old practice of taking lots of special pictures of special cars when I see them out in the wild. This immaculate and seemingly brand new 911 GT2 RS

Small update of what's to come: model has been submitted to Radium a while back and is in his dev cue, potential ETA H2 2019 while I'm sorting out my artwork for the old model's textures I've been converting

Most people go from traditional tools to CNC but, other than a short time at high school, most of my making started out digital, and now I’m working towards the traditional. At this rate in a few years

One of the great things about having digital fabrication tools at home is that when you need something specific and quickly you can just go ahead and make it. While I also have 3D printers and CNC machines,