I have started the Gingery shaper project. I am following the instructions in the The Metal Shaper book; however, I will be adapting it to metric dimensions and with metric hardware–at least for the most part. I also know of at least a couple other departures from the design in the book that I am…
In this log, I will discuss what I accomplished this week. I spent the majority of my time this week modeling the shaper. I also built an overhead hoist to help with molding particularly for the column side and other large molds. I edited and released a status update video. Finally, I cast the second of the…
Would you like to be able to melt aluminum anywhere? Well, I certainly do. I wanted to melt aluminum to demonstrate metal casting at Maker Faire Atlanta but did not have a feasible foundry in which to do so. My kiln would be too slow for regular demonstrations. My old kerosene foundry was languishing in…
In my original garage light controller post, had prepared a script to automatically launch the beagle bone black (BBB) web server. When I implemented the kiln controller, I also upgraded the garage light controller to interface with openHab. The new code for the BBB is in a zip file below. To run them, I just…
Ever since my wife snagged a $10 kiln from a thrift store my aluminum has been much hotter than desirable when comes the time to pour. This is because with my kerosene fueled foundry, I had to constantly babysit it. There was no super heating of the aluminum because I was right there watching it….
I am building a Gingery Metal Lathe, I keep adding to the playlist below. Subscribe to my channel on YouTube and configure alerts for my channel if you want to receive notificantion when I add videos. I downloaded the first three books in the series for Kindle. Morgan Demers inspired me with his videos of…
This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. If you click the link and make a purchase I receive a small commission to keep Makercise up and running. View my privacy policy here. For the longest time, I have wanted to control my garage lights with something other than light switches. Why? I don’t have a switch…
Do you know how 3-way 4-way multiway switching works? Check out this post and video to see it broken down with animation and a free printable. Multiway switching is used when you want to be able to turn on or off a load such as a light from multiple locations. For instance in my garage,…
Dueling Fire Pits I want to show you how I built my Dueling Fire Pits. In my video, I discuss the construction of a new fire pit in addition to the repair of my old fire pit. The original fire pit has been awesome. I burned three pine trees 18” in diameter. A tree fell…
Makercise Murphy Bed Take a look at the YouTube video documenting the process. I built this hanging murphy bed with a dry erase board on the back for about $85. It took me a Sunday afternoon and several evenings during the week. I have used this four times since I built it a month ago….