1. Project ideas

    • Shadow boxes and frames
    • cocktail robots, natch
    • shelf dividers/organizers for tool boxes
    • shop boxes, like Tom Yoder's, but more like the double yellow boxes.
    • Photo outline popups, ala Papa Don's and Robbie's. Glue photo to board, cut out outline of person and put on a stand.
    • projects/finn_dragon/Dragon-149393 …
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  2. Laser Power

    How do I power this beast?

    Sunday July 14, 2024

    The laser, chiller, and air compresser or 220 but use standard 110 sockets

    Laser 220 1.5kw, ~7 amps Chiller 220 Air Compresser 220


    I think that the laser, the chiller, and the air compressor each use NEMA 6-20p 20 …

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  3. Tasks

    Thu 11 July 2024: Laser

    done - Figure out power done - focus/tune? done - Start up checklist done - Maintenance Schedule done - Other resources...

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  4. Initial Laser Journey

    alt text <img src="/images/first_image.jpg" "First view of the laser!" width="300")

    It's footprint is 54" x 67"

    On June 23rd there was a facebook post. An 80 watt 4' x 3' laser cutter. I jumped on that!

    It is probably 'only' 1200 mm x 900 mm, which pedanticism only …

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  5. LLM notes

    llm.md - playing with the llm module.

    To paste in token command-V doesn't work, need to right click and select paste. huggingface-cli login mkdir Mistral-7B-OpenOrca-GPTQ huggingface-cli download TheBloke/Mistral-7B-OpenOrca-GPTQ --local-dir Mistral-7B-OpenOrca-GPTQ --local-dir-use-symlinks False

    Getting …

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  6. Neovim

    gf opens file in new window :e# goes back

    ^W f opens file in split window. yayish. - should follow a file, doesn't work for me, does bring up a screen :h gf

    • custom browsing with a special handler :h gx

    I blame Robert Kaye :-)

    :checkhealth

    :help nvim-from-vim

    .config/nvim

    • I …
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  7. Clear Lake level, with pandas

    I live on Clear Lake, and watching the level rise and fall is one of my minor obsessions.

    Clear Lake has a special way of measuring the height of the Lake. It uses the 'Rumsey Scale.' There are some nuances, but pretty much a guy named Rumsey put a stick …

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