Much of the feedback I received on my introductory post revolved around how I didn’t really introduce or explain anything. This was intentional, and for good reason. You see, trying to plan out 5 weeks of cohesive blog posts seemed hard. So I didn’t do it. Besides, if I had explained the idea behind how all my posts fit together up front, then what would this conclusion be? A past tense reiteration of the introduction? Meh to that.
Furthermore, some of the projects used in the blog are still in somewhat active development. Any progress on something could change its importance and position in the overall blog. For example, half my post on 3D design was tentatively going to be about the planned v3 of my arc reactor. It’s going to be 3D printed with channels and grooves for pressing wire and other components into, creating a solder-free pseudo circuit board. You know, if it works. Either way it seemed like a cool potential post, but as predicted, I made no progress on it this quarter. So I’m sure glad I didn’t promise to write about it.
Anyway, now that I’ve justified all that, I’ll explain the loose vision behind my blog that ties it all together. Not counting the introduction, the first post is about the rather large wooden boombox I built in high school, along with some of my complaints on how it could have been better. The main issues are that I didn’t have sufficient manufacturing ability or electronics knowledge to build what I wanted. The next few posts are stories about smaller projects where I learn about 3D printing and solder blinky lights to coffee cans. Post 5, about the MLP BoomBox, serves as the current culmination of my progress since the high school boombox. Alternatively, you could just call it a bunch of stuff that I’ve done and group it together that way.
Although I wasn’t always sure what style I was going for, and it varied wildly between informative and jokes-only, I had fun writing it. Hopefully it wasn’t too bad to read.
That’s pretty much it. Our entire organization thanks you for your patronage. The end is NOW!
Coming next week: nada! But you can check me out Thingiverse to see more dumb stuff I’ve made. New designs posted occasionally!
ps- It feels weird to make a post without pictures of colorful doodads and whatnot, so here’s one of my current 3d print station!