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Proprietor https://tirefireind.us. Mostly reformed shitposter. Cat dad of two. If you were looking for someone it was the other guy.
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"I will support [the president] invading my constituency if my opponent wins"

sulla dot jpeg
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Behold, part of the #Python bullshit I've been working on for the last several months!

I've been slowly working up an implementation of `uv install` under #Bazel... using only Bazel. This is important because it lets Python apps built with Bazel do crossbuilds (eg build on your mac to prod Linux).
November 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Starting to think they may be codependent
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
After some shopping, this seems like the initial parts list. Could punt on the stock even.
November 3, 2025 at 6:29 AM
I think they missed me
November 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
So long as
October 31, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Gonna be honest dawg I spent six months building this thing and it’s better at wood than I’ll ever be. It’s nice to drink beer and wait for the machine to do its thing. Just moves the creativity doesn’t remove it.
October 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I’m gonna get so much mileage out of this one. Also need a krompotkin that’s just laser eyes bread
October 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Beaft
October 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
me @ computers today
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I live for this shit.
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Which brings me, a little over a year later and mere days before the 1st anniversary, to a finished product.
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Adding juice grooves to cutting boards is something woodworkers hate doing because it’s high potential for damaging the board. James thought I was nuts to trust the machine. In his defense it did take a couple tries, but we did ultimately succeed in carving the board as desired.
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
That board has since made huge progress that’s long been blocked on flattening through sanding, rounding and oiling.
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
That success in hand and about six months after we started in on building the lowrider, we finally milled the slab that started all this. To a near flawless flat on the first try.
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This weekend we had the first big successes with the machine — using it to work on something other than itself. Specifically, flattening cutting boards. The thing that got us into this in the first place. This is one of James’ we used for testing.
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
That first milestone complete we were able to use the machine to flatten its own tabletop to plane (which is the second thing you’re supposed to use it for) and @tsothoga.bsky.social worked up some refinements to the tabletop adding work holding track and more expendable spoil boards.
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The lowrider machine passed its first big function test a few weeks back when it succeeded in the first thing you’re supposed to use it for - carving out the stiffening boards for the lowrider’s core frame
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The electromechanical parts mostly complete it was @tsothoga.bsky.social’s turn and we banged first a table and then a significantly improved table to mount the robot on.
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Assembly and some initial test cuts took a while, but the v1e docs were super easy to follow and the robot itself mostly shook and baked.
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This is however the entire frame you’d need to build some sort of XY movement machine. And then you still have to actuate it manually. So I talked @tsothoga.bsky.social into agreeing to let me put a robot table in his shop, ordered the parts kit and fired up the 3d printers.
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I’d just finished scratch building a small fleet of 3d printers and @directxman12.dev had mentioned the @v1engineering.bsky.social Lowrider CNC machine. And I’d gotten to see one in person at RMRF where I was impressed with the sheer simplicity of the design.
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The fix itself was straightforward enough although frustrating. Carve out the damaged wood and glue some new wood in. But clearly the flattening solution we had wasn’t nearly adequate to the task at hand.
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Unfortunately the aforementioned sled sucked, and not only did the board come out textured from router bite and vibration rather than flat, the router took a bite out of the board. I wasn’t enthused.
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM