FLA Labs is a creative place to explore 3D Printing, Micro Controllers, PCB design, and much more! I like to keep myself busy with projects and share the results here. If you have cool project ideas, share them with me and maybe I will make a video about them!
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Software: I use Fusion360 for CAD modeling, Da Vinci Resolve for video editing, Creality, and Chitubox for 3D print slicing, and Ki CAD for circuit design/PCB layout.
Materials: I use Arduino and Adafruit for most of my electronics, DigiKey for components, Matter Hackers (and others) for Filament and Resins, and JLC PCB for PCB prototype manufacturing.
Stupid question. I've thought of going the same route where you cut out the path to lay the LED strip in, but my main concern was the length of the LED Stip cutt-off point if that makes sense? If the path is shorter than the strip or longer, what would you do then?
No such thing as a stupid question! That is actually one of the challenges with these projects... you could probably do the math and make sure each letter has a "length" that works perfectly with your LED strip, but I find it best to just get LED strip with more frequent cut points (every 1/3" in this case) and get as close as you can. When it's turned off, you may notice little gaps at the start and stop of the channel where the LED strip is a little short, but when it's on, you can't even tell! I hope that helps!
When I designed it, tree supports were not a thing. I haven't tried it that way yet. It was designed with normal supports In mind and prints well with them!
@@FLALabs I showed that same ball you are talking about to a flatearther. guess what? it was photoshop, they know better! so i guess it is a checkmate for all of us. but i wait a minute..... isn't all flat earth models are computer generated?
As a free-flying balloon, I do not have the ability to maneuver, so I have the right-of-way and it is the responsibility of aircraft pilots to avoid collisions. I am only required to file a notice to airmen with the FAA before each launch.
I have an idea: Why don’t we develop solid-fuel rocket with range of 100 kilometers and put the satellite in orbit for a short period? Is this idea possible or am crazy? hope for response. Thank you. appreciate your effort.😂❤
These have become my preferred threaded insert. Id recommend you do a few test prints and select a hole diameter that results in the best results with the threaded insert. I Luke to make it so the small part will fit into the hole and then you can press it the rest of the eay with heat. Hopefully this helps!
Awesome! I'm pretty sure I took that picture at the end. I so glad you gave me that card. It was great chatting with you. That drive back to MI was not 😵💫
Great question! This one traveled 88 miles which is pretty typical. We have tools that we use to calculate the approximate landing location based on factors like wind, payload, and lifting gas!
Why it didn't enter the orbit and went right back down? What if you lift it up that much and shot some type of firework? Maybe it would stay there and function as it supposed to? 😊
With all due respect, I believe you may have inadvertently designed a firebomb. Be careful with that ready mix concrete. That stuff is not meant to survive high temperatures. Your mix is quite wet, but I'm far more concerned with the concrete material itself. There's a reason you shouldn't build a fire directly atop a concrete slab. Instead, you burn in a fireplace or fire pit built atop a concrete slab. Regular concrete is not fireproof. It can spall, crack, or even explode under prolonged direct exposure to heat. Consider the thermal gradients involved here. Differential heating causes restrained thermal expansion. The hot inner layers of the fireplace want to expand, while the cool outer layers resist this expansion. Concrete has very little tensile capacity. With steep enough temperature gradients, these restraining stresses can grow very large. And if conditions are right, a fireplace like this can be completely destroyed by these stresses, potentially even explosively so. You need to look into the special mixes that go into fire bricks. If you're sitting at your desk, and you have a fire burning in one of these things, you have what has the potential to be a very literal firebomb just inches away from you. This, as designed, is a potential firebomb. And just because you've tested it once doesn't mean it is OK. Maybe this one will be fine, but other copies won't. Fatigue and stress cycling can also magnify this effect, meaning that the fireplace might be fine for the first hundred firing, then go off like a bomb on the 101st. Or someone might fill theirs up a bit higher, with a bit more fuel, than you did. Or they may buy a fuel mix with a slightly different chemistry. And on and on. I hate to state the obvious, but you're literally playing with fire here. Any device that you can buy that features an open flame has a hell of a lot of engineering that goes into it. And the first requirement for anything that needs to take the heat is that it must be built of heat-tolerant materials. And regular concrete is absolutely not a heat-tolerant material. A concrete house does better than a stick-built wooden house in a fire, but both need to be torn down after.
Thanks for your concern! I have done a lot of testing and I am comfortable with the results for my own use. I will add a disclaimer for others who decide to do the project for themselves!
