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jamie peacock: Welcome to the Loan Machinist, where it's just you, the work, and the machine, and apparently Carl as well, because I was given shit because I'm not a Loan Machinist. But anyway, how what have you got going on this fine day, Kurt?
Curt: My wife was actually mentioning that. She's like, are you changing the name? i was like, no, we'll just tell, just just I'll just take over.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It'll be just me. We'll have to interview Jamie or something.
jamie peacock: Carl's a subcontractor, I don't know what you speak of.
Curt: I haven't seen him, so he doesn't exist yet.
jamie peacock: There we go.
Curt: um This week, I'm going to talk about ah the book. ah tuning quads and machining pens and ah how you should have backups for everything. How about you? what are you going to talk about this week?
jamie peacock: ah The fact that I can't count um the fact that I drive with a trailer around this week to do dumb shit and about the little website that I built for auditing your tool library. How are you?
jamie peacock: Yeah, how are you this fine day good?
Curt: I'm doing good. I'm doing fantastic. Spent all day working out in the sun, so I'm absolutely wiped. and excuse me And it's late here, and then I'm to dog for a walk.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So yeah, I'm going to be a tired little boy tonight, but I'll sleep well, so that's always good.
jamie peacock: nice yeah well that's good yeah carrying on yesterday was uh busy all day and then uh today we're going to walk the dogs and then we're gonna have a bra this afternoon it should be quite fun uh yeah this might be a bit of a short episode because i need to go walk my dogs with my wife um but yeah we will we'll see it's gonna be a fun sunday i don't plan on really doing any physical work i wanted to run anodizing but i didn't get to machine my parts which we'll get to
Curt: ah you how's How's your morning coming along?
Curt: That sounds nice.
jamie peacock: at some point in this podcast because this week has been an absolute shitshow
Curt: Well, I'd say that's two weeks in a row now that you've actually done, like, not work on a Sunday. So that's probably a good thing.
jamie peacock: yep that is That is the goal, is to not be working on Sundays.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um And Carl and I had a discussion. We don't work past 7 p.m., at least not regularly. Like 7 p.m. is the hard cutoff. um Unless it's like, ah obviously there's exceptions, but that is the day-to-day. We actually went through and worked out how many minutes of the day we can assign to production because we had a customer like, oh, we need these things urgent. like, listen, friend.
jamie peacock: 540 minutes that's how many minutes in a day we can run a machine that gives us still another 120 minutes of buffer if we're working seven to seven and an hour for lunch but 540 minutes nine hours of production that is all you can expect from us um because otherwise it just gets out of hand you're working late every night because the customer can't plan so yup we're trying to try to not deal with that um
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, I don't mind working late. What's happened is now I tend to work till like six o'clock, half past five, six, 6.30 every night, because stopped being harassed around half past four, and it gives me two hours to actually be productive on stuff I want to be productive on.
Curt: Totally, yeah.
jamie peacock: Because unfortunately, yeah, running a business, people rip you in different directions every freaking two minutes.
Curt: I know a ton of people seem to do that, yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And that's just that's just being in business.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: There's nothing you can do about it. Like, unfortunately, customers get your phone number and then phone you.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah, no, exactly.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so it's yeah it's one of those things. But yeah, this ah this week didn't start off too bad. And then I was laying in bed at like midnight, think on Tuesday.
jamie peacock: I woke up, I'm like, hang on.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: The order was for 28 parts. I get 10 parts per sheet of aluminum and I only cut seven out of the last sheet. I don't think I've made enough parts. I've told the customer they can come collect, but I don't think I have enough parts.
jamie peacock: think I'm one short on every part number.
Curt: Oh, no. Oh, no.
jamie peacock: So like, fuck. So Wednesday morning, I got to work, was planning on doing other work, quickly threw all the setups back in the machine, made one of each component so that I could deliver eight of each. I thought i only needed to deliver seven.
jamie peacock: And I couldn't find the delivery note to verify it. So I'm like, well, fuck. I'm just going to make one. Rather, they get a free one, then they get short.
Curt: Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Oh, bummer.
jamie peacock: Because I was like, fuck.
Curt: That's like so stressful.
jamie peacock: Because the first... Yeah, because I did one, one of each as a sample. After I got the order, I just they wanted to validate. Then I did a batch of 10, and I had to order another sheet of material.
jamie peacock: And then I did a batch of nine because I didn't have to order another sheet of material. And then for the last batch, to order a sheet of material. So that's how i managed to figure out that I couldn't count. But fortunately, it's all on Anchor Point pallets.
Curt: fair Fair, yeah.
jamie peacock: And literally within within like 20 minutes, I was up and running the first part number. And my changeover between part numbers was like 10 minutes. Because I put the thing in, I indicated flatness and up and running again.
Curt: Okay, well, that's not heinous.
jamie peacock: Yeah,
Curt: Okay, I was wondering if they were the giant big rings where it's just like a super big...
jamie peacock: they are.
Curt: Oh, that's what those are?
jamie peacock: Yep, those ones.
Curt: okay. Well, sick.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: That's a good setup then.
jamie peacock: But literally... Yeah, so I dropped the anchor points pallets on, on the harbor, like the big pallets. I have an offset that is roughly in center, like roughly within about 20 microns, like usually.
Curt: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: I then put call up a side lock holder, put the indicator on the front of the side lock holder with the magnets, and then um measure the bore to get my center of the pallet. And it's usually like 12 to 14 microns off.
jamie peacock: um And then I check flatness just to make sure nothing has got under the pallet. So I'll sweep it for flatness, and then I'll call up tool 12, come touch tool 12 off with the with a formal pin to set the Z heart, plug in the vacuum lines, slap the material on, and hit go.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: And it just runs like...
Curt: OK. OK, that's.
jamie peacock: they They mentioned when they picked up that they want ah measurement certificates for these. So I laughed. They're like you are not quoted on that, friends. Like, we can do that going forward, but you are going to fucking shit. Because we are, the tolerance on these parts, on a half meter part, the tolerance is like a millimeter.
jamie peacock: It's fucking wild. Like, according to their tolerance, like, according their drawing, yeah, we're putting everything reasonably within 20 to 30 microns.
Curt: Oh, OK.
jamie peacock: Like, We're using the we're choosing our tools very specifically to make sure that we're making features that we can measure and using the same tool with the same comps to make the bigger features.
jamie peacock: So that we can hold tolerances without stressing too much about it, but also the tolerance is like a millimeter.
Curt: Right, okay.
Curt: Yeah, say if they're taller a millimeter, you can do almost anything and you'll be in it.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah. Can use half the fucking end mill and I'll be fine. Um,
Curt: Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: Like haven't had issues. I don't think they're having issues, but yeah I will have a chat to the guy. We're doing some molds for them. That needs to go in the machine this week. I need to start with the molds because that's like 40 hours of machining that I need to do.
Curt: Yikes.
jamie peacock: Of just surfacing.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's going to be great. I've got to rough out 60 millimeters deep in aluminum, like a giant ass pocket. At least it's open to the one side, so I'm not going to have shavings build up.
jamie peacock: But I'm going to be doing that 45 millimeter depth of cut.
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: in the hydraulic and just yoinking that material out.
Curt: Oh.
Curt: Just let it go. Yeah. Nice. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. not good It's the surfacing that eats time. This is quite a bit surfacing. But yeah. So yeah. Turns out I can't count.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It was great. Like that ate up. I did one of each plate. It took me a whole day to do one of each plate.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. But that's what it is. Lost a day there. um That was on Tuesday. Then I lost a day on Wednesday. because I have a lovely half-brained brother-in-law who helped me buy a machine and I'm forever grateful for, but he fucked off to Madagascar, and the reason I initially got sick, like I was not 100% and I was just kicking it down the road, I'm nah, not going to get sick, and then I had to help him move, and I fucking overexerted myself, and the next day I was fucking sick, when we went and offloaded the shit in Heidelberg, which is like a 45 minute drive away,
Curt: Sure. Yeah.
jamie peacock: He then fucked off. He's like, oh, no, like in a week or two, can you just go rent a trailer, pick up the shit from Heidelberg and take it to the place where you bought pool tables? they're going to put it in a container. So I'm like, I'm busy on Wednesday morning. I can do it Wednesday afternoon. He's like, no, that's fine.
jamie peacock: So I go rent a trailer. I go take the stuff. I go end up loading the trailer myself. Get there, wait half an hour to be able to offload the trailer. But now I've got a meeting that I need to get back to the workshop for.
jamie peacock: the guys, you know they'll send someone to help unload. I'm like, Danica, come fucking unload. We unloaded the trailer ourselves and then fucked off back for the meeting.
Curt: um
jamie peacock: Thursday morning, I get a phone call. Can you rent trailer and go fetch the stuff? the The container ship has been delayed and they don't want to keep his personal things there.
Curt: oh
jamie peacock: They're worried about stuff. I'm like, fuck sakes. So like yeah, I can do it tomorrow. Like I can do it on Friday. I'll get someone in to help me load. I'm not loading the shit. So Friday morning, I get to work. I do some stuff I needed to do.
jamie peacock: Wait for traffic to go away. Load Simon in the Land Rover. Cruise down to rent a trailer. Pay for the rental trailer. We hitch the trailer and my phone starts ringing. Oh, no, don't worry. You don't need to go fetch the stuff.
jamie peacock: The containers arrived.
Curt: oh
jamie peacock: Like, fuck, I've just paid for the trailer.
Curt: oh
jamie peacock: I'm like, it's fine. I drove back to my house. Loaded a bunch of long stuff on the trailer that I needed to... to load anyway, and then took that back to the workshop. So we got all like the long material that was in my driveway through to the workshop and the fridge and the table and some other shit.
jamie peacock: But yeah, what the fuck around. So I literally lost a day and a half to driving a fucking trailer around.
Curt: Oh, it sounds like pain.
Curt: Just for bullshit stuff that didn't really have to happen.
jamie peacock: Yeah, exactly.
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: It was great.
Curt: That sucks.
jamie peacock: Yeah, but here's what it is.
Curt: That sucks.
jamie peacock: um I got to drive with the trailer.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I'd only ever driven with the trailer once before that. So it was quite fun.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: The fucking thing kept following me. It was rather creepy. 10
Curt: Was like a big trailer? or like Well, I guess it's it's hooked up to your car or something, right?
jamie peacock: foot. tinfoot
Curt: Yeah, okay. Okay, fair.
jamie peacock: a 10 foot trailer like you the land rover you could feel it when it was loaded because it's only a 2.2 liter turbo so you can feel the load um also driving down had to drive down to heidelberg slowly because we had an empty trailer and it was bouncing around on the road like you had a pot like a bit of a thing in the road and it's shooting back and we behind the behind the landing it's taken a bit easy but yeah it was quite fun figured out reversing trailers it's not that hard um
Curt: Fair.
Curt: Mm-hmm.
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
Curt: Nice.
Curt: No. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, reversed it into my driveway.
Curt: On.
jamie peacock: was quite fun.
Curt: I say the tinier the trailer, the harder is to learn too. I just grew up in the country and learning how to back up horse trailers, way easier because they're like 30, 40 feet long.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And they did respond so slow. But you back up a six-foot trailer, it just goes haywire on you so fast.
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, I reversed into our driveway, so I pulled up, and then, yeah, snake it back, then pulled forward, snake it back again, then drove onto my neighbor's curb and just reversed straight back into the driveway.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Like, fucking lazy mode. Yeah, but it was fun.
Curt: That's awesome.
jamie peacock: It was an adventure. Let's put it that way. It was an adventure.
Curt: That's good. Good look at the positive, right?
jamie peacock: looked out
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that was ah it was always a waste of time, but fun. So, that's what is.
Curt: fair.
jamie peacock: Yeah, how was tuning your quads? Are you back to flying quads again?
Curt: Dude, after this vacation where I like actually got to go out and fly quads, which I haven't i don't even know what the timer would be. It's probably been like a year plus since I like had a transmitter in my hand and flew something.
Curt: And I like, I enjoy flying planes.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I and like, it's a, it's a hot. We both like started as a hobby. Like, and I was like, I got to do more of this. Cause I'm like, I just feel like I, I like it. It's like, it's a thing I could do. That's not directly tied to work.
Curt: I mean, it kind of is. Cause I could be like, I can machine so much shit, but I'm like, It's just kind of one of those things i can be like, I can just go do this. And it like, it takes enough of my brain power where it's like, I can't be thinking of anything else. It's just like, all I do is go out there and enjoy it. So yeah. So this whole week I've kind of fallen down the like rabbit hole of wanting to upgrade my quad. Cause it's like, it's all old tech now. It's like 10 years old.
Curt: So I'm like, Oh, I want to put on like a better transmitter, uh, like for video.
jamie peacock: Oh no, you. Yeah.
Curt: And then I want to put on, i want to go to like ELRS. Um, cause it's still that the one by flies still running spectrum. And like, just, there's just, oh, I know. And like, oh, just cause I had so many Bindin flies.
Curt: So i'm like, well, whatever. I had a spare and anyways, words.
jamie peacock: yeah
Curt: Um, but it's just like, I like doing this. This is so much fun. So, um, yeah, I'll probably just,
jamie peacock: um yeah check out check out the uh fuck don't know who makes it but it's the pocket it's a wicked little remote i think it's radio master pocket yeah they're really nice little remotes um yeah i'm running i've got a multi-protocol module in my q7 now for the combat robot stuff
Curt: oh yeah. Radio master. Yeah. Radio master pocket. Yeah.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: But like I haven't flown anything in years.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I mean, there's a storage up there. There's a wing wing somewhere up there as well. Like I just don't have batteries. I just haven't bought batteries for them.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: And now my nephews have ah have buggered off.
Curt: I know. It's like,
jamie peacock: Otherwise, I probably would have got into it it in the next two years or so with the older nephew.
Curt: Yeah, well, like my my oldest, she's five. She wanted to fly my quad. She's like can I have a try? i'm like, ah, no, because like this is it responds really quick.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Curt: But like I'll hook it up to my simulator and like you can fly to see how difficult they are. But like they pick shit up quick. So I'm like, I have two transmitters. So i'm like, well, I can easily set we' set up like set it up as a trainer.
Curt: So i'm like, yeah, you could totally fly. And I have two headsets. So like she could FPV fly with her own transmitter. And like, so I was like, i should get back in this because it's fun. And they like, they they come the park with me and I thought I'd give them a headset and they can watch me fly around.
Curt: They'd get a kick out of that. And yeah, so it's, don't know, it's fun.
jamie peacock: Get them into flying FOMIs, Drew. Build a nutball or something and get them into flying those things.
Curt: Dude, it's so much fun.
jamie peacock: Like, I had so much fun building planes.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, it yeah, that used to be my hobby.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I'd come home from work and then work till midnight, like 2 a.m. m building a plane so I could go fly it on the weekend. Like,
Curt: Absolutely.
jamie peacock: It was the best.
Curt: Yep.
jamie peacock: Actually, I want to get back into DLGs. I just don't have the time or inclination to build a DLG. But now that I'm not working Sundays, I might. I might actually be able to find the time for it.
Curt: I, I kind of want like, yeah, I have a, I have a bungee launch, but yeah, I would love to get just like a little DLG just because just to like,
jamie peacock: Because I've got... Yeah. Oh. Oh, nice. Little DLGs. I've got plans for a... I've got plans for the Super Bug. And then i reworked the the Meme, which is my first DLG that I had. The thing weighed, like, way too much. It was a solid balsa wing that I made. um And I used way too much glue.
jamie peacock: But it flew well for the weight. I redesigned that wing to be built the same way as the bugs are built. But when I built it, the wing didn't have enough torsional stiffness.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So I've got the parts literally below me downstairs for a square spar, a carbon fiber trailing edge, and a carbon fiber leading edge, like a round tube leading edge.
jamie peacock: And that wing, like from the from the test throws, i like I normally test throw in my front yard, and the bug will make it about two thirds.
Curt: Nice. Nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah, kind of hit the wall with the mean wing when I just gave it a light toss. It's that efficient. And then my first throw, the first throw I did, the wing just fucking vibrated to pieces.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: So I might, the laser cutter makes it super easy.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like you just laser cut all the ribs, print a template, glue it together. It takes a day or two. Covering, it's a bit of a ball ache, but it doesn't take that long to build a glider.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I've got three broken ones in my lounge downstairs, DLGs.
Curt: Yeah, well, that's...
jamie peacock: Right down.
Curt: Like, that's the thing. is there's There's so much to that...
jamie peacock: The Superbug.
Curt: Obviously, you can, like...
jamie peacock: Yeah. I would, if you want to build one, I'll send you the Superbug files. The Superbug is a fucking wicked glider. Easy build. And yeah, that's, I stretched it to one meter.
jamie peacock: It makes it fly a little bit better.
Curt: and be felt That's the problem. is like I have too many tools to, like, make it.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So, like, I'm probably... Would I like to make a plane? Probably. Am I going to in like the next, you know, five years?
jamie peacock: Probably not.
Curt: No. Like, I'm just going to just buy it.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Like, I it i enjoy the the, I do enjoy the building of it.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It is a lot of fun. But right now, like, my favorite thing is just going going on and flying.
jamie peacock: but ah yeah
Curt: So I'm just like, I just buy shit that will already fly. And then I made a, I made a bajillion foamies back in the day.
jamie peacock: this I should not I just I did a stupid curse.
Curt: So what are you looking at now?
jamie peacock: Searched on AliExpress for a DLG.
Curt: Yeah, don't even do that. Don't don't do that. Don't look at AliExpress for anything because, yeah, I went on there and I was...
jamie peacock: Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah no deadline um
Curt: Same thing. I was looking. i'm like, oh, a new transmitter does this. we know like Can I do this? and i'll do I'm like, get off here. What are you doing? like I have something that works. Go in the park. Turn it on.
jamie peacock: I might just buy DLG.
Curt: Go fly.
jamie peacock: um Because I do enjoy flying DLGs like a hell of a lot. might just buy a DLG and just they'll do the last little bit of mounting servos and receivers and shit.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah, so...
jamie peacock: The last time I flew my DLGs, we drove to Durban.
Curt: Anyways, just...
jamie peacock: And Joburg is on the Escarpon. Like, there's a fucking hill, like a ramp to get to us. And my mate Dave and I stopped at the top of Van Rienland's Pass and flew for like two and a hours.
jamie peacock: To the point that we could barely see our gliders.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: They were that high up, sloping.
Curt: Yeah, that's fun.
jamie peacock: It was freaking wild. Yeah. And also at the beach. Like, we we flew for hours at the beach.
Curt: I will say that like if if anybody listened to this and if you flew planes or helis or quads or whatever, if you when you fly a glider, like the first time like the first time my bungee launched my glider, and a bungee launch gets it up like whatever, 50 feet, 100 feet.
Curt: The first time you like hook up with a thermal or like you said, just like slope sawing and you get it to the point where you can't see it anymore. It's such a trip to be like, you got all the way up there on, on nothing, like on just rising air.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah.
Curt: It's so cool. You're like, this is so fricking cool.
jamie peacock: So my mate Dave had an elf and I had my my yellow bug. I made a bug with ailerons. And we have a video somewhere of us tandem discus launching.
jamie peacock: So we're few meters apart, and we both spin and throw.
Curt: Oh, cool.
jamie peacock: And that day, we were getting rolling thermals through the field. So there was some danger tape on a pole, and you would watch that tape. It was maybe 20 meters ahead of us. And the tape would be flapping, and it would drop.
jamie peacock: And as soon as it dropped, you launched. And then you would launch straight into the thermal and you could climb quickly. And then the thermal would blow past us. And we couldn't fly behind us because of the sun. So we would ride the thermal up and then cruise around and try and wait for the next one to come through.
jamie peacock: Like it was yeah so much fun.
Curt: Yeah, that's so fun.
jamie peacock: I mean, we flew, there's a cliff we flew here where you literally land because your neck is sore and your arms are sore from holding your transmitter and looking up.
Curt: It is so fun.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's fucking great.
Curt: was just to say, you land because your transmitter battery getting low after you know four hours of flying. Yeah, it's it's it's fun.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it's ah it's great. Like, but yeah, that's that's a hobby I should probably get back into at some point. But anyway, back to the machining topics.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Although I guess we could talk about machining glider parts.
Curt: Yeah. Tell me about your... ah did We shouldn't. ah Tell me about assembling your office.
jamie peacock: the ah Yeah, I started assembling my office so yesterday.
jamie peacock: sorry, not yesterday, Friday afternoon, had Danica measure all the spacing between the vertical studs so I could cut planks to go in between.
jamie peacock: So I finally wasn't using the vacuum pump on the LK, so I could use the extension cord that runs that for now to run the saw.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: So I chopped all of those, went upstairs, started screwing the studs together, and started cladding the office with the OSB. So the office is coming along finally. I need Danica to just come there one day and help me.
jamie peacock: Like I've got to cut the top of the studs i've got to cut a notch out of one piece so it's easier if there's two people uh but yeah the office is getting cladded the anno setup is moving forward i bought a new ro filter um i so i'm and i bought the extractor so i need to build the workbench for that and then the anno can move to the workshop i think i'm gonna have to get rid of my acid though no not yet
Curt: No AstroTurf?
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: But she wants to theme her office apothecary theme.
Curt: What's wrong with the acid?
jamie peacock: I'm like, bitch, it's a fucking office. Computer and desk.
Curt: god as we just talked
jamie peacock: Doesn't need a fucking theme. Like, for fuck's sakes. Don't waste time and money on dumb shit. Like, it's an office. It's actually an assembly room. and Yeah.
Curt: As we just talked for like 20 minutes about RC airplanes, don't waste money on dumb shit. It's like, I'm going to buy another glider. in the Anyway.
jamie peacock: That is important.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: Making your office look like an apothecary is not. Like, yeah.
Curt: Not to you. Fair.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I fucking, office doesn't need decoration, needs to be practical. Like that is my assembly room for assembling products. That's what it's actually there for. And for doing some light admin.
Curt: Yeah,
jamie peacock: But yeah, I started closing and it gets very dark when you put walls. um So I need to get the walls up so that I can put the roof on so that I can put a light in there.
Curt: yeah. Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah, we powering through getting that done. Again, trying not to overexert myself because I've been actively dying.
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Because I was coming right and then i loaded and unloaded that trailer and then I felt like death the next morning. So, yeah, trying to...
Curt: it's It's funny how when you so when you steal the energy from your body, it's creepy how fast you can fall back into feeling like death. It's like, oh, that's what you're using all that energy for, is making me feel decent.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah, like now we're going to go for a 5k this morning.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I'm like, eh, don't know how i feel about that. I do like it walking with my doggo, so I will tolerate it.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um But yeah, kind of done.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: ah So what internet backups have you implemented?
Curt: ah So, somebody... The internet here dropped out. If anyone's watching this, I know no one watches. I'm staring at usually this screen, which Jamie is usually on, but right now he's on a side screen.
Curt: That's why my I'm looking all sideways. Anyways, the internet dropped out one day, which is also hilarious because then all my lights and everything drops. I have like... With the home automation, like we always talk about, um none of us were smart enough to like hard code just a button somewhere.
jamie peacock: yeah
Curt: So like all my lights are like, well, nothing turns on now and... Everything just, yeah, I don't want to build my own little local network because that means I have to rename everything.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And like, I just, it's so tedious. I'm like, I'm just going to wait till it's fixed and then it'll all go back online. Anyways, ah internet people came out. They're like, yeah, it's not your line. It's somewhere down the street.
Curt: I'm like, i kind of figured because it seemed like it was affecting a lot of things.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So yeah, someone blew up something down the road, so they'll fix it in a few days. But it just made me realize like how important internet is. like Right now, I'm i'm hotspotting to to do this live, which is, we're lucky.
Curt: like I live in a world where we have super fast internet and
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: You can do that, yeah.
Curt: Yeah, and actually I spent $2 more on my phone plan and upgraded it so I have like 150 gigs of this. So I can do this for a long time now.
jamie peacock: Nice.
Curt: But I was just like, like internet here is something that I never worry about.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Like it's it's on 99.99% of the time, but it's like, I depend on it. Like if I can't log on the internet, like, oh, maybe I can't open fusion or I can't read emails or I can't respond to messages from you.
jamie peacock: That's... yeah.
Curt: It's just like, it is super important. So I'm like, okay, I have to make sure that I have a backup. And that's what I put in place now. But for everything, like we've talked about, like the super critical things like air or power or internet or like, you know, is it go down a day?
jamie peacock: Yeah, you've got to have them.
Curt: Like what is it to cost you per day?
jamie peacock: Well, yeah. So our internet here went down because a water pipe burst and they dug through the fiber line to get to it. um I then went and got a data sim with like two gigs of data for the month that lives in the router.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: If we if for the internet goes down, it auto kicks over to that and then I can just top it up from my my banking app. I can just buy a buy the data the data we need to be able to function because again, you have no internet, you have nothing.
jamie peacock: Like it's, yeah, we've become very, very, um, uh, dependent on it.
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
Curt: Yeah, in like a creepy way where you don't even realize you're like, oh, yeah. I'm like, why isn't this on? I'm like, oh, yeah, because that's connected to that. Right. I'm like, why isn't this working?
jamie peacock: So I put my, um, I put my home assistant on its own network.
Curt: Because it's connected to that.
Curt: Yeah, it's smart.
jamie peacock: Even when I, yeah, when when I set up here, put a mesh network in and that runs my home assistant. At the shop, the mesh, sorry, the network of home assistant is on a separate, it's on its own Wi-Fi router. And then I've got my ISPs router that just passes through to it.
jamie peacock: That way, if I change ISPs, nothing gets fucked up because my neighbor had it on his ISP and shit got fucked up.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Well, that's that's the thing I did here too is I built, um i have like, same same as you, like, oh, great fun.
jamie peacock: Oh, joy.
jamie peacock: Our water pressure's low. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: um
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Same thing here is I put i put a wireless but connection that connects everything and then that just bridges to my modem.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: um But they the problem is they're owned by the same company and they talk really well with each other.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So when the wireless realized the modem was down, it was just like, oh, I'll just shut everything off.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: i'm like, no, could you just keep the like the Wi-Fi live? like I know there's no internet connection, but there's LAN connections.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And it's like, no, we don't do that here.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: i was like fuck. Okay, never mind. So I could fix that, but it's just a lot of I don't want to do it right now.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that's the issue. like So Home Assistant here at home keeps booting me off the network on the app, and I don't know why need figure it out. I think i just need to upgrade, update.
jamie peacock: But the workshop kept ah deauthenticating my smart switches, which was a bug apparently. It should be fixed now. But you've got to turn the lights you can't turn the fucking lights off because, nope, we don't talk to those anymore.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So I had to show Carl how to boop all the buttons to turn everything off because, yeah, just fucking frustrating.
Curt: Yeah. Right.
jamie peacock: um But yeah, like home assistant at the workshop is functional. It is not at its end goal yet. Like now when I'm running all the mold stuff, I'll take some time to get the LK attached home assistant there so that I know when it's off. So if the LK, I'm going to set it up that if the LK is running and Ironman mode is disabled, the compressor and drain system stay on until the LK switches off.
jamie peacock: so that if I leave it to run it out, I can just say Ironman mode off and I know the compressor is handled because right now that turns the compressors off.
Curt: Yeah, and that's actually what I was thinking.
jamie peacock: So yeah, I'm trying to...
Curt: when when When my system went down here and like I couldn't turn my lights on, I'm like, okay, that's not a big deal.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: But I'm like, if I would have to do this like for my compressors, I'm like, I'm going to make sure when I do this on my compressor... I shouldn't say it's that it's not that critical because like every single device I have here, when it defaults to off, it it creates its own little micro hotspot.
Curt: So if I have to turn them on, like I can log into each single thing and turn them on, but it's just super tedious if you have like 20 or 30 things to all turn on.
jamie peacock: Yes.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So yeah, just like, just made me reconsider like, oh, if I put my, like put, or put my compressor on it's like, okay, I'll make it so that I have just like a manual overrides to be like, just in case.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it sucks if you've got a
Curt: Yeah, lots fun.
jamie peacock: to... Yeah. No, I put that on my lights in the workshop. I put a manual override button. Or I put it in the code. I never physically implemented it. because I'm not that smart.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Exactly, yeah, exactly.
jamie peacock: So you can go and short two pins. I just can't remember what the pins are. um
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But the smart switches that we've got at the workshop, if you use PowerCycle, they remember their last state.
Curt: Yeah,
Curt: yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: And then connect to the network, and then they are. It's a little bit weird. But it like Home Assistant is really useful to have. Like we've got cameras. We actually have a video of one of my customers falling. um
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: He walked out the back and stood on a piece of wood, lost his balance, fell over, and then kicked the piece of wood. um Fucking hilarious. um Yeah, so like they're recording with frigates. But yeah, been having issues with home assistant, but I also haven't given it enough time to say, or to fix it. Like, I've been busy with other stuff.
Curt: Well, like as much as we'll bitch and we whinge and stuff about all this like automated systems, I will say that the 99.9% of the time that it works, like I don't touch light switches in here.
Curt: They turn on and off. I don't touch any of the exterior lighting on my house.
jamie peacock: yeah
Curt: It all is controlled. Like I don't, I haven't thought about that for a year. i just wake up and my lights are off. I go to bed and they turn on and they, they color cycle and they dim and they do, they do everything I want them to do. So yeah, for 99% of the time, it doesn't even cross my mind.
jamie peacock: or we've we've got a lamp Yeah. We've got a lamp in our lounge that turns on automatically at half past five, turns off at half past nine in the evening. And it only works if the computer's on because the um the ESP gets power from the USB ports on the computer.
jamie peacock: So like last night, computer, I turned the computer off the day before the light wasn't fucking on.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So I had to go turn that on and then turn the PC on, open home assistance, log in again, turn the lights on so I could see where the button for the soundbar was.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: But yeah, fucking... can yeah yeah I like the the automation side of things, but yeah we've we're having issues with authentication and shit like that and getting booted from the app all the time on the home network.
jamie peacock: So I think today I'll just tell it do updates and let it update everything and see if that solves our issues.
Curt: Hopefully.
jamie peacock: Also, on an interesting note, Hobby King no longer do DLGs.
Curt: h
Curt: Oh, good to know.
jamie peacock: Like at all. The only glider they have is a Bixler.
Curt: I wonder why. oh probably because no one buys them.
jamie peacock: They're probably just yeah killing product lines as they run out of stock. But anyway, um
Curt: Tell me about your...
jamie peacock: yeah, the LK.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: ye okay No, no.
Curt: Yeah, sure. Yeah, lid of the LK. Yeah, tell me that.
jamie peacock: which one did you want Which one did you want to go with? Because I think they're both tying to each other.
Curt: No, there's enough. Well, you can do both.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: there's ah You said the LK needs a lid and 45 hours of printing.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So tell me about both of those.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I've had the printer for one week. Of that week, I've only been playing with it for five days, and we've got 45 hours of prints already on it.
Curt: Wow. That's a lot.
jamie peacock: Been printing shit fucked up. But yeah, was printing tooltakes. I'm like, fuck why is the print not sticking to the bed? Like in two spots. So I washed the bed, and then it was fine. But yeah, LK is spraying coolant over the top and landing on the printer.
jamie peacock: Ha ha.
Curt: okay. That makes sense.
jamie peacock: Yeah, because it doesn't have lid. So, yeah. But yeah I've been printing a shitload, been making tool tags. Having some issues with printing PETG that I'm trying to work through. um Seems like, or ah think it was a flow calibration assured block nozzle.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: I'll mess around with it tomorrow. But yeah, the printer's freaking wicked. ah printed spindle gripping trays because I don't have my laser cutter at work. So I needed to machine 75 little parts. So i just printed trays, holds 25 per tray.
jamie peacock: And then ah had that run, printed the grip of fingers, like all in one day, printed everything while the machine was running another job, got all the stuff prepped, took me less than half an hour to be running automatically, and then ran three hours of unattended production while I did other shit.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: um But yeah, the the printer's freaking wicked, but now I need a lid for the LK. So... i was like, ooh, let me buy some aluminum extrusion. Let me buy a 20 by 20 millimeter T-start extrusion.
jamie peacock: And then the shipping was going to be wildly expensive because I wanted it 1.7 meters long. then I'm like, hang on, I can just buy square tubing. Why the fuck am I buying extrusion? I'm not screwing into it. Let me just buy square tubing. It's way cheaper. I'll 3D print some dinguses and like pop the thing together.
jamie peacock: It's a lid. It doesn't need to be adjustable.
Curt: Sure. yeah yeah
jamie peacock: So yeah, making a frame and putting some I've got impacts, which is a PT sheet that I'm just going to put over the top of the machine, just so that I don't have coolant flying over onto to my computer.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. That's probably nice. Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: I also need to empty Monica today so that I can clean her and take her because I'm changing coolants. I've got the new coolant in. The FlexiLube BioCool AL, which is the aluminum specific, like it's so new they don't have a data sheet for it yet.
Curt: Ooh, hope it works well for you.
jamie peacock: So we will see yeah we'll see how that works on them. Yeah, me too. I'm going to keep the other coolants and buckets on hand for like a week just in case it's shut. Then I can roll back to the one I have.
jamie peacock: The only one issue i have with the one that I've got now is it tends to get thicker the longer it runs because of the whey oil getting into it because it's quite a high mineral oil content.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Oh, okay. okay okay
jamie peacock: So yeah it gets thicker and thicker, which is not not the end of the world. It just clogs one of my full ma mesh filter things. So my coolant pressure goes down even though the coolant's pretty full. um But yeah, it works. it works beautifully on the lathes. um It works well on the mill. The finishes I'm getting are wild.
jamie peacock: But yeah, going to try the new one for shits and giggles.
Curt: Nice, nice.
jamie peacock: So, you know, fun times. Yeah, and then, yeah, I was playing with Spindle Groupers.
Curt: Sweet.
jamie peacock: It's fucking great. um Actually reprogrammed up the the new ones last night. i'm going to run them tomorrow. added So the the Handy Semen is compatible with the Nimble g Gripper and the Shunk PGN64. So I had to just rework some of the stuff in the the machining so that it has all the required holes. i actually added an M5 hole to it, like a random M5 hole, so that I can rack it from that hole.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: for anodizing.
Curt: Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah, like adding specific features just, like it's just there for anodizing.
Curt: Smart, yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah, that's all programmed and going to go in the machine tomorrow. And then Carl's making the side lock adapters, which seem to be more popular than the BT30 adapters.
Curt: Interesting.
jamie peacock: Yeah, which I'm not really surprised.
Curt: I would have thought the other way around.
jamie peacock: Like most people have Cat40s.
Curt: I guess.
jamie peacock: Like all the horses are Cat40s.
Curt: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: So yeah. um But yeah, we've got some of those heading out in the next week or so.
Curt: Cool. That's awesome. That's good.
jamie peacock: And then I've got, yeah, i've got I've got some other stuff on the way for the next product line. And then I need to, today i actually want to do some surface mount soldering on the opto-isolator boards.
jamie peacock: So all the boards have come in. I've got most of the components. So I want to build up a board and just check that everything works.
Curt: Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: And then I'll get the last components in and carry on.
Curt: Nice. Sick.
jamie peacock: So it should be fun. Yeah, going have a fanciness. And then we've got Opto Isolator boards. I need to still design the enclosure and print the enclosures for those. But yeah that's a problem for another day.
jamie peacock: I'm now kind of interested in how you had...
Curt: And Jamie's ever-growing list.
jamie peacock: Oh yeah, my wireless is ever-growing. You had to tear down and set up a gazebo.
Curt: Dude, so my my wife wanted a gazebo.
jamie peacock: Wait, hang on, hang on.
Curt: um
jamie peacock: before we Before we get into this, before we get into that, let's let's thank our Patreons quickly, because, ah yes, I think they're all here.
Curt: Yeah, yeah. Let's do that.
jamie peacock: One second. um Sorry, I just want to make sure everyone is on the list, because I don't think everyone is on the list. a Uh...
Curt: i'll do the train while we wait
jamie peacock: No, everyone is not on the list.
Curt: two two
jamie peacock: Yeah, uh, I know we've got a better one than that.
Curt: oh we got a better one oh
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: this what you were i think is what you were smirking about earlier is now i'm concerned
jamie peacock: It is. ah Okay, cool. So, the Patreons make the wheels on the minecart go round and round.
Curt: ah but That's awesome.
jamie peacock: We'll play it again for shits and giggles. Um...
Curt: that's awesome
jamie peacock: Thank you to all the Patreons. ah Yeah, you are helping greatly with the trip to IMTS. Speaking of IMTS, we will be having a meetup on the Monday where Kurt will be a cardboard cutout at two o'clock at the G28 booth.
jamie peacock: Everyone is welcome, not just the Patreons. There will be a form going up this week, Kurt and Danica. um for our Patreons and for anyone else that's going to meet up just so we can have an idea of how many people are going to be at the meetup.
jamie peacock: But yeah, that'll be Monday 2pm at G28. But yeah, the Patreons, they all get access to the After Show. Last week they got a bonus episode because the After Show kind of shat the bed. um
Curt: Sorry.
jamie peacock: Yeah, like hard. Yeah. Anyway, our top tier patrons, they all get a shout out every week and that list seems to be growing. That list is...
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: jade from pro twenty luke from fantastic aj from subtract manufacturing your eyes as non-bonacles jason s e j from matern welding who has a whole pile of killel clamps The Aussie Machinists, Christian Olsen, Charles Watt, Kyle from Curse Machine, Matt from Off-World Gear, Alex B, John from 2SEN Performance and Engine Tricks, Matt from Modern Fuel, Josh from Leighton Machine, Greg from Tabletop Machine Shop, Ben from Prickly Pear Prototypes, and Jesse Felton from Datapro.
jamie peacock: Probably shouldn't have their full name in there, but anyway. Thank you, guys. You make the wheels on the mine cart go round and round.
Curt: Dude, my heart, my heart just, it it picks up speed.
jamie peacock: I love the mine cart noises.
Curt: It gets excited. It's like, wait, where are we going? Are we we going the mines? Are we going go mining? so
jamie peacock: oh
Curt: What is, what is in my animalistic brain?
jamie peacock: Yeah, that, so yeah, EJ, EJ was bored at his in-laws, so he made that image.
Curt: and
jamie peacock: He made another one with both of us, but we look creepy, so I'll just send you that one.
Curt: Oh, I want the creepy one now.
jamie peacock: Well, actually, no, didn't send it to you.
Curt: Wow.
jamie peacock: I sent it to your wife, which made it even better.
Curt: Yes, you did send it to my wife. She showed it to me and like, I was like, that's creepy.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I'm like, I wonder if Jamie did that or if one the Patreons did it or someone it. Anyways, I appreciate it.
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, that was EJ.
Curt: It made me laugh.
jamie peacock: We were discussing it on Friday night, and then that came through late Friday night.
Curt: That's so, it's so awesome.
jamie peacock: It's funny. Yeah, it's great how quickly you can get ah the AR overlords to generate random crap for you.
Curt: Dude, if we're going to destroy our planet, I am wholeheartedly on board with doing it for a generation of stupid images. Because that is the best way to do go about our demise.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: It is. Yep, at least it'll be memetacular.
Curt: hu Yeah, so much better than getting chained down by some sort of black mirror robot.
jamie peacock: So...
Curt: Anyway.
jamie peacock: Yeah, exactly. So your wife wanted a gazebo.
Curt: Yeah. So she wanted a gazebo um and she found one on marketplace, of course, because you can find everything on marketplace. And it was ah enormous. I'm sorry. Enormous in the land of what I would think is for a gazebo. It was 10 feet by 14 feet, which takes up like the whole bottom of my deck. So the catch was it's like half an hour away. And the guy was like, ah here's a good deal for it, but you have to completely take it apart, move it and then put it back up. And I was like,
Curt: Uh, sure. Whatever. Like it was a good enough deal. I was like, even if I paid myself the entire day, if I took it, you i did I did on the weekend, but if I took a day and did it, it's still more than I would make in a day for the discounts.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah.
Curt: I was like, deal. Um, so yeah, I did that today. Um, so I got up super early and, uh, met him there and tore it all down in the fricking blazing sun, put it all in the truck, drove the truck here and then unloaded it and did everything opposite to put it back together again, which just feels It's like when you, it's like when you need to miss your turnoff on the highway and you feel like every step you're taking, you're like, this is dumb.
Curt: This is dumb. That was kind of like how my day felt. Cause i'm like, I'm taking this apart only to put this 9,000 different screws right back into the same place. Anyways, it's up. It's lovely. It's got mosquito netting. Mosquitoes here right now are so bad.
Curt: You can't even breathe outside. So before this podcast, me my wife sat out there and we had a what dude, they're enormous.
jamie peacock: you carried away
Curt: They're like hummingbirds here. Um, Anyways, we sat out there with the lights on. We just chilled. There was no mosquitoes biting us. The little people were in bed. it was It was lovely.
jamie peacock: that's lovely very nice yeah doing facebook marketplace deals like it um
Curt: It's worth it already. So I'm just fucking dead. My body feels like it's made of stone. But that was my fun. That was my fun for today.
Curt: yeah.
Curt: Dude, they're awesome. Yeah, they're awesome.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so our AR overlords.
Curt: So what but what did Carl do?
jamie peacock: Oh, okay, we'll get to that.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: ah Yeah, Cole. So we were setting up a job that he met he brought in. were making like little fucking pointy dinguses for some lab equipment.
jamie peacock: And we set it up. We're grooving these parts with a 3mm grooving tool in the gang block. And it was chattering a bit. And we're like, it's bit weird. So we ran the first part. And then was like, just check the insert. And he went check the insert, and the whole tool holder, whole stick tool was loose.
jamie peacock: The way that clamps down, the gang block snapped.
Curt: Oh.
Curt: Ooh. That's not ideal.
jamie peacock: Yeah. The problem is, that gang block runs... It's going to run probably 7,000 parts this month.
Curt: Ooh, okay.
jamie peacock: So I've got to patch it. So I had to make a left-handed bar puller because we just put in my quick change tool post to the side that the parts catcher can still go through. And then we had to make a left-hand bar puller that's still bolted to the gang block but faced the other way so that we could get the production running.
jamie peacock: So once this is done, I'll take the gang block, throw it in the mill, mill the top off, and put a steel plate that does the clamping.
Curt: Okay. Yeah, gotcha.
jamie peacock: that's held in with like six screws so it's not the end of the world but yeah he's not to live this down anytime soon like every time it comes to the sun like did you break every time it comes towards me did you break a gang block again um but yeah that's like that is our gang block that runs all our production so now i've got to unfuck it uh but yeah that's a that's a quick this week thing to unfuck it's not the end of the world um
Curt: That's awesome.
jamie peacock: But yeah, I'm busy. i don't know if you saw my stories this week. I'm printing tool tags in different colors and retagging all my tools. And then the next step is to audit my tool libraries.
jamie peacock: So i was like, how do print a list? Because I i don't ah don't have the time to sit and audit the entire tool library in one go. So I don't want to be going through and re-auditing tools.
Curt: Sure.
jamie peacock: So I made a little webpage. You export a CSV of your tool library, throw it in there, and it gives you a printable thing with tick boxes, holder, stick out, tool geometry, and...
jamie peacock: defaults or presets and you can tick off that you've done everything that way you can do one tool go do something else come back ah i've got a few minutes let me audit some more tools and you can work your way through your tool list so i made a web page it's on git pages we'll put a link to it if anyone wants to print out a list of what is in their tool library so yeah kind of yeah
Curt: That's kind of nice because then you can just, you can peace at it. Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Exactly. You can print a list, you know you're not going to miss any tools, and you know everything is accurate. Because like I know my tool library is not accurate. I've moved from an ER20 to a DC6 for ma my 2mm NML.
jamie peacock: um I know the stick-out settings for my For a lot of my stuff is not correct in in my library because I set it up to run anchor points where I've got to reach a little bit deeper. as So I pulled the thread mills a little bit further out of the holder.
jamie peacock: So I want to have that updated that I don't, I can trust my simulation. It's only a three axis machine, but you want to be able to trust your sim.
jamie peacock: And like now 12 mills are all in hydraulics.
Curt: 100%. Yeah.
jamie peacock: So I need to be able to know how deep I can reach without without smashing a hydraulic into a pot.
Curt: Yeah, that would be less fun. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, mostly because hydraulics are expensive. But yeah, kind of cool little website. Literally took me like an hour to build. Wasn't too much of a ball egg. Did some stupid shit. But yeah, then was like, no, make it pretty. Put it there.
jamie peacock: Add a readme. And it yeah, it's deployed enough now.
Curt: That's nuts. It's nuts what you can do.
jamie peacock: But yeah, it's wild.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But I think the internet's about to get very full of stupid little apps like this. Like everyone's developing a little app to do something.
Curt: Oh, yeah.
jamie peacock: Like...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: No, I got a message on Instagram this this morning.
Curt: I...
jamie peacock: I woke up to a message about spindle gripping, asking how we program it. And I need to respond. I'm like, I'll respond to this later because this actually requires, he's got like 10 questions in this one one paragraph.
jamie peacock: So I need to actually just work through to make sure i hit all the things that he needs answers to.
Curt: Yeah, that's, it's it's funny. I noticed that on the, on like, that sounds like a positive interaction that you're gonna have I noticed it so much more on, like, negative negative interactions where people are like, um I can, like, be like, I can do blank, blank, blank for you.
Curt: Like, kind of like those spammy things you get. Like, we can put your business in front of, you know, whatever, 100 new I, but, like, it's everybody trying to, like, capitalize on, like, their little piece of crap
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: spaghetti code that they've made that's like I can do this with it's like yeah so could I like I can make a piece of shitty software in 10 minutes as well um ah yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It doesn't. Yeah. So yeah, that that is exactly it. Like you can very quickly have a custom piece of software doing generating something for you. Like it's not difficult.
Curt: yeah yeah totally
jamie peacock: um yeah it's something i need to i need to have a chat to some people about but yeah we will take it as it comes um like yeah programming this middle group i'm generating gcode it's fucking great you want to tweak something you go tweak it you repost you regenerate the code export it and you hit go and you've now changed the pick and place offsets like it's super fucking and easy
Curt: Nice. That's awesome.
jamie peacock: So do not. young that It's freaking great. And that literally probably in total has eight hours worth work into it with all the add ons and shit that I've added to it. Probably eight hours of work. I had it running within an hour.
Curt: Yeah, that's that's crazy.
jamie peacock: So it's. It's it's wild.
Curt: That's great.
jamie peacock: I might rebuild it from the ground up for different machines. So mine is very niche down for my setup. So i'm thinking I might just rework it for some. other machines.
jamie peacock: Mine, in theory, supports other machines, but I haven't validated any of that, and I don't really want to validate any of that. Like, I'll keep it niched down for the Siemens controller.
Curt: Sure. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Because, you the syntax, like, shit gets weird um because of the spindle orientation on the Siemens is a S-PoS equals the angle, not an M19 and then a P or whatever for the angle.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So yeah it's kind of like validating as a board.
Curt: Yeah. Well, someone, someone can take what you have and spit it through their own little fricking prompt and make it work for themselves.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Exactly. Yeah.
Curt: Well, yeah. Okay.
jamie peacock: You can literally, it' it is a single HTML file that I have. There's one HTML file that generates all the code. You could put that through and say, hey, make this work for my machine.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: And it would it would do that. Obviously, you would need to check everything because it's a robot and it can't be trusted. um You need to validate, but that's not difficult.
jamie peacock: Because yeah I'm now I need to spend probably five or six hours on my piece of software to add in two more functions.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I need to add attorney over function and a second op function.
Curt: yeah you baby
jamie peacock: But that yeah that's this week's problem. I think I might find some time this week for it.
Curt: Nice. Sick.
jamie peacock: Super fun.
Curt: Well, that's a perfect segue into talking about like robots and things that rule the world and tell us how to do everything.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And then my wife got, fruit for our birthdays, um but like, I don't know. it's It's my philosophy, like when you're this age and you're in, you know, you're you make like a few bucks, you could probably buy whatever you want for yourself for your birthday. So like buying each other gifts is always kind of weird. So our, our goal is always to buy, so buy the other person something that they like want, but they probably would never buy for themselves because either it's like frivolous or it's too expensive for its purpose or whatever. Um, so,
Curt: My wife bought me, ah it's called The Book. you've probably seen it on Instagram or whatnot. um It's just enormous freaking tome of a book. And it just has like shit and information for everything. Like you want to know make penicillin? It's in there. You want to know how to do a lobotomy? It's in there. like And it's beautifully illustrated.
jamie peacock: Interesting choices, just saying.
Curt: There was no AI in it. Yeah, okay, sorry. Those are weird ones. um But like, it's all illustrated and they mix in like mythical things and then they they mix in some like pop culture references and it's like, it's all done by humans and most of it was vetted. i don't know, this is what I'm reading online and what I've known from looking at the book. The paper feels great. It's really pretty. It's really expensive. It's a really pretty book.
Curt: um But yeah, I went through and I was watching ah or reading about how to make soap and I'm like, these characters look kind of familiar. And then I look, I'm like, they kind of look fight clubby.
Curt: And then like as I'm reading through the paragraphs, it's like,
jamie peacock: Oh, nice.
Curt: Yeah, it's like the ah first rule about making soap is you don't talk about making soap. And i was like, oh, sick. They did put a reference to Fight Club in there.
jamie peacock: oh
Curt: And like, yeah.
jamie peacock: That's amazing.
Curt: So anyways, and the whole book is that. There's like little subtle references everywhere. It's just such a cool little book to flip through. Anyways, folks, if you're looking for a gift for somebody that just likes to know shit, the book.
Curt: It's ah it's pretty sick. It was like, I think, the most funded Kickstarter, like in the history of literary Kickstarter.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So don't know. It's cool.
jamie peacock: Oh, wow.
Curt: I like it. Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it looks like a wicked book. Like, it really looks like an awesome...
Curt: it's so It's so pretty.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it looks freaking sweet. I've made a mistake again.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Let me go out of there. But yeah, it looks freaking cool. Like, it's in my Google box because I was looking at i was looking at it last night, I think. the night I can't remember.
Curt: just...
jamie peacock: All the nights blending together. Yeah.
Curt: I just like the the prettiness of it. like it just looks pretty. I like the artwork. it's I like the information. Just everything is kind of cool.
jamie peacock: Well, we currently we've got...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: what's the book called? Oh fuck, it's covered stuff. um It's the, George R. R. Martin book, The History of the Realm order it something, goes into the history of all the houses of Game of Thrones because were watching House of the Dragon and it it's based on that book.
Curt: Okay.
Curt: Okay. Okay.
jamie peacock: So yeah, like that and it's really beautifully illustrated as well. So like we were watching and Danica's paging through the book to see where we are in the book and how they've changed it from the story. ah Yeah, she's a proper nerd.
jamie peacock: But yeah, pretty books are pretty.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: luck Yeah, I enjoy it.
Curt: Yeah. 100%. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Even like good old encyclopedias. I remember in school going and looking stuff up and so in the encyclopedia, in the library. like before Before Google was a thing.
Curt: ah on our on our trip to... When I went to BC, we went into a bunch of little bookstores because I like bookstores. My wife loves bookstores. And I found the... I think it was 1950s Popular Mechanics ah like full encyclopedic set. I guess they did like a whole encyclopedia set.
Curt: I almost bought... It was $300, so it was a little steep. But it was like 15 volumes, and they were all super thick. And it was all 1950s era of Popular Mechanics. So it's like just...
Curt: heinous information is this yeah
jamie peacock: Back when, yeah, like, how do you get rid of old oil? You dig a hole, put gravel in and pour the oil into it.
Curt: absolutely and like i have i have a gang of old like 1940s popular mechanics popular science and like every one of them is like first you do you go into your garage and you turn on your lathe it's just like of course you have one like i've i've probably said this on the podcast before but i love it it's great yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's, yeah, it's crazy. Like, of course you have a lathe in your garage. Like, who wouldn't? It's, yeah, it's awesome.
Curt: On the back, the backside of mine is like, it has a big advert for like camel cigarettes. like the number one cigarette recommended by doctors. And it's like all these like people are like, yeah, this is like, this great.
jamie peacock: That's yeah, I love that.
Curt: and This is great.
jamie peacock: You have sent me down a very dark rabbit hole today, Kurt.
Curt: Yeah. Anyway.
jamie peacock: Anyway, I keep getting distracted.
Curt: Sorry, dude.
jamie peacock: No, no, it's fine. What is in your Google box?
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: Ooh.
Curt: what's up uh oh yeah okay my google box um lot of it is just pertaining to ah fpv stuff because i've been locked onto to that um how elrs works because i did not know how that actual so
jamie peacock: When you figure that out, please let me know.
Curt: Oh, I'll link a video. I found a super good YouTube video.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: it just And it assumes you have knowledge of physics. It's not like super basic. It's kind of like, oh, this is interesting.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: like it's It's talking about a carrier wave manipulation and frequency manipulation.
jamie peacock: Well, my... my e lrs transmitter is downstairs i took it out of my remote because i couldn't get it to work properly like i didn't actually read the manual it's sitting downstairs and i've got the multi-protocol in now but yeah i have an e lrs thing we wanted them for the gliders because they're so small and light the receivers yeah they're freaking cool but okay it's wild yeah like with an antenna that's like three millimeters cubed it's freaking insane
Curt: So anyways, it's really good.
Curt: OK.
Curt: Yeah, totally. And good for like a bajillion miles. Yeah, they're amazing. Yeah.
Curt: Well, and for the turbo nerds out there, ELRS can read a signal below the signal-to-noise floor. So like... like it's insane.
jamie peacock: Oh wow. Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. It's, it's, and I had no, I'm like, how the hell does it do that?
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So anyways, this video explains it, how it's like, it's patterning so you can determine it below a noise floor. But anyways, I'll link the video and it's super good stuff. If you're into that nerdy radio comm kind of stuff. um Anyways, sorry.
Curt: ELRS, FPV shit, just a host of it that I'm not going to bore everybody about. Camera bit rates because video um for cameras I'm looking at for my shop and then also to slap onto things cause it's fun.
Curt: And then, um, Buffalo chicken wing recipes. Cause I'm super hooked on Buffalo chicken wings right now. And I had a whole gang of them before this podcast and I still feel pretty good.
jamie peacock: Nice.
Curt: So, um, yeah, there anyway, what's in, uh, what's in your Google box.
jamie peacock: My Google box is flight KLM 591 because I was going to fetch my sister-in-law from the airport on Wednesday night. Looking up the Rand dollar because reasons. I think I was chatting to the guys on Friday night about it.
jamie peacock: And we're comparing prices of things. Looking up car rentals or rentals. Rent a Cisseless, if I can't type, for when in the US, we're renting a car in New York and driving to Chicago via a whole bunch of places.
jamie peacock: And then the book, because someone got the book for their birthday, so I was looking it up. Yeah.
Curt: cool. hu
jamie peacock: yeah um Yeah, we're actually doing, a bought a whole bunch of chicken societies on
Curt: Sweet, dude.
jamie peacock: what's fucking society uh meat on a stick i don't know what don't know if society is the american word for it kebab that's the word well that's one of the words yeah yeah that is special so i bought 10 of those for the bra today so gonna be cooking a whole lot of cock and then uh bought a bunch of steak and a bunch of horse because why not um so i'm gonna have a have a feast later on but you know where can uh people
Curt: Oh, good.
Curt: Uh... Yeah, kebab, or... Yeah, um... I know you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Curt: Nice. Heh. Hmm.
Curt: Sorry, did you say horse?
jamie peacock: No. Vorse. ah Sausage.
Curt: Horse, okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, burr vorse.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Okay, that makes more sense.
jamie peacock: Probably got horse in it, but yeah.
Curt: i Probably, but whatever.
jamie peacock: um Yeah. It'll be tasty. So we'll make vorse rolls and yeah, and I bought a bunch of steak that I marinated last night. be delicious. ah Yeah. Where can people find you and your things?
Curt: You can find me and my things at confounded machine.com. When you're listening to this, probably this week, there'll be an email going out for the next lottery. Um, so yeah, stay tuned if you're into that.
Curt: And, uh, yeah, or it points to shirts. If you want to buy our dumb shirts or whatever else we sell in our store to help support this madness.
jamie peacock: There's more dumb shirts coming, by the way. There are more dumb shirts coming and they're going to be great.
Curt: And thank you.
Curt: Our Patreon list has actually grown pretty enormous now. um So that's super cool.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: i'm I'm super pleased that you guys are willing to part with a few bucks to fuel this shenanigans. ah I love talking to Jamie. It's a lot of fun and just kind of wild that people actually pay cash to listen to us ramble and say your name incorrectly on air.
jamie peacock: To listen to us talk shit.
Curt: So yeah, that's super cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it's a feature.
Curt: So thank you. Yeah. How about you? ah What can, where what are you up to or where can people find your wares and things?
jamie peacock: no
jamie peacock: You can find everything at jspeceng.com. If you're looking specifically for workholding stuff, check out tapsandpatients.com. um
Curt: Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
jamie peacock: which is freaking hilarious that people are typing that instead of nautical work holding to find my website. It's great. um But yeah, you can find links to everything at jspeckeng.com, the website, yeah both of our stores, and also the website for the podcast, which has the list of fame or the wall of fame and some bonus stuff every now and again.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: But yeah, there are new shirts on the way. Dedica is busy working with them. I think she's ordering sample prints of them on Monday so I can have the shirts. um And then they'll be live as well.
jamie peacock: But yeah, that's where you can find my things. What are you up to tomorrow, Kurt?
Curt: Tomorrow, I am going to do a bunch more slave yard work, or I just have to finish this. cause even actually I actually have to bolt it down, because if it gets all windy, it's going to marry Poppins away, and then I have to clean shit.
jamie peacock: Ah, yes.
Curt: Yeah, just play outside. Play outside and make my house look pretty so my neighbors don't think I steal Cadillac converters for a living or whatnot. How about you? What are you up to today?
jamie peacock: Lost.
Curt: Or tomorrow?
jamie peacock: Yeah, we're going to go walk the dogs.
Curt: Whatever
jamie peacock: good yeah Today, we're going to go do a 5K with the dogs. Then we're going have a bra with Danica's friend. I think I'm going pump Monica out because I have a drum to put the front coolant into. um Then I can get that moved over to the workshop on Monday.
jamie peacock: And then, yeah, take it easy. Probably do a bit of design work because I can't not. And then, yeah, just take it easy because it's a Sunday.
Curt: about.
jamie peacock: And then Monday is Handy Semen because i need to get those into Anno this week.
Curt: Nice.
Curt: I still love the name. I still love it.
jamie peacock: Oh, the name's the best. The name is the absolute fucking best. Like, I love it.
Curt: who
jamie peacock: um But yeah, we'll discuss some of that between the shows. But anyway, thank you everybody for listening. If you enjoyed the podcast and... I'm trying to remember the words. Yeah, if you enjoyed the podcast, you consider sharing it with someone you think who will enjoy it or won't. Rage Listens are listened to.
jamie peacock: um Also, if you are listening on YouTube, go ahead subscribe so we can stay ahead of Taps and Patience because currently we have more subscribers than them.
Curt: That's a good idea.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Yeah, do that.
jamie peacock: I know, I thought I'd be a savage. Yeah, we we currently have like a good amount more than them, but let's keep it going. But yeah, if you enjoyed it, please consider giving a rate, like, subscribe, all those fun things.
jamie peacock: And yeah, we'll see you guys next week.
Curt: Take care, all.
