Planning to print your own enclosure for esk8? Worrying about joints and general 3d printing finishing? Here are some ideas for you. Why it’s a good thing? Like in…
Continue ReadingEngineer and a mathematician standing at the beginning of a long hallway, on the other side is their significant other/love of their lives. They can advance in turns, but there’s…
Continue ReadingAren’t you sick of rectangular examples? I know I’m. Dealing with simple decks which have rectangular cross section makes perfect sense. And it’s simple – ideal to understand the…
Continue ReadingYou can 3d print your parts and use them safely in the real world. Just check the loads and design with the failure stress in mind, adjusted for a proper…
Continue ReadingBending stresses or direct forces – what kills you faster? I’ve mentioned this in the previous post, also there’s this safety factor thing. Let’s see what it’s all about.…
Continue ReadingStarting with rectangular beam in stresses is like writing “hello world” in coding. You’ve got your loads, now what? It’s time to finish your design! A life fact…
Continue ReadingImagine your esk8 floating in the air with arrows poking at it. Weird, but it’s exactly what’s needed to calculate the loads. Make sure to catch the full picture,…
Continue ReadingIt was my first. One moment I’m on the board, cruising through the campus, the other moment I’m on the ground, the board is upside down, and someone brings my…
Continue ReadingDon’t you love discovering the bugs in the stuff you make? It reminds us the complexity and the challenge in product development, and the fact that perfect never exists. The…
Continue ReadingThis post is about doing the conversion – taking the mini and making it thumb controlled. The .stl files are available here. I introduced the idea last time.…
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