Personal collective of ideas, thoughts and notes
Another 3D printed bottle holder for my Canyon Speedmax. This is a raised bottle holder for between your arms and mounts a traditional water bottle cage.
The typical distance between for the mount holes on cages are 64mm. 2 100mm M5 bolts keep the mount attached to a custom made carbon fiber base plate.
After reading about some aero gains from Crank covers, I decided to try and 3D print one to fit on my SRAM Rival crankset on my TT bike. The curves and irregular shape/profile of the crank made it difficult to model, so I printed a flat surface, and used heat to mold it to match the profile. It is held on via zip ties.
The design was done using Fusion 360 and a front and and side profile reference image. I printed this on a Prusa MKII.
This was one of my first prototypes. Due to the low melting point of PLA, a heat gun pretty quickly warms it sufficiently to get it to mold into the correct shape.
This was the final version.
EZGains testing results regarding covers and their benefit:
A friend of Rocky Branch Park (read: Legend) who has been a big advocate for trails in our area and helped fund and support the RBP expansion asked for some help while he was working on the Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden. They had recently expanded their trail system but didnt have any maps for the park. He reached out asking for assistance and I cam up with the maps below.
Its always great to visit these parks and places and see the small ways my volunteering has contributed and hopefully helped encourage more people to get outdoors 🙂
These maps ultimately start with a GIS terrain shaded map, and after doing some running/cycling, using the GPS tracks to align the tracks with the parks boundaries. Then meticulously going through each GPS track and plotting the vector graphics on top, and subsequently adding various features, callouts, legends or notes.
I am a huge fan of this underrated and probably under utilized feature of macOS Sonoma. Having the opportunity to glance at my widgets while I am on my Mac is really nice interaction pattern.
Being an app developer, friends, family and co-workers often ask the question, how much does an app cost? This is a nice breakdown from Couchbase on the elements, stages and how long each stage of the development lifecycle takes, which helps with cost estimates.
Had a fun time designing race car wraps for a friend of mine and their kids who race Quarter Midgets. Bringing something from a the digital space to physical is really enjoyable and rewarding.
Some graphics, wraps and stickers for the Carter family and their Awesomeness Racing Team
Fun post card sent out by the Carters at the end of the season.
Design: Adobe Illustrator
Print:
I have always enjoyed the concept of being immersed into a virtual world. One of my first experiences with VR was in roughly 1993 when our local arcade introduced a game from one of the OG gaming founders John Waldron called Dactyl Nightmare on a 1000CS. After that experience, I have always wanted to build a motion sim which gets you as close to reality as possible.
Last year I took the first steps and decided to put the initial blocks in place and start with sim platform that I could eventually add motion to. I purchased a Fanatic wheel base and thought it would be a great learning experience to build the steering wheel from scratch. Many of the components can be built versus bought which is what is keeping me motivated to eventually get the entire system together.
This weekends challenge, a better hook for a bicycle:
Want to laser cut one of your own or remix it? Check it out on Thingiverse
This is a vertical based bike hook for bicycles with aero (deep) front rims. Currently there are not many wheel hooks that keep the front wheel vertical and that don’t scratch the rim when putting the bike up.
The hook is lasercut using a glowforge and medium draft board (the material thickness is important as all the slots need to interlock). Assembly is slotting the parts together and installation requires two screws/anchors into the wall.
It was specifically designed for a Reynolds AR80, however, I believe other wheels with similar dimensions, depths or profiles should fit.
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