Efficiency
is important to me. Planning and
following logical steps is important to me.
I don’t
play many video games. I don’t own any
current video game consoles aside from a smart phone and the only game I
regularly play is Ingress. If you’ll play for my team I’ll gladly send
you an invite.
If
someone is going to throw edible meat away I will eat it because it’s wasteful
to discard good food but otherwise I don’t eat meat. Someone once told me that if 10% of Americans
gave up eating meat we could fill the food deficit of the world. It takes roughly 10lbs of grain to raise one
pound of meat so I can believe it. I’m
not going to campaign for vegetarianism but that’s what prompted me to give up
meat. I still eat fish.
I
write the date as YYYY-MM-DD because when it’s sorted by a computer it will
always align chronologically. Plus it’s
the ISO standard, which I’ve
mentioned before.
At work
I have a G13
macro keyboard which I bought myself in order to have drafting commands
instantly available rather than typing each time.
Enough
background.
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The jar had been emptied to allow the cork to
dry since it seemed to be deteriorating in the tap water. The cork may need to be coating in
polyurethane. The jar and contents were
allowed to dry overnight.
Cork making murky water
The O-rings
were put back into the jar in order to gauge the height where the whisker will
go. The height was marked with a permanent
marker. The plastic seemed brittle so
drilling was a poor option. A heated
soldering iron was used to make the hole by pressing the hot tip through the
marked location. The edges of the hole
were bulged and smoothed with a flush cutting tool.
Dry O-rings for marking height of whisker
Height of mark
Making hole with soldering iron
Hole made with soldering iron
The metal going from the inside to the outside
is a titanium piercing earring identical to one used in a previous ESPeri.Impass
prototype.
Masking tape and titanium piercing earring
The hole was meant to be sealed with silicone
caulk. To keep the silicone on the
inside of the jar from flowing into unwanted place a piece of masking tape was
chosen which will adhere to the inside of the jar and provide a barrier. The tape was slit with the intention of
peeling back the tape one flap at a time rather than tearing it and possibly dislodging
the silicone or whisker.
Tape with slit
Piercing lodged in the slitted tape
The piercing rests at the top of the slit with
the tape surrounding it. It was inserted
into the jar so the sticky side of the tape was against the jar and the
piercing post came through the hole.
Piercing tape in place
Jar and silicone
100% silicone sealant, also used on the previous prototype, was applied to the hole in the jar so as to surround the piercing post. It has been set to dry overnight.
Applying silicone to hole in jar
Spring loaded tweezers holding the jar to dry overnight
To do:
- Coat cork in polyurethane
- Test + evaluate
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