Lockdown Fever Antidotes

I found myself looking for more LEGO Technics motorcycles to build the other day. I only found one - a Harley. As if life wasn't cruel enough already.

 

I’ve built a trainset in between the times I’m supposed to be working

My daughters love it - not

 

I started watching Youtube videos about the guns you see in cowboy films, and war films.

 

Funny, I was looking on their site before Christmas too for the same reason.

I was thinking of getting the kit for the King Tiger tank that I always wanted as a kid but never got.

So are you going wheels up or wheels down?

My own ways of killing time when the garage is too cold are:
Duolingo - improving my French for when I can go over to Belgium to watch the racing again
&
Learning to play the piano - which being old and deaf is unlikely to lead to an exciting new career and lots of groupies, but is keeping me busy as I've never learnt to read music before and have no ability at any other instrument!

DS

 

Always play guitar more this time of year anyway, but really spending a lot of my time at it currently! Not supposed to be out with the camera either in this stricter lockdown so lots of guitaring... and even a picture of said guitar

 

The airfix model sounds cool. I made loads when I was young... then I got a bb gun, and I shot them all to bits

 

Unfortuntely, eating and drinking, to excess

 

Last year I've put my hands in 3D printer world.
I've now passed the step to a small CNC machine for engraving, and laser.
The objective is to get enough knowledge to build from scratch (and from chinese parts ) a bigger CNC, able to carve a guitar body or a guitar neck for example.

 

I help you with home recording, you help me with cnc That's a good deal?

 

No CNC machines or musical instruments for me. Have decided to do the NC 500 in September so learning to speak Scottish and practicing my introduction speech for when we get to Scotland, in case Nicola is manning the border by then. Watching a lot of Jimmy Krankie videos and just aboot got the hang of it noo .

 

I was joking. I've an heavy programmer background. Started to work on IBM 36 machines, where floppy disc had the size of an LP vinyl.
I don't program anymore for a living, but can nail the logic.
It's now fun to dig in open source material on the web.
CNC has grbl open source that works well enough for an hobbyist like me.
Made some arduino stuff, like a smart xlr/jack cable tester.
We are living in a very exiting period for tech hobbyist. Lots of open source stuff available, very affordable gears and parts.

 

Very interesting! I program and operate wood cutting cnc machines as my day job

 

It's sort of like a large airfix kit except you start with a complete bike and disassemble in lockdown....

Got the tricky bit next, putting it all back together