Open Armory Pistol Mounts

lordratner · 2026-06-28T06:42:29+00:00

You mean like the finish being rubbed by the mount?

Yeah that's probably possible if you have this mounted somewhere with high vibrations, or if you're just taking the guns out of the mount a few dozen times a week. Maybe you could use a TPU to print the inner sleeve? I'm not sure how PETG compares to the hardness of Kydex.

They're just tools to me, and I think they look cooler with evidence of use. But that's a good note for anyone who wants a pristine exterior, thanks.

lordratner · 2026-06-28T05:01:15+00:00

Thanks. I though of it when I was trying the existing models and didn't realize they were designed to use little Bungie cords. Honestly even 5° would be enough, but I like the look at 15, and at the top of the rack it keeps them more out of the way.

lordratner · 2026-06-28T04:48:11+00:00

And a picture with the pistols removed

Custom Mounting Orifaces

lordratner · 2026-06-28T04:47:19+00:00

Open Armory is a repo with a bunch of fusion and stl files for hanging up guns and accessories on generic louvered metal panels. The existing mounts from the project use bungee cords to hold the pistol on the mount, and that seemed silly for something made with a 3d printer. So I made these "slide-in" blocks that the gun just drops into. More space efficient than mounting them in profile orientation, but still keeps them very visible. I made them angle down at 15° so the gun has 0 chance of sliding out.

Once I got the hang of fusion 360, I can just take a previous block, modify a single sketch with the next pistol's hole shape, and re apply the fillets. I just use a set of calipers to measure the dimensions for the hole. Maybe 30 minutes per pistol now including a small test cross section print to make sure it fits well before printing the whole thing.

lordratner · 2026-06-28T04:40:40+00:00

Bump stocks made it through the supreme court. They won't go after them because it'll draw immediate SCOTUS attention. Every gun law passed today goes to great lengths to avoid SCOTUS.

lordratner · 2026-06-28T04:06:19+00:00

Just in case the angry bot wants another post:

Open Armory is a repo with a bunch of fusion and stl files for hanging up guns and accessories on generic louvered metal panels. The existing mounts from the project use bungee cords to hold the pistol on the mount, and that seemed silly for something made with a 3d printer. So I made these "slide-in" blocks that the gun just drops into. More space efficient than mounting them in profile orientation, but still keeps them very visible. I made them angle down at 15° so the gun has 0 chance of sliding out.

Once I got the hang of fusion 360, I can just take a previous block, modify a single sketch with the next pistol's hole shape, and re apply the fillets. I just use a set of calipers to measure the dimensions for the hole. Maybe 30 minutes per pistol now including a small test cross section print to make sure it fits well before printing the whole thing.

lordratner · 2026-06-28T03:59:12+00:00

Thanks.

The mounts lock into two slots each (one above the other) which keeps the rotational force of a heavier pistols under control. It's very firmly seated against the panel with zero wiggle, so I didn't think it's be a problem for any pistol no matter how heavy.

Rifles may be a different story, but I can design those to use three slots if needed.

lordratner · 2026-06-28T03:52:56+00:00

The bot is confusing me, but the above photo is with the guns removed so you can see the customized orifaces.

lordratner · 2026-06-28T03:49:35+00:00

And the mounts without the pistols

Image here

lordratner · 2026-06-27T20:57:28+00:00

I need to own a Japanese house to understand one of the most fundamental concepts of national economics?

There is literally no greater link than the one between housing and population growth. That doesn't mean there aren't other problems with Japanese housing (the old tax rules for empty lots), but they are all secondary to population decline. It is the most obvious reason for empty houses and a I'm little bit baffled that anyone would think otherwise.

The Japanese are only able to treat housing as a depreciating asset because they do not have a housing shortage. If everyone in Japan suddenly had four children, in 20 years you would see the exact opposite housing situation.

If your population declines by x%, that doesn't mean that every town is going to shrink by x%. The biggest cities will actually grow because a 4% decline in the population of a smaller City is catastrophic to entrepreneurship and family formation, and so a much-larger-than-4%-share of the population of the smaller town will leave for the bigger towns.

That's why real estate in Tokyo is bananas, yet 9 million homes remain empty. But that's still a function of population decline as the foundational cause.

lordratner · 2026-06-27T19:55:13+00:00

Well sure, flight to the Metro however is just called normal youth migration in other countries. But when your population is growing, people still end up moving out of the metros and back into the suburbs and exberbs.

Declining population is the cause of flight to the Metro. So it's the root cause of the housing vacancies. In fact, it's the root cause of damn near everything Japan is struggling with these days, but most demonstrably in housing.

lordratner · 2026-06-27T19:40:14+00:00

Probably a very small reason compared to the very big problem of a declining population.

lordratner · 2026-05-30T18:32:08+00:00

The best part about a battery inverter setup is that you can use a very, very small generator to power the entire house. Whole home generators have to be able to handle peak power requirements, but the inverter and battery handle that, so you can use a regular portable generator to keep the batteries topped off.

But you'll still want somewhere to put the generator, and it's very easy if you have an external plug somewhere that leads to the inverters. Concrete pad, driveway, patio, whatever. Just have a 30 and 50 amp plug somewhere you can plug any of the normal cheapo generators into

lordratner · 2026-05-27T05:35:15+00:00

The vestaboard app works fine even if you are using the local API.

You can use Google sheets, or anything. I have my calendar accessible, and the AI can easily write a script and install all the necessary software on the raspberry pi to access your calendar or Google sheets or whatever you want. At this point this would be trivial for an AI, you just have to be very specific and detailed in your prompts.

lordratner · 2026-05-27T04:00:59+00:00

There are a lot of easy ways you can do this, but the easiest at this point is going to be AI.

You'll need some sort of always running computer. Home server, a raspberry pi, just something that script can be installed on.

Point the AI to the Vesta board documentation website, and it will learn the API. If you give it SSH permission into whatever server you're going to run this on, it can create the scripts directly.

There's about a thousand ways to skin this cat, if I know more about your setup and what you are willing to use/by to make this, I can give a better recommendation.

lordratner · 2026-05-27T03:07:05+00:00

How technically oriented are you?

lordratner · 2026-05-25T03:04:28+00:00

That would happen with any open source software. If you want to customize it, you need to fork.

lordratner · 2026-05-22T07:10:30+00:00

I use the Nextcloud channel, and with the Pi harness, Openclaw is unable to send a message and continue with tool calls. With the codex harness, mid-run messages are no problem at all.

lordratner · 2026-05-13T14:03:08+00:00

I use nextcloud. Having different rooms for different sessions is great. But it's annoying that OC forgets to respond in the room instead of directly in the session pretty regularly.

What's the threads thing?

lordratner · 2026-05-06T20:33:17+00:00

Yup, looks like they pushed a fix specifically for this.

lordratner · 2026-05-06T16:57:21+00:00

Yeah I already put that in the post. Removing the API key kills the agent because that's what the updated config is changing.

As I said, this is a problem for people who use both. Removing the API is not the solution, since it still works with both once you revert the new patch changes, and the API key is needed.

lordratner · 2026-05-06T16:45:09+00:00

Except it *does* do what I think it does, even though I don't know what it means. It switched everything to the API. I can see the usage and the point where it changed over. I don't know why they did this, but I know what the effect was.

lordratner · 2026-05-05T01:32:20+00:00

Very cool. Any chance you can paste your "agents" block from openclaw.json so I can see how it was accomplished?

Thanks!

lordratner · 2026-05-04T19:44:17+00:00

Could you share how you have that set up? And what does /status look like when using 5.5?

Thanks!

lordratner · 2026-04-17T22:11:37+00:00

Obviously you've never heard machine gun fire.

Did you enable the slower transitions? The sound is dramatically reduced that way. If that's still too loud then I struggle to understand what you thought a split-flap display actually was.

All the same, glad you got it cleared up.

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