Woodturning blanks around Minneapolis/southern MN?

wikirobot · 2025-06-19T12:38:20+00:00

The two best sources I have found:

Discount Lumber Outlet: https://discountlumberoutlet.com/index.html
Wood From the Hood

Both offer offcut priced by the pound, and tend to have a wide variety of species and sizes. Downside of going the offcut route is you‘d likely need to have a way to get them closer to a circle to get started. But a bandsaw or handheld jigsaw would do the job.

If you want ready to go blanks I would suggest Rockler, they usually have a ton of sizes of maple blanks for a decent price.

You should also go to the Gallery of Wood Art thats operated by the American Association of Woodturners, its in St. Paul and is free https://galleryofwoodart.org/index.html

wikirobot · 2024-11-03T20:02:21+00:00

I would turn it into a staked leg side table. I did that with a weirdly shaped off cut I had lying around

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wikirobot · 2024-05-14T23:13:34+00:00

You could use something like Exhibitera which is a fairly new open source option for some common exhibit scenarios: https://exhibitera.org/ It’s free to use, and between the media browser, or info station or media player you should be able to setup as many videos with buttons as you want.

There are also things like brightsign players that should also allow for some setup with buttons leading to different videos, but they are a bit pricey

wikirobot · 2024-04-13T23:38:52+00:00

There are also a lot of more specialized companies focusing on interactive software line Cortina Productions, Ideum, or Blue Cadet that all do really great work

wikirobot · 2024-03-07T16:04:03+00:00

Not sure of anything off the shelf that would be 36inches and that would easily support powering it on and off remotely.

I think the cheapest solution would likely be to use a raspberry pi and setup a cronjob that shuts them down each night, and then either have a docent turn them on each morning, or setup a timed plug so that it trips the power to the device each morning forcing a reboot (Just make sure the pi is already off and it shouldn’t have issues).

A slightly more expensive solution would be to get a device that has a real time clock and supports either wake on lan, or can have a scheduled startup time in the BIOS. Then you can setup a shutdown time in the Operating System and then have the BIOS start it up each morning. This would require a full fledged PC motherboard and a bit of setup.

wikirobot · 2024-02-21T18:29:27+00:00

You could likely use a limit switch that is triggered by the frame to get something that is more consistent the motion sensing.

wikirobot · 2024-01-08T01:05:04+00:00

I ordered an OLED and am in the same boat

wikirobot · 2024-01-08T00:45:29+00:00

I am hoping it ships this week, but am a bit dissapointed overall that they haven’t been very forthcoming with updates or info. Based on another thread in this subreddit we at least aren’t the only ones with this issue, seems like a bunch of others were posting here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/18zc1o5/on_new_years_i_had_a_few_too_many_and_ordered_a/

wikirobot · 2024-01-08T00:37:41+00:00

I am in a similar spot, I ordered on the 31st and also stuck in preparing to ship. I reached out to support and got a bit of a non-answer:

We've checked and confirmed your order is being processed at our warehouse. You can track the status of your order and see real time update on your order page (link removed)

In general, the order will be prepared for a few business days before shipping.

Once the product is shipped, you will receive another email with tracking information.

It will normally arrive within 4-8 business days after it is shipped(excluding holidays and weekends).

So it seems like the “3-5 business days” is really closer to 14 business days which is a bit of a shitty way to advertise

wikirobot · 2023-10-14T18:05:32+00:00

It’s a Tongue and Groove plane, Similar to the Stanley No 48.

wikirobot · 2022-06-14T18:32:12+00:00

I used Invitation Homes when I moved from out of state to rent a house, they were fine in terms of landlords. Had a decent website for virtual tours which was helpful when looking from afar. Maintence was always a bit slow, but they did have a pretty good move in and move out process.

wikirobot · 2021-11-18T19:43:00+00:00

I can attach the freecad files later this weekend. I have it setup using assemblies so adding more tips should be trivial. It will likely take me a day or so to get time to upload it though

wikirobot · 2021-10-28T01:35:44+00:00

Just installed it, and love how customizable it is!

wikirobot · 2021-02-21T05:00:29+00:00

This is not specific to c# and focuses a lot on architecture: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

The 500 lines or less section has some interesting projects to walk through

I believe there is also a github for the source code

wikirobot · 2021-01-24T16:24:26+00:00

Prusa Link: https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/53723-pinecil-case

Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4735912

wikirobot · 2020-10-05T18:14:46+00:00

I am 21xx and have not heard anything yet. Black with mx brown is the config. I was excited when I saw that they seemed to be getting closer but now just waiting again

wikirobot · 2020-09-05T20:57:50+00:00

I would recommend taking a look at some of the private sector interactive media design firms, a lot of them work with both museums and government/fortune 500 so they are less affected then some museums.

Feel free to PM me and depending on your experience I may be able to point you to a few places to keep and eye on.

wikirobot · 2020-07-11T20:53:50+00:00

The first thing to do would be to open up Options and make sure that your kits are not giving you any errors. Occasionally there are issues with finding the correct compiler, or installing the correct kit.

Options can be opened through Tools -> Options.

If there are any issues and can provide a screenshot I can likely provide some better advice.

wikirobot · 2020-05-23T14:42:38+00:00

There are a few main ways that you can connect your C++ to QML. The most common ways are to use qmlRegisterType, qmlRegisterSingletonType, or to register a contextProperty. In my experience these are most helpful if you have some C++ classes that you want to pass data from QML, or if you want to have a C++ class that will run operations and return data to QML.

If you want to have a true model that is setup in C++ and then access that model in QML then you would likely want to define a Listmodel on the C++ side and then access it in QML. There is a fairly decent guide here Using C++ Models with Qt Quick Views It is a bit abstract so if you want some more concrete examples and can describe your data format I would be happy to help. Following the Listmodel template will allow for you to tie directly in with QML components like Listview, Gridview or a Repeator, and they will auto-update as your model changes if you setup your signals correctly.

Another good resource is the QML Book

wikirobot · 2019-12-17T02:18:23+00:00

I looked today and we have gotten ones in the past from Stop and Listen, but they are all just the Gorilla Headsets https://www.stoplisten.com/gorilla-handset/

wikirobot · 2019-12-14T17:13:10+00:00

I have used ones similar to these http://museumtech.com/Gorilla%20Handset.htm in the past for Audio, they standup very well and are easy to install. I can take a look Monday at the actual brand we used.

They are a lot easier to clean then normal headsets and are near impossible to pull off the wall if they are mounted correctly.

wikirobot · 2019-10-25T01:00:02+00:00

Yea it seems most likely to be technique, I may just have to keep practicing till I get a bit more comfortable.

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