Hi. This is the fourth time I’ve started this blog post. Squarespace keeps finding new and exciting ways to tell me I’m not logged in. Anyway, sorry about last week. T. had pink eye and it all became very apparent right after dinner last week so I was driving him around to see doctors and find pharmacies that would fill his prescription.

I’ve got motors moving! This is a chunk of fancy plywood I cut into a funky shape with a jigsaw spinning on the shaft of a 1A NEMA 17 stepper controlled via a Polulu Tic 36v4 stepper controller via a Raspberry Pi 0W.

The hardest part of all of this was probably finding the word “flange” which is the time of thing you want to connect a thing like the spinning piece of wood here to the stick that pokes out of a motor.

Also I did get into the studio and I made some progress on the painting.