Making stuff in Wellington
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Making stuff in Wellington
Hey everyone, I just moved to Wellington and was thinking it'd be cool to catch up with people who make stuff here. When I was in Dunedin I was pretty keen on starting a space for pcb machine assembly, CNC cases, Painting, screen printing etc. basically to make small manufacturing runs and prototyping affordable with a shared setup, with some workshops/classes to tech how to run machines or procedures for anyone interested.
It might not be something that'd work for a lot of reasons.. but it would be interesting to hear any thoughts!
Btw I'm aware there is the Fablab here, but I figured this might be more commercial.
It might not be something that'd work for a lot of reasons.. but it would be interesting to hear any thoughts!
Btw I'm aware there is the Fablab here, but I figured this might be more commercial.
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Re: Making stuff in Wellington
I’m interested, for sure.
Wanted to get CNC routing for my pedal cases so I could make things more modular, like having the IO side of things its own component but I’d need precision drilling for that.
Wanted to get CNC routing for my pedal cases so I could make things more modular, like having the IO side of things its own component but I’d need precision drilling for that.
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Re: Making stuff in Wellington
Your stuff looks awesome! I've been getting cases from Disaster Area in the States. It's quite expensive for shipping and only really worth it for 100pcs or so, but had the advantage of a one-stop shop.. although it had months of back and forth and a few mix ups. I tried pricing what it would be in Dunedin for an engineering workshop to do machining (I have fader slots) and a powdercoater do the rest. Eye watering, even compared with having things transported around the planet..
Also keen on making development more modular. The latest version of Eagle has a cool building block feature but I haven't dug into it yet. It could be added to as a collective. I spent a fair bit of time last year making MOSFET protection modules that can be dropped in as single discrete parts to add overvoltage protection and polarity correction. Might be useful to other builders just to drop them into their main schematic before making a PCB or creating board templates for different case sizes.
Also keen on making development more modular. The latest version of Eagle has a cool building block feature but I haven't dug into it yet. It could be added to as a collective. I spent a fair bit of time last year making MOSFET protection modules that can be dropped in as single discrete parts to add overvoltage protection and polarity correction. Might be useful to other builders just to drop them into their main schematic before making a PCB or creating board templates for different case sizes.
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Re: Making stuff in Wellington
wish you were setting up up here, all sounds exciting, though I exist in one off realm, am getting closer and closer to board fabbing for the stuff I like. been getting pretty lazy recently and building readymade pcbs.
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Whatever saves the most time! I've gone back to the breadboard recently after sorting out all my stuff in www.partsbox.io
Hadn't been organised enough to do it efficiently for several years and just went straight to fab PCB prototypes and cut traces to mod out errors
It's been awesome just to see stuff happen on the fly again. Also can recommend https://www.falstad.com/circuit/ - Handy for mucking around before breadboarding Opamp and FET circuits.
Hadn't been organised enough to do it efficiently for several years and just went straight to fab PCB prototypes and cut traces to mod out errors
It's been awesome just to see stuff happen on the fly again. Also can recommend https://www.falstad.com/circuit/ - Handy for mucking around before breadboarding Opamp and FET circuits.
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Congrats on your progress . Very cool
Watching your pedals find fame around the world
Watching your pedals find fame around the world
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thanks for the tip on parts box, could be easier in some ways to my spreadsheets of parts, remote access is nice. i'll have a play
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If I ever get my pedal ideas built in going to 3d print the enclosures so they can be really interesting, did that for my boss katana switcher and it turned out great!
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jeremyb wrote:If I ever get my pedal ideas built in going to 3d print the enclosures so they can be really interesting, did that for my boss katana switcher and it turned out great!
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Re: Making stuff in Wellington
to be fair, that should have a big butt plug that vibrates built into it. Just for JB
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
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There's not a pedalboard big enough to hold one that will actually touch the sides!!
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We can rebuild it. It may cost 6 million dollars....jeremyb wrote:There's not a pedalboard big enough to hold one that will actually touch the sides!!
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.