It took about two months to let the fresh bamboo we cut from our land dry out (held in a curved shape) and be ready to use as the stringers and gunwales. But the stringers have been tied up and two layers of fiberglass skin added, and it’s time to try the boat out in…
The Owl: Tied the stringers and added the skin
After we let the bamboo dry for 2 months, we started to tie the bamboo stringers and gunwhale with the main structure. Started tying from the center point of the center stringer, then cut each end of the stringer to the proper length and tied both ends. Tied a bowline knot to the hole on…
MuH: Completed MuH frame
Finally, we finished the MuH frame. Frame collapsed (1.8 m wide, 2.6 m length, 1.5 m height approx.) First step, expand the back part. Raise up the Roof, then pull the shelf out from each side. After expand, we will get 1.8×3.6×2 m space inside + 2 of shelves (0.4x2x0.5 m each). Top of the…
MuH: Assembly back frames
We continue on the back-top and back-bottom frames. Back-bottom frame made from steel. Back-top frame made from aluminium. These two frames attached to front part via heavy load support linear guide rails. Collapsed MuH. Top part lifted. Back part pulled out.
The Owl: Gluing
We have glued all of the frame parts today. One fun modification we will try is to use bamboo freshly cut from our land for the stringers and gunwales. (After drying and treating for termites.) bending and drying bamboo for gunwhales.
Maslow CNC: Refine calibration parameters
We found the problem on the calibration of our Maslow CNC when running some test cuts. While cutting horizontal lines, it curves down about 1-2 cm in the center, even when we set the correct measured distances for the CNC in the “groundcontrol.ini”file. Horizontal straight line curved down. This really isn’t a surprise. We’ve done…
The Owl: Cutting the frame for a skin-on-frame boat build
We have gotten interested in boating, everything from canal boats on the canals by our home to sailboats to row boats. So we thought “why not try our hands at building a boat?” We found an open boat design from Hermit Cove Boats bases on a skin-on-frame technique. It includes the plywood layouts in a…
Maslow CNC: First assembly and test made the chair
We found an opensource DIY Maslow CNC kit sold from this website. This CNC is made for cutting on an 8’x4′ sheet of any material (although probably usually plywood). We made some changes to the frame switching from wood to square steel pipe to made it durable since we have designed it to be outdoors….
MuH: Misalignment of trailer frame
We found something strange while moving the top frame of the Mobile Micro House (MuH) up and down. The left-rear vertical pole of the trailer wasn’t parallel with the top frame that we built. It turns out the shop that welded the bottom trailer frame wasn’t too precise with their alignment. So we will have…