Today marks one year since Fringe Robotics started. It’s been a busy year, the vast majority of the time has been spent setting up everything from the paperwork to the cnc mill.

Besides a trip to Japan in Spring and a recent trip to Washington DC I have got the lab functionally up and running.

The cnc milling machine has been running beautifully:

The CNC mill, soon to never be this clean again.

For the hot days in August I picked up a 20L nitrogen Dewar (not pictured) and did liquid nitrogen day. We froze peaches and berries for later use in smoothies and I experimented with the nitrogen, submersing running motors and LED’s. I was thinking I would try milling otherwise difficult to machine materials while frozen, like rubber.

Some liquid science for liquid nitrogen day at Fringe Robotics. Seen here freezing some fresh peaches for smoothies later.

The latest project has been building shelves for the office:

Jig to hold the plates in alignment will being milled. Lots of aluminum cuttings.

Drill jig for lining up the holes, I used a steel plate for durability.

A dozen nice shiny brackets ready to be installed.

Here is what they look like all finished.

I could have just bought some cheap shelf brackets at wall mart but sometimes I like to do things the hard way and learn some new techniques.

So now with the lab up and running I can finally start on some new projects, fun stuff.

TTFN,

GrantM.