BRIIZER - Finishing off

When done will pack carefully for the long trip and post to Orange County LA, California on Monday morning.

Battery clamps are fashioned from thin MDF and the Teflon nut with washer provides the right clamping height.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BRIIZER batman wall light 2

Did some more work on BRIIZER.

This is the 'hybrid bat' that uses USB RGB LED strip lights (from Kmart) powered with dual battery packs.

Just finished wiring the battery packs to the USB lights.

Facebook Pages Manager

Having difficulty getting to Al's Workshop from my Facebook page and until now have just been searching for it which is primitive to say the least. Rather coincidental that Facebook popped up a suggestion to install pages manager- nice.

 

Ballerinas - posting to Ballarat

Ballerina night lights have been packed and posted to Ballarat.

Ballerina night lights

Ballerina night lights have been packed and posted to Ballarat.

Workshop updates

Some items lined up for spray painting so let's get that done while we have the sunshine.

Android TV and Kodi

Tonight's movie recommendation from a friend is to watch Bad Education (Hugh Jackman) on Foxtel Movies. I have Foxtel Now but not the movies but that's not a problem we just used the Kodi Tempest add-on to download the movie in a few minutes.

SASHA ready to post

Another bat ready for posting tomorrow so that can go down to the dispatch area for packing

BlitzWolf Smart Watch - In transit

The BlitzWolf BW-HL2 Smart Watch from Bang Good is slowly making it's way here - hurry up.

Al's Workshop updates

Went out to the workshop about 10.00am this morning and temperature was 8° !!!, yesterday morning was 11° - heaters on again.

Priority is to finish off NANI cos the customer is keen to pick-up and as posted TAJ was picked up yesterday and paid for .

Bloody cold...brrr.

Meadowbrook Mansion - morning deliveries

VAN - Scroll saw blades.

POST - Kmart heated throw rugs x 2

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Al's Workshop - various updates

The ballerina is finished, the bottom 'floor lighting' has it's own ON-OFF switch.

SCARLETT ballerina Part 5

In the last session we installed LED strip B in the bottom of the frame.

I came back later and installed the LED rice copper string lights onto the back of Scarlett with hot glue.

I did not take photos of that as there are plenty of examples with all the night lights I have posted. 

We can now proceed with wiring the lights.

SCARLETT ballerina Part 4

This silhouette light features two sets of LED lights.

The usual silhouette object backlighting (A) as well as bottom edge picture lighting (B)

• When the battery pack switch is turned on A will light.
• When the slide switch at the back is turned on B will light.
• When the battery pack switch is turned off both A & B will turn off.

Here I am soldering fine insulated wires to one end of the B strip. 

Hilda Mini Drill - storage box

Found a nice tin box.

Hilda Mini Drill–Unpacking

This thing is going to be very useful.

First off put the drill on charge.

Posting SASHA and F&TV bonus gift.

Packing and posting the SASHA batman and the bonus Film & TV picture light to Warragul.

First time doing this particular combo - we have to pack 1 x Batman and 1 x Night Light so I got a couple of A3 packing boxes @ $3.64 from Officeworks.

Hilda Mini Drill

Delivered this morning and dropped into my post/parcel drop tray

For my purposes this is primarily a 3 speed mini drill that comes with 10 brass collets and a set of drill bits plus the usual rotary tool accessories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bat lights fourth lot (part 4)

This is the last of the current bat orders (Phew!) and will be released in the direction of Orange County LA, California - a long flight.

Homemade 8" band saw - blade change

The blade that I'm changing has done a lot or work so no complaints about the quality of AYAO band saw blades.

Film & TV night light - part 3

Made the back frame and sprayed it black so here we can assemble the the back with the internal frame with the photo print sandwiched between the two. Also mounted the camera.

Aligned the photo print and punched through the screw holes with a nail.

Film & TV night light - part 2

Wiring the film camera using tiny string Rice LED's.

SASHA (part 2)

Back home from shopping and out to do some more on SASHA.

Finished running the LED strip and cut a slot for the RF controller. The LED strip on edge is 9mm and the controller on edge is about 12mm so we will have to cut a slot in the actual back panel.

Film & TV night light–part 1

This is a bonus gift for a good bat customer.

This is the mockup done in MS Word.  

Holly update – improvement

Without assistance was able to stand up and come off her bed yesterday morning and this morning. Then off for the usual backyard inspection and take care of business



She will be 14 next month. Here we are heading back inside after toilet business and letting the chooks out of the run.

Holly update–Boronia vet

Just back from Boronia vet where she had a 'carpark consultation' with Doctor Tony. A six year relationship which started when he did her first ACL at 8 and the other at 12. He gave her back end a check over with assorted manipulations and with no complaints from Holly (never does very stoic) gave up and finished with cortisone injection - old age is a bugger.

RE: ALDI reminder to grab a heated rug

 

Further to this ordered two from Kmart @ same price of $35

The post drop tray is working

The post drop tray is working, and so is the postal system. Ordered two printer ink sets from IQ Technology on Friday - arrived today

Holly struggling to stand

Holly this morning not able to make the short distance from her bed to front door - needed assistance. Booked her in this morning for vet visit tomorrow. It was only last week she had her monthly Pentosan injection

His Dark Materials

Watching Episode 7 now...phew...check it out

Mothers gift for ET

Forgot all about the heated throw blanket yesterday at ALDI so went this afternoon to three stores – none! Looks like they never had them in store.

ET’s hearing is poor; she does have premium hearing aids but doesn't wear them at home.

The ulterior motive behind this purchase is that have to up with a very TV volume!

 

 

 

Mothers Day 2020

This photo from yesterday when we visited the folks at Springvale cemetery where ET did her usual thing with four bunches of flowers for both our mums.

Sadly the cemetery is being over run by Asians

To give you some idea I call this ‘Row 1992’; people put to rest Circa 1990.
From here on to the right there are no English letters or numbers to be seen!

BlitzWolf BW-HL2 smart watch - 2

As posted I am mainly interested in the notifications side of things, in particular promptly responding to enquires from Al's Workshop or Markeplace. Feeling a bit more comfortable now that I found a review that reports on this in more detail.

Serengeti Giraffe on Marketplace

Just posted this on Marketplace.

Pending · Serengeti Giraffe silhouette wall light
$60 · Melbourne, Victoria
Mark as Sold

Al's Workshop - Serengeti Giraffe wall light mounted in A3 photo frame with background photo print. Giraffe or other animal of choice is cut from MDF timber with LED silhouette back lighting, battery operation. Pickup 3150 or pay postage.
More info: https://www.facebook.com/AlsWorkshop

Kanopy–movie streaming

Get free access to thousands of movies with your library card.

Great for pensioners on a budget who don’t have any subscription streaming service.

No library card just sing-up with your local (or nearest) participating library and then do the same again at https://wml.kanopy.com/ or click on the picture.

BlitzWolf® BW-HL2 smart watch - 1

Just purchased this off BangGood.

This is mainly for Al’s Workshop – why it that?

I need to watch out for and promptly respond to my customers so came up with idea of a smart watch in particular for the notifications and messaging features. I will now be able to move around freely and stay in touch; providing of course I stay within Bluetooth range of the phone.

Stay tuned…

CANON PIXMA iX6860 A3+ Home Office Printer–setup

Unboxed and setup the printer downstairs in my study. The CD install is very straightforward; opted for LAN connection and at one point prompted to press one of the two buttons and count 11 flashes and release - LAN setup complete.

Using Holly's entry foyer IP camera to monitor the printing progress.

Todays ‘essential’ shopping trip

Carefully planned the round trip:

• Picked up the Canon A3 printer from Scorptec
• KFC for lunch
• Bunnings for MDF and paint primer
• Dropped off ET’s chicken soup to a isolated old person (doing our bit)
• Finally OfficeWorks for A3 copy and photo paper, spray on adhesive and Powerbank for the new 'limited edition' Batman wall light

Then home.





I'll go down later to my study and setup the new printer - right there in that spot.

Tickled pink that it even has a LAN connection and…the Telstra Smart Modem has one vacant port left. Will also run USB to the study Windows 10 desktop PC.

Batman Hybrid version (part 1)

Several months of R&D culminates here with this bat by the name of SASHA. We are switching from IR controller powered by 3 X AA battery pack (plus dummy battery pack on the other side to balance the light) to USB RF controller powered by dual 2 x AA battery packs – no line of sight issues.

Last week I did some testing and measuring in particular current consumption off power supply (simulating 5V USB power) and on batteries. I am comfortable that dual 2 x AA battery boxes will provide good battery life.

Al's Workshop updates

Technology purchase-

After a lengthy period of mulling decided to get this A3 printer for printing cutting templates and photo print backgrounds for photo frames plus other nifty stuff.

I will now of course be able to offer larger silhouette night lights and bigger bats and not have to stitch together A4 pages or fool around with fiddly poster print settings.

Holly to vet–monthly check-up

Waiting at Boronia vet with Holly – in the car park

We had a long wait like one hour – not to worry.

Holly turned 14 in June this year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Her last ‘normal’ visit before COVID car park consultations

SCARLETT ballerina Part 3

From the last session we prepared Scarlett for cutting out on the scroll saw.

Here she is placed on the background, looks OK so let's give her a mat black spray paint.

Happy bat customer.