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Steve Ganly
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== Background ==
* Self taught 6502 assembler on a vic20 aged 12 in 1980 (yep - one of those...), had a few games released in the 1980's micro boom on the Commodore 64
* BSc degree in Computer Science graduating in 1990
* Founded an IT consultancy and grew it to 44 people servicing merchant banks setting up and maintaining large networks of Unix systems
* Long time Perl Hacker, been working with Ruby on Rails since about 2007
== Skills ==
* Learned basic wood and metalworking as a child, did O'Levels in Technical Drawing and something called Modular Technology
* Last 5 years re-examining things from the ground up - doing some fine woodworking and accurate metalwork on lathes and mills
* Big time automation fan - CNC using Mach3
== Goals ==
* Get a deeper understanding of electronics - I'm still not happy with my mental model of semiconductors at the molecular level and that bothers me
* Improve the CNC facilities of the Hackspace
* Welding - have done arc welding but not mig. Want to try welding aluminium and also learn brazing.
* Want to learn about the care and feeding of liquid nitrogen
* Want to learn more about resin casting
* Want to try powder coating to finish parts
* Want to try anodising aluminium to finish parts
* Learn to work with glass - like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-84Sdq7jaE
== Project plans and speculative ideas ==
* Do some [[Dust Extraction Experiments]], hopefully ending in one or more useable dust collectors/separators
* Build a bunch of CNC machines for the Hackspace
  * Practise bot - to learn about gcode, movement, how to crash, how to fix
  * medium accuracy A4 size mill - for pretty accurate wood and plastic
  * mini mill CNC converstion - for metals. As accurate as the base mill
  * super accurate mill - for isolation routing of fine PCB, for making moulds for fine pitch resin cast gears and similar parts. Fairly small - less than A4 size
  * medium size plasma cutter - for Steel plate and various stock up to 20mm (depends on the plasma torch). Bed about 1m square - like this used by Keith Fenner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IUYJ7Sj8PE
  * large full size sheet mill - able to cut 1400 x 2400 sheet goods. 1/2" router based plus dedicated dust collection
  * various 4th axis devices - rotary tables, etc.
* Build a decent aquaponics system
* Solar powered lawn munching swarm of robots
* Scratch built radio controlled hovercraft
* Make some ferrofluid for the space and do some films of it's properties
* Make a 1D sliding saw tool
* Make a 2D sliding router tool (guides like CNC but manually set)
* Experiments with router height adjustment mechanisms
* Maybe make a wooden bandsaw like Mathias Wandel's
* Test making different gear types in the space, do some how-to videos for the available tool chains
* Learn about welding and brazing
* Try out some metal casting - Aluminium and maybe brass
* Build a chalk drawing robot
* Do some experiments with quadcopters and tricopters
* Wind powered compost assist
* Horizontal router table, like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=QqCIZVEuH-A
* Make some wooden tools - like these
  * wooden bar clamps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnUPXr43Ad4
  * deep wooden c clamp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhqKVvZTdtc
  * wooden edge clamps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdJnF4do3f8
  * Luthier clamps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVhkt3imxbM
  * 1" belt sander: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kU2veNhyKI
* Make a disc sander: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ao1UwIYQCg
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