Setting up the workshop

Sebastian Stefan Schütz/ October 30, 2022/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

Introduction One perk of living in the countryside is that you normally have a lot of space available. By moving to my mothers childhood home (an old farm) we now also have this luxary and decided to reporpuse the garage as a workshop. Up till now it fulfiled this job somewhat, there were pretty solid workbenches with nice hight adjustable

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Restauration of an Deutz D4006

Sebastian Stefan Schütz/ September 23, 2022/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

This might be a bit of an odd project for the quarantine time, but we did some restauration work on an old Deutz D4006 tractor. Living on an old farm has it perks (like a lot of space for machines and a workshop) and sometimes brings other advantages with it, like having a tractor. But, this good machine is from

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DIY Powerfull 2×72″ Belt Grinder

Stefan Schütz/ July 31, 2022/ Machines/ 0 comments

Introduction I love making knifes. It is passion, which started by cutting them from old saw blades and sharpening them on a simple grinding machine, but ultimately let me to build the 2×72 inch beltgrinder, shown in this post. It all started with me having to do a compulsory internship before being allowd to start studying aerospace engineering. And with

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Open source large format CNC-machine and 3D-printer

Sebastian Stefan Schütz/ July 10, 2022/ CNC/ 0 comments

1. Introduction On our school “Birklehof” in Germany, we were offered the possibility to submit a project to the program “Micro-Maro-Mint” of the “Baden-Württemberg-Stiftung” (Baden-Wuerttemberg-Foundation). The “Micro-Macro-Mint”-program supports students interested in mathematics, informatic or engineering with up to 2500€ for their projects. After submitting our application with a first 3D-Model and a Bill of material, we got the funding. Our

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Using C# for better grades in art class

Sebastian Schütz/ July 10, 2022/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

Intro A long long time ago, when I was still at school… I was and still am terrible at drawing and painting. Those two always gave me a hard time back in art class, but somehow I always managed to deliver acceptable results. But then my personal nightmare arrived: our art teacher wanted us to draw one face, showing different

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ISEL EP 1090 – Operation: Brain Swap

Sebastian Stefan Schütz/ June 20, 2022/ CNC/ 24 comments

The Situation at hand For quite some time now, we had an ISEL EP1090 standing at home, unused. Having a CNC-machine this close opens many possibilities, but in the current state of the machine, it ́s possibilities were limited, due to: It is just 2.5D (Not bad, but real 3D would have been nice) Acceleration and deceleration were catastrophic. Although

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