Comments (1) Hey, again my friend Louis stated that he could not post comments on my blog!! What?
I had that thought the past day since I never go any comments on my site since the beginning. Also I get some good traffic, so that was weird!
It was simply a little check box in wordpress saying “must log in to comments”, I never saw that message since I am always log in on my laptop!
Now it should work, try it now!
I made a belt tensioner because I though it could solve problems. In my internship, I do a lot of Solidworks so I decided to pratice before going to HK.
It’s also much more fun doing my own parts then doing tutorials.
Oh I love Solidworks! I can’t believe I have been using Google Sketchup all that time, what a shame! All my friends where saying, try it, it’s easy! Yes it is easy!
I’ve use Charles technique to parallel a part on the mill. You place a perfectly rounded bar in the T slot of your table. Then take you part and touch that bar. It will be parallel with the table. (You like what I use for circular rod? yeah I know!)
Look at the bearing placement. The best way is the bottom picture. It is impossible for the aluminium bracket to pop out of the assembly since the lip of the bearing is holding everything. On the first picture, vibration could will make the bracket come out.
I bought that spring saying “Thats the ONE!”. I then brought it home and my dad start laughing at my spring saying it’s scrap. I didn’t believe him… Ok DAD your RIGHT, it’s a piece of crap, it’s loose and way to flimsy! I need to find a better one, aka Stiffer. I need to figure a way where I could screw to adjust the tension on the spring. Something that pulls on one end.
Since I wrote this post in august and took me time to post it, I was able to show this to a guy at work and he told me that it should not even be a spring. It should be adjustable rigid link. When I roll with my scooter, you can see the thing vibrate and follow every movement of the belt.
The thing is, I thought that having a belt tensioner would get tension on the belt without consuming more current. I can use the bolts that connects to the shaft to tight the belt and that will be very stiff . This also makes the motor consume so much more current then having a little loose on the belt corrected by a belt tensioner. I still have time to think about it.
<EDIT> After posting on facebook, my friend Louis Moreau said the same comment on the static pressure and not using a spring. Here is his drawing!
Thanks Louis!
Hello everyone! That one wheel motorcycle got pretty viral! Youtube video got 300 000 views in less then a month!
Want some chicken feet?
It has now been 2 weeks in HK! Holy smoke man, the first thing that slap me in the face was humidity! The temperature around here is more then 30° C (88F) . Temperature is not a problem, the humidity in HK is so fucking killing! It’s more then 85% to 95% of humidity!!!! I sweat all the time, my tshirt are soaking yet just walking to work. Just walking 200 meters get me more sweat then biking 10 km back in Québec. Sheesh! I have AC in my appartement room. It is ON 24/7! Has I write this, the humidity got a little bit better.
Oh yeah, were I live, it is really small!!! The size of a bathroom in North America… ok ok a big bathroom. I’ll post a video!
To get to my work, I walk 8 minutes, then take the MTR (Metro) for 15 min, then walk a other 5 minutes. I walk really fast, Chinese people don’t walk fast!! There freaking slow! The don’t walk straight either. They are everywhere and walk in your path every time. They don’t watch where they are walking, because they look at there iPhone4!!
Everything is pretty small here. Bulk stuff does not exist. I mean Oreo cookies don’t event come in “normal” package like I am use to, they come in packs of three and take like shit. They also have different thickness cream. But like 3 kind of cream thickness, I was confuse and could not understand so I got the “original”, yeah right.
OH I forgot the most cool thing ever, on the very first day in Hong Kong, I had supper with Mark Tilden!!!!! YEP the creator of BEAM robotics, in person! I was with Andrew Miller, (yes the guy who invented the Miller Solarengine), Sean Frawley ( Inventor of the WowWee FlyTech Dragonfly) and Mark Tilden. They where all at WowWee. It was great! I will be seen Mark again in October. Also Mr. Tilden told me no to trust your friend/co-worker when they tell you to eat “duck tongue”! LOL! I laugh… but it’s true, 1 week later we told me “hey Jerome, wanna taste Duck tongue?”! There is suppose to be a bone in the tongue!!!
I am sure I am missing many things I wanted to say. I also notice that I am tired all the time. I get to bed early. Jet lag was intense and I think it has wear off.
I have so many pictures, that chicken leg picture is nothing compare to the stuff I have taken! HAHAHA! I am having a blast here. It’s really a other universe! Everything is different. After a few day we show me this great place to buy food, it is call “Taste” and it very nice grocery with a lot of western stuff. Also the money currency is not easy when you start. Every seem expensive because 100$ HK is 13$ so I made a little spreadsheet in my wallet to calculate price.
Lesson learned:
Look at is smile on his face!
They are scammer, they want to steal your money. He start saying that you are going to be lucky man, you have this particular sign of this shit and that shit and you have to do this and that. He start writing stuff on a piece of paper and doing a really crappy magic trick. Then at the end he say but some money in here by pointing his wallet. I might try to get it on video. Also they are there like every week. Same spot, I see 3 of them wearing the same thing. One across the street and 2 on the same road. There are SO MANY of those people trying to sell shit to you! Watchs, shoes, dress, etc. Crazy!
I heard from a guy at work, when he was in main land China, there some kids that will grab your legs and won’t let go until you give money! The secret is to say “I’ll call the Police” in mandarin. It is 我要叫警察了 or “wǒ yào jiào jǐngchá le”. I am planning to go to China for work in the next few weeks.
Many more things to come, ever heard of Sham Shui Po?
Some people are getting back to school this September, I am going to my fourth internship in Hong Kong!!
I will work for a toy company in the R&D departement aka toy designer. I will also be doing some SolidWorks which I practice during the last few weeks. I really like SW!
I leave September 1 to Dec 17. It’s 4 months in a whole new world, a new universe. I will be posting pictures and videos of place I’ll go.
btw, I did no bring my scooter! Instead I’ll go to Hobbyking directly and build a other one! 
I just added the famous “share button” on every page. I guest it can be useful for easy sharing. When I installed the button, there is suppose to be a sort of drop down menu that pop out when you place your mouse over the button. It did not pop with Firefox, only with Chrome and IE. I tested again with a order Firefox and it worked. I realise that I have a firefox pluging call Adblock Plus (ABP) that stop that pop up! Here is a print screen of the mouse over effect.
If you have ABP installed ( look at the top right corner of your Firefox window, there is a red octagon with ABP in it) you simply need to tell the program that the share pop is ok to show. This is also in part of the spam list you selected with ABP.
I use the ABP subscriptions call “Fanboy’s List (English)”
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/fanboy-adblocklist-current-expanded.txt
If you have ABP and can not see the above mouse over effect, here is how you active it:
Click the little arrow next to the red ABP logo. Then click “Open blockable items.” This will pop up a menu at the bottom of the page. You can also just click on the logo directly and the list will appear at the bottom of the page.
You will see a link called “http://static.addtoany.com/menu/…“, you simply right click on it and click on “Disable filter…“. If you can not see, try to search “addtoany” and it might appear.
Reload the page “F5” and you will then see the share it pop menu appear.
Happy sharing!
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