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3D-printed OPEN/ CLOSED sign アトリエ看板作成

アトリエのオープンに近づいています！看板もできているし、インテリアのリフォームはあとちょっとですので、今回OPEN・CLOSEDの看板も作りたかったです。3Dプリントのアトリエになりますので、もちろん3Dプリンターで作成したいです！

The 3D print studio workshop is almost ready to open to the public now, since there's only a few little bits left to finish downstairs, so it seems like a good time to make an OPEN/CLOSED sign for the shop! Of course, since this will be a studio to display some cool 3D-printed objects, it seems only right to make the open/closed sign out of 3D-printed parts too!

▲ 見て目は普通でしょう？ただし、よく見ると面白いよ！

It looks pretty normal, yes? Well, wait for it......

▲ パーツは全部3Dプリント用の無料サイトからダウンロードして、プリントしました。最後にハンズマンから買った木材に載せました。耳をウォルナット色のワックス、ボディを透明ワックスで拭きました。

The parts for the sign were all downloaded from a free design on Thingiverse, and printed out in black and white plastic. Then I bought a suitable piece of rough-cut wood from my local DIY store (Handsman), and added antique waxes to the surfaces to age it and protect it.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2087990

では、Are you ready?.......

▲ If you slowly turn it .....



▲ ..... the letters start to lift .....



▲ ..... and spin around .....

▲ ..... to make a CLOSED sign instead!

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Giant DIY light 大型ライトを作りました！

一階のホールはほとんどできていますが、やはりライトを変更したいですね！現在のライトは蛍光灯ですので、光は白で、bzzzzzzzの音もしますから雰囲気が合っていません。今回LEDのエジソン形の電球にします。

The downstairs hall is edging closer to completion now, so it's time to deal with those old lights. It used to be a dyeing workshop and then a painting studio, so I guess the bright fluorescent strip lights were adequate task lighting, but they are getting on a bit and so tend to buzz, and they have quite high power usage (320W for eight of them). Worst of all, the light they give off is a white light, which makes the room feel cold. So it's time to change them out....

▲ まずは３Dソフトで形を作ってみました。大引きの位置によって、二つに分けます。3メートルの丸い形に作りたいですが、そんなに大きい丸がないので、30cmずつのレール式にします。

I started this project by designing a large 3 metre diameter chandelier, with 18 retro-style Edison bulbs hanging down around the circumference. I suppose it's more of a rail lighting system than a chandelier, but the lights will be fixed in place. I originally wanted to make this a perfect circle from something like wood, but couldn't find any easy of creating this on a budget.... so I decided to make it out of 30cm straight sections joined together to make something that is close to a true circle.

▲ 最初に全部３Dプリントでしたかったんですが、重かったです。その代わりにDIY店で見つけった鉄レールを30センチ部分に切りました。

I bought several 2m metal rails from the local DIY store. I think they are commonly used as lightweight but strong systems for suspended ceilings, but they suited my purposes well too. So I carefully cut 30 pieces of 30cm length using a cutting blade on my rotary saw. Easy peasy so far!

▲ 作業中で手を切らないように鑢で綺麗にしました。

I then smoothed off any sharp edges with a file, so as not to cut my fingers later on!

▲ 電気配線の穴を開いてから、艶なしの黒でスプレーをしました。

Half of the pieces needed holes drilled in them for wiring, and then I sprayed them all with a matt black spray paint.

▲ 各レール部分を接続するところには３Dプリンターで30個のジョイントをデザインしました。上の写真はすべてのパーツとなっています。多いでしょう？！エジソン電球18個、中国から来たソケット18個、そしてレトロっぽい配線も集めました。

I'd been slowly collecting the various bits I needed for this project, so now I had 18 LED bulbs plus 18 shiny brass sockets, and some retro-style black cabling to match them. The joints between each section of rail were created to fit them exactly, and 3D printed slowly in the preceding days.

▲ 電気スイッチが二つありますので、1個の配線を抜いてライトの作成が半分ずつにしました。まずは天井から下がるところを図ってボルトとナットプレートを入れました。そして、ちょっとずつ各30センチ部分を下がりました。

次は電気配線の作業でした。これは結構簡単でしたので、スムーズに進みました。

Time to start fitting the light system, by fixing nut plates to the ceiling at various points. Then I fitted in cut pieces of long bolt, and hanging some custom-made hooks. Then I slowly slid in the short sections of railing, and started to join them together.

▲ 電球を入れて、スイッチの配線につながりました。電球のソケットにも１個ずつのスイッチもありますので、結構便利です。部屋の雰囲気や目的によって光が調整できます。

The next step was to run some cabling on the topside of the rails, and add 9 sockets using the retro-style twist cable. Each of these brass sockets has a separate on/off switch, so it's possible to adjust the light levels to fit whatever you're doing that day.

▲ 最後にレールを平行しました。あっちこっちに接続ジョイントが下がったところもありましたので、細かいプラスチックリボンで天井に付けました。これで平行に調整できましたので、ライトの半分終わりました。

The last thing to be done was to even up the railing. At a few joints the railing has started to droop slightly, because there were only 5 attachment points along the 4 meter circumference, so I added a few extra supports using long zip ties and some extra bits and bobs! This made the whole thing fairly level and even, and worked well enough for me.

▲ １週間後に残りの半分も同じ風に完成できました！いかがでしょうか？

A week later I went back and completed the second half of the light in the same manner, and at last I had a finished lighting system! The height of the bulbs has been carefully alternated between high and low, just to create some extra interest and give it a more 'crafty' feel.

▲ やっぱり電球色のほうがいいですね！部屋の雰囲気も完全に変わりました！

I absolutely love it! The whole room is now bright and warm, and somehow still super cosy. I think lightbulb-coloured bulbs are such a great improvement on the glaring white light of strips lights.... plus the power consumption is now halved, even with 18 of those bulbs!

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Ceiling finished! 1階天井が完成!

結構時間かかりましたが、やっと1階ホールの断熱材入りの天井が完成できました！夏から続けて工事をしていましたが、やはり思ったより時間かかった。これで1階も2階もちょっと暖かくなりました。

So this took quite a long time. The skill level is about a 2, but the pain-in-the-ass level was about a 5, I think! So many darn panels to cut to size. I've been working on this ceiling since the summer (a couple of hours at a time in the evenings), but it's finally finished - and the downstairs and upstairs should have a better chance at staying warm tis winter.

次回の作業はこの部屋の大型シャンデリアになります。頑張りましょう！

Next project for this room will be the big chandelier light in the middle. Something a bit more fun, I hope!

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Animal heads トロフィー動物

1階の壁に動物トロフィーを飾ろうかなぁと思ったが、もちろん本物の動物なら載せたくないよね？ということは今回、３Dプリンターで作られたトロフィーを載せました。

In the downstairs hall I wanted to add a couple of animal trophy heads on the wall, to make a log-cabin kind of feel. But obviously I wasn't going to put real stuffed animal heads on the wall, so instead I printed a couple of realistic trophies in white plastic on the 3D printer.

まずは鹿野の頭ですね。。。

First up was the deer head, whose name is Bambi...



そして、猪の頭も作りました！

And then we have Miss Piggy, who is another animal (well, a boar to be exact!) we get around here. Haven't seen one yet, though!

白いプラスチックで面白いかもね！

I think they look great in white plastic against the natural wood, and contrast well with the black far wall.

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Mount Aso eruption! 阿蘇山噴火

昨日阿蘇山が噴火しました！草千里のカメラから撮影されたビデオがすごい！

So yesterday morning Mount Aso, Japan's largest active volcano, blew up a bit. Watch the video from the nearest tourist spot below, which is only a couple of kilometres from the house. The video's pretty much realtime, which is pretty frightening. Hopefully it'll just be a lot of ash, and nothing worse....

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