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LaTeX-SVG-to-PDF now compatible with LaTeX Project Structure Guidelines

I’ve pushed a couple up updates to LaTeX-SVG-to-PDF that come from some changes I made to my largest LaTeX project file. Since I converted a long (>100 pages) document from Microsoft Word format to LaTeX, I’ve now split the file down into the separate chapters for easier editing that are all \include{}‘d or \input{}‘d from [...] read more…

Bottom Bracket and Adjustment

The bottom bracket structure was not quite ready to show last week (although I put up pictures) but it’s much better this week. If you don’t feel there’s been much obvious progression from those images, you’re not alone, I keep putting in the hours on the CAD, and it doesn’t seem to change shape much! [...] read more…

Chainline Progress

A hardware failure on my file-server this week has left me couple of days behind on CAD work this week, so where I expected to have a near-complete drivetrain assembly and instead, I only have the unfinished parts of one. However, I’m putting up images of the progress as it is for two reasons: 1. [...] read more…

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"The days of companies with names like 'General Electric' and 'General Mills' and 'General Motors' are over. The money on the table is like krill: a billion little entrepreneurial opportunities that can be discovered and exploited by smart, creative people."

Cory Doctorow, "Makers"

...maybe not yet, but it is already beginning.

The world still lives with mass-produced products; designed to averaged, normalised, focus grouped specifications, where one-size-doesn't-quite-fit-anyone. It buys proprietary products, locked boxes with stickers that say "warranty void if opened". But contrary to popular misinformation, products are never finished. There is no "best" design. How is what you need the same as what everyone else needs?

What if a product was open? What if you could see the work that went into it? If your ideas were as valid as the designer's and made-at-home was just as good as made-by-us?

That's what we do. Open Source Design Engineering.
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