Dennis Atwood http://www.dennisatwood.com Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:25:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 McMaster-Carr… http://www.dennisatwood.com/uncategorized/mcmaster-carr/ http://www.dennisatwood.com/uncategorized/mcmaster-carr/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:21:13 +0000 Dennis http://www.dennisatwood.com/?p=188 …is an awesome company.  (but UPS is not)  If you haven’t heard of them before, go to www.mcmaster.com right now.

I ordered 3 R8 collets from them just before the holidays and UPS lost my package.  The tracking showed delivered to “front door” but it never made it to my apartment.   I sent an email to [...]]]> http://www.dennisatwood.com/uncategorized/mcmaster-carr/feed/ 0 and behind door number three… http://www.dennisatwood.com/mathematics/and-behind-door-number-three/ http://www.dennisatwood.com/mathematics/and-behind-door-number-three/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:17:41 +0000 Dennis http://www.dennisatwood.com/?p=174 You may have heard this scenario before:

You’re on a game show and the host has you pick one of three doors. You win whatever is behind your door. Behind one of the doors is a car. Behind the other two doors are goats. You choose one of the doors. The [...]]]> http://www.dennisatwood.com/mathematics/and-behind-door-number-three/feed/ 2 Jacobs chuck http://www.dennisatwood.com/tools/jacobs-chuck/ http://www.dennisatwood.com/tools/jacobs-chuck/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:59:26 +0000 Dennis http://www.dennisatwood.com/?p=166 Sometimes you buy things from Ebay and when you open the box they’re smaller than expected.  But…

Then sometimes you open the box and find a drill chuck that’s bigger than your face. Okay, not really, but I was surprised at the size of this Jacobs Super Chuck (actual name) when I got it. [...]]]> http://www.dennisatwood.com/tools/jacobs-chuck/feed/ 0 New Videos! http://www.dennisatwood.com/uncategorized/new-videos/ http://www.dennisatwood.com/uncategorized/new-videos/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:31:24 +0000 Dennis http://www.dennisatwood.com/?p=159 I found some videos that I took of the first prototype of the Logo Bot drawing a side of a snowflake on the kitchen floor. The robot has been decommissioned, the parts waiting to be transplanted to v2.0 which will be in the works.

Check out the Logo Bot project page.

]]> http://www.dennisatwood.com/uncategorized/new-videos/feed/ 0 MPG http://www.dennisatwood.com/uncategorized/mpg/ http://www.dennisatwood.com/uncategorized/mpg/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:36:16 +0000 Dennis http://www.dennisatwood.com/?p=113 I usually do all my own auto-repairs, but lately just don’t have the time, and my truck had to go in for service. I had to cough up roughly 1/5th the worth of the vehicle to replace a bunch of stuff in the front end. So now I’m thinking “economy” and wondering what [...]]]> http://www.dennisatwood.com/uncategorized/mpg/feed/ 0 Really ties the shop together http://www.dennisatwood.com/tools/really-ties-the-shop-together/ http://www.dennisatwood.com/tools/really-ties-the-shop-together/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:23:07 +0000 Dennis http://dennisatwood.wordpress.com/?p=11 Harbor Freight has a sale right now, and if you’re on their email list, you probably get a new coupon just about every day. I had a 15% off coupon and “needed” some odds and ends, so I took a trip to Worcester to check out their nearest retail location. I’d been looking at horizontal band [...]]]> http://www.dennisatwood.com/tools/really-ties-the-shop-together/feed/ 0 My New Toy http://www.dennisatwood.com/tools/6/ http://www.dennisatwood.com/tools/6/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:20:29 +0000 Dennis http://dennisatwood.wordpress.com/?p=6 http://www.dennisatwood.com/tools/6/feed/ 0