kenneth chung / mechameka0 blog

short_projects

  • Wood tacklebox organizer + soldering station

    quick project to organize and prepare for moving to grad school room

  • Mug Shelf

    built with common board, lightly stained golden oak wall-mounted with seismic protection by clear elastic band typically used in candi bracelet with the added feature of dowel rod key holders!

  • PhotoDump: Acoustic Treatment + Tapestry Sound Absorber

    New place, finally can screw things into the wall without worry Making a higher-quality sound absorber with rockwool and a very old tapestry from Yuumei unsure if this will be editted into a video. i do have the raw footages

  • Voron Mini Update 2: It’s alive!

    So since last post, the Voron has been turned on and ran through the complete initial setup. All the motors were reversed but everything moved as expected. It was beautiful! I will never get over how cool it is to see automated machines in action, especially knowing what’s going on…

  • Voron Part 1: Built in a cardboard box

    As a break in the middle of graduate application, I decided to break into my Voron kits. They’ve been sitting on my shelf for a few weeks now and I really want to start printing parts for them. Before starting anything and while I was waiting for the KVP ABS…

  • Restoring a 2nd hand turntable

    September 10,2024. My girlfriend, her sister, and I went to see Hozier at Shoreline Amphitheatre and got an unforgettable performance (Nobody’s Soldier is my favorite to hear live for that sweet bassline) When buying merch, my girlfriend decided to buy her favorite album as a vinyl record, ” Wasteland, Baby!”.…

  • returning life into a portable CRT [Part 1/2]

    Every 2nd sunday, 6AM to 12PM, of every month March to September, Silicon Valley holds an Electronics Flea Market. I had just recently discovered this event when getting interested in vintage tech and restoration so I marked my calender and waited. The flea market was held in May 19, 2024…

  • DIY hotplate from an old coffee maker

    [Details to be added later]

  • Planter Pot

    I designed a succulent planter pot referencing SMISKI’s and other human-shaped planters for my mom’s garden. All of the surface, free-form modeling was done in Fusion360, which was an odd choice as a parametric software. Mostly eyeballing and pinching surface nodes until they look right and the 3D printer software…

  • Home repair of toaster oven

    [Temp] One day, my parent’s toaster oven stopped working. You’d turn the knob and only the toast function would work (there’s oven, broil, and air fryer mode). Since this oven isn’t super complicated or proprietary like a smart device or super dangerous like a microwave project, surely there has to…