Trans Scend Survival

Trans: Latin prefix implying "across" or "Beyond", often used in gender nonconforming situations – Scend: Archaic word describing a strong "surge" or "wave", originating with 15th century english sailors – Survival: 15th century english compound word describing an existence only worth transcending.

Fusion 360 for 3d Printing w/ Jess

March 1, 2023 / Jess / 0 Comments

Next class: April 3rd, 6pm - 8pm: Click here to add to your google calendar!

Draw and print your mechanical daydreams! Watertight threads? Anneal-fit tolerances? Learn to design and print beautiful hardware and parts in this exciting workshop with Jess!

Functions and features we will touch may include:

- Offset, trim, point to point move
- Mirror, pattern, split
- BREP booleans, chamfer, fillet
- Minimalist sketch management & construction planes
- Press pull, sweep, extrude as boolean
- Scaling, threading & design considerations for FDM 3d printing
- Utilize the McMaster-Carr library & manipulate meshes as BREP
- Workflow interoperability with Tinkercad, Inkscape, MeshMixer, a360 & myhub services
- Versioning, Git & public collaboration

Please share your enthusiasm, ask questions and join the conversation in IG’s lively Discord server.

smol updates – November 9 2022

November 9, 2022 / Jess / 0 Comments

This winter, I am excited to be teaching a new youth-oriented class at the Odessa Public Library- "TinkerCAD for Functional 3d Printing & Propmaking"! Sign up here: https://ithacagenerator.org/tinkercad
"Youth ages 8-18 will master the tools and skills required to design and print just about anything made of plastic, and will be confident in their ability to search for projects and models others have designed and print them at the Odessa Public Library."
I've been fairly distant for the last few months, but not for a lack of exciting projects! I've been sorta hyperfocused on the research and development of ultrasonically emulsified polyethylene polymers for an upcoming and very exciting material brand of my own.

Makerspace financial reporting w/ ipython

February 6, 2022 / Jess / 0 Comments

Visit this project on github here

Merge PayPal & Membershipworks members in a sorta intelligent way to create kinda accurate financial reports
Convert a PayPal transaction export into an upsert-able csv to import into membershipworks
Keep tabs on PayPal memberships as they become deprecated

(note, you'll need nbconvert, pandoc, TeX to write to pdf)

...If all goes well, the output will look something like:

loaded **** paypal records
loaded ** existing membershipworks records
converted Date column to datetime objects
kept *** records processed between 01/01/22 and 22/11/21; discarded **** records
discarded **'s Donation Payment record for **, continuing...
discarded **'s PreApproved Payment Bill User Payment record for **, continuing...
** ** already in member list! continuing...
discarded ** **'s Payment Refund record for -**.00, continuing...
discarded ** **'s Donation Payment record for **.00, continuing...
exported: ** Members!
 - ** Standard Members
 - ** Offline Standard Members
 - ** Extra Members
 - ** Offline Extra Members
 ...to a membershipworks-readable format at ./csv/membershipworks_import.csv