{"id":4023,"date":"2011-05-16T00:52:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T22:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=4023"},"modified":"2011-05-16T00:52:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T22:52:48","slug":"make-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/make-excuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Make: Excuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how it is. One day when you&#8217;re cleaning up the terrible mess which is your apartment you find all the bills, reminders and last notices you were meaning to get to, and you yelp a little. Or like earlier today, when I couldn&#8217;t find my other glove \u2014\u00a0I had to leave in a hurry to get the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.val.se\/val\/om2011\/valnatt\/L\/lan\/14\/index.html\">voting<\/a> done \u2014\u00a0and felt stupid for not having lost a single glove all winter, and waiting until spring before managing it.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, I later found the glove further down in my man-purse, so perhaps the example isn&#8217;t valid. An example which <em>is<\/em> valid, is my realisation the other day that I have fuck-all to do all summer. Being self-employed, this means I got fuck-all income. So, I set myself to task with filling the weeks ahead with dilligent work and ambition, trying to see if  any of my <em>almost-competencies<\/em> can be harnessed for cash and\/or grants.<\/p>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve managed to code a webpage for the <em>Mateusz Saves<\/em> project (I&#8217;ll post it here as soon as it stops blowing squid balls) and today we had an etching workshop at KKV. I managed to etch my first PCB ever, which was somewhat similar to doing my first photographic print, only more corrosive and smelling of chloride gas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0354.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_0354\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4029\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCN7111.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN7111\" width=\"640\" height=\"351\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4028\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The purpose of todays exercise was to establish a standard process of making PCBs, and with just a few adjustments \u2014\u00a0and enthusiastic support for building a bubble tank from some quarters \u2014\u00a0it seems as if we succeeded. Watching paper dissolve from an ironed-on piece of copper and glass fibers might not be the most exciting thing to do, but it sure feels productive in a sciency-sort-of-way. The stuff we tried printing was the control board for a <a href=\"http:\/\/reprap.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">RepRap<\/a>, which co-incidentally is what I need for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arte.fi\/sumu\/sumu_main.html\">SUMU residency<\/a> later this fall. I&#8217;m thinking of setting up a table in the kitchen and have the RepRap there, come odours or noxious fumes, allowing for the possibility of the following dialogue:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Y&#8217;know, you really ought to get small holders for these chopsticks.<br \/>\n\u2014 Oh, why don&#8217;t you describe them to me and I&#8217;ll FUCKING PRINT THEM FOR YOU!<\/p>\n<p>Because that is what every adult with a 3D printer dreams of saying, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how it is. One day when you&#8217;re cleaning up the terrible mess which is your apartment you find all the bills, reminders and last notices you were meaning to get to, and you yelp a little. 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