Lots of project log backlog to catch up on. Again. Starting with:

MRRF. Successfully after not getting there last year.

Taking this project to the Midwest RepRap Festival (MRRF) a couple of times (2022, 2023) has encouraged and enriched continuing development of the idea. 

A great drone flythrough video gives a quick visual impression of the event.

MRRF is mostly about 3d printing. A very few CNC machines of ye olde subtractive nature turn up too, so they haven't kicked me out yet.

"But what is this 'RepRap'?" you might ask. Increasingly many people aware of "3d printing" won't know that personal/home/hobby/cheap/accessible 3d printing all happened under a banner called "RepRap" before it graduated to global industry. ERRF already isn't called that anymore.

Anyhow...

I didn't take any pictures (again), but Shenanigans3d stopped by while live streaming his tour of the show (1:05:32 if the link doesn't drop you in at that time).

Hustle to make some new demo widget before the show contributed to letting logs lapse here. That turned into yet another yet smaller differential gearbox -- this time with a bona fide application(!) -- which will get its own log entry here *cough*soon*cough*. Apart from Mr. Shenanigan's autofocusonsomethingelse close-up, all I've got to show for now are a couple of in-progress pix:

People, like Mr. Shenanigans, stopping to look and talk for more than a minute seems like feedback that this project is actually interesting. Just for fun, here's an interview with another guy, "Steve". His thing is interesting in its own right and he reps it well (at 26:38). Did you know about the "CLSP" scene? I for sure didn't until I went over to see what was that thing like-but-unlike a sewing machine that he had. Relevant for this paragraph: the guy in the blue T-shirt and beard beyond the interviewer's left shoulder is another more-than-a-minute visitor there looking and talking though most of the duration of Steve's interview. People even remember from prior shows. Maybe the highlight of the trip was a quiet parting handshake from an old machinist.