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Recently we've been struggling to manage our wire collection, fed up with the tangled mess it had become we decided to put some work into addressing it. The result a solution that's:     simple (two unique pieces)     expandable (easy to bolt together)     and fun (we like the curly shaft catcher) If you'd like to build your own: Parts:(single bay) WIHO-01  x2  Wire Reel Side (3mm sheet stock) WIHO-02  x7  Wire Reel Joiner (3mm sheet stock) BOL-03-16  x14  3mm x 16mm Machine Screw NUT-03-01  x14  3mm Nut BOL-08-100  x4  8mm x 100mm Bolt NUT-08-01  x4  8mm Nut Files: On Thingiverse  (external) Mechanical...

Around oomlout hq we're gearing up for the Christmas season. Working hard on adding a few fun new products (arriving shortly), posting orders, and making sure we keep as many items as we can in stock (all items shown as in stock will ship within 24 hours (on week-days)). Luckily the good folks at Royal Mail and The Post Office are working just as hard,offering extended opening hours, and extra deliveries (including Sunday December 19th). For all the details visit www.royalmail.com/christmasposting. With that in mind ordering earlier is advised but here are the absolute limits for ensuring your oomlout order...

We do quite a bit of soldering at .:oomlout:. and as all will know proper air flow when doing so is important. Until now we've been taking a hammer to the situation by turning on a large fan. However as the temperature begins to dip that solution is growing more and more unpleasant. To tackle this we bought some 80mm PC fans and cut up a small stand to hold them. Now soldering (and breathing) continues apace, just without the jacket. .:Want to Make Your Own:. Design Files (mechanical reference) (pdf) Laser Files (cdr) Additional Files and Formats :: (http://oomlout.com/FANH/)

We've recently grown annoyed with the slightly bow legged stance DIP ICs ship with (it makes inserting them into sockets ever so frustrating). Rather than continue to spend longer than we liked on less than perfect results we decided to make ourselves a little jig to help out. Simply slide the IC along the channel and the two bearings ensure the ICs pins are bent straight and ready for insertion (we have to thank EMSL for letting us know that these existed ( here ) ) .:Want to Make Your Own:. Design Files (mechanical reference) (pdf) Laser Files (cdr) Additional...

We go through a lot of ribbons of resistors at oomlout. While we have gotten quite speedy slicing them with scissors we knew there had to be a better way. As a result, we decided to design a machine to help us out. The current prototype takes an Arduino, a stepper motor, two RC servos, two exacto blades and a bundle of laser sliced 3mm MDF. It produces resistors strips of any length. A lovely video of it in action: A Few More Views:     We have plans to fix a few things up before cleaning up the files and...