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Depth of Calcification Meter
My senior design project for WMU was a depth of calcification meter. Before I started the project I had no idea what a “Calcification layer” of fire damaged gypsum wallboard was, but after working with it for almost a year I could go in way too much detail for a simple blog post. The basic premise is that when there is a fire the gypsum wallboard (commonly called drywall) is heat damaged, which causes it to undergo a chemical & physical change. This change results in a wildly lower density for the changed area of the wall. When a fire-investigator investigates the root cause of the fire it is helpful to know the depth to which this change has occurred. This depth is used by the fire-investigator to help find the cause of the fire.
In short, our sponsor approached us with the background provided above and asked us to create a prototype device.
Senior Design ProjectTurning my printer into a fax machine
This is a quick post today. Two days ago, I bought a brand-new Brother DCP-L2550DW and I had the grand idea to turn it into effectively a fax machine. To do this I will have a webpage hosted that accepts uploads of pdf files. These pdf files are then immediately printed and then deleted. This involved a couple of fairly simple things that came together to make this all work.
Fax MachineT-Shirt Press
The goal of this project is to make a working T-Shirt press in the style of the Cricut Easy Press. The project is still in it’s early days but I will keep this post up-to date with the current status.
The idea came for this project when using a vinyl cutting machine. Thinking of how it would be nice to be able to make T-Shirts with with it.
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