Date: 2026/04/19 - body and mind - Themes: IRL, hobbies, FreeCAD

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latency

I started to write this article last month, and yeah of course i got sidetracked and overloaded of stuff and almost forgot i got a blog to vent my little feels.

pinky up high, it ain't never comin' down no

what a title huh? It's a lyric by Dorian Electra in a song called Gentleman. And with that i have my first injury that required going to ER. I got a tendon tear in my pinky. What a ridiculous injury but still, the very end of my finger was indeed not maintained by the natural elasticity of a tendon.

I went to special ER for hand injuries, some secretary told me "it wasn't that bad" and replied "it's not without pain nonetheless" then i hanged out at the hospital. And a specialist made a tiny little prosthetic for my tiny little pinkie, maintained by 2 straps and boom, spent 3 hours there.

There is almost to some pain, its just some weird stretch feeling in my finger for now and when i don't put the straps correctly i cut blood from it.

The only thing that misses me is the gaming, i use my pinkie, okey its mostly shift and ctrl its hard now. Also it not time to get a ridiculous emacs pinkie injury right?

Its rewind time!

So last month, march right? I'm still in training. I went and made a 2-week internship in a machining company. It was awesome, i even managed to confront my skills of making plans with TechDraw workbench a 'FreeCAD mode'. Made an axle spindle for my Raleigh Twenty.

To make it the operator i was following, used a Mazak lathe, its command language is called Mazatrol. Then he used the conversational way of making the part. Conversational mode is using the computer of the machine to make a part opposed to make a Gcode with another computer using CAM software and sent it to the machine.

This method is really efficient for simple parts. My axle spindle has various operations that could suit the 2 methods

Another operator didn't quite agreed with the way of making it "conversationally" the part was complicated enough to make it right away in CAM software.

FreeCAD-fu results

I learned the basics of new workbenches in FreeCAD! This time its CAM, Techdraw and improving my workflow on those i already know.

And you already saw the results, and i take time to acknoledge it. Few years back i was just telling FreeCAD had an incredible steep learning curve but y'know what. Never leave it. At my internship i used MasterCAM. And while i was quite unsettled by its workflow, i cal clearly tell what i prefer.

In between

I've been studying a lot, i plan to get some tuition. Turn to machining and industry. But my hobbies are still here, i still do bass (even its a poor idea to have since i still got my pinkie covered in straps), i still sew, i still design my little keyboard thingy. Most important i still update my lil place

Did i told u?

We're almost done. here a list of stuff i didnt talked my blog about but really wanted

• i got myself a Aigo Eros Q, i managed to install Rockbox on it, and even modify a theme
• installed new spindle and crankset on Lil B
• updated my laptop to the latest version of LMDE; Linux Mint Debian Edition. *BSD will be for later
• i got all my film rolls processed, no more forgotten pics

end point

i took me ages to write it, worth it.

by the way, if you're interested by having a technical drawing or even the freeCAD file of Raleigh twenty's axle spindle. i'm right there, i can be slow to answer but i always respond!