Church of Saint Mary, Manby, Lincolnshire

It is quite a while since I took some photographs around the outside of St. Mary's, Manby. Since then I have been promising myself to have a quick look round the inside. As I had to visit two other places in Manby I took the opportunity to see whether it was open.

Saint Mary's Manby dates back to the 15th Century and may have been built on the site of an earlier church. One clue is a late Anglo-Saxon slab which was discovered during Victorian restoration work. It can now be seen embedded in the north wall of the Nave.



On entering the church through the North porch the font is the first item to be seen:

 

It was very dark inside which made the magnificent East window stand out:

 

Close view of the central figure:

 

The inscription:





Either side, behind the choir stalls, are identical windows:



From the outside I was just able to make out another stained glass window near the base of the tower.
Unfortunately this is hidden from view behind the organ loft:



A couple of views of the pulpit:





One of the roof timbers:



and finally a brass memorial plaque:



All photographs taken with my trusty Nikon Coolpix S9050 pocket camera.
Its tiny built in flash gun did a grand job dispelling the gloom.

Information found on midmarshchurches.org.uk and Lincs to the Past web sites.

Time Lapse Clouds

This time I mounted my 3D printed phone holder on a tripod.

 

iPod clamped in place and set up in the garden.
5V power bank hanging below.



That view shows why I end up walking about half a kilometre when cutting the grass.

Once again I used the Apple Camera app to take the shots and produce the video.
I let it run for about 45 minutes.



Next time I'll try to get things level!

Another Phone Holder

I have been searching through many designs for 3D printed holders for phones which were suitable for use on a tripod. Finally I found one on thingiverse I thought worth trying out.

Just three printed sections



which fit together to make



I fitted it to a universal ball joint I already had and clamped my iPod



The whole thing will fit on the standard screw on a tripod.
I also found the stand from an old 7 inch monitor and attached it to that

 

so I could stand and angle it in the bedroom window to take a time lapse video.
The block on the right is a rechargeable 5V power bank.
Useful when something may need  power for an extended period.

Not a brilliant day for time lapse photography!



If I understood things correctly the built in Apple Camera app (when set to the time lapse setting) chooses the number of frames per second so that the resulting video is no more than 40 seconds long no matter how long it has been filming. It does this after the recording has been stopped. Not exactly a speedy process but nor is it speedy transferring 100s of individual photos to a laptop and putting them together to make a video,

Spotted

A couple of nice sunny days, warm out of the cool wind.
Managed to get the grass trimmed yesterday.
Today I was checking how well some plants had survived the winter so far when I saw:



a seven spot ladybird soaking up the sunshine.

Traditional Korean folk paintings and wall decoration

I just had to make this 3D printable decoration found on the Thingiverse web site.
Designed by user hyojung0320

Being printed with green PLA:



Finished item:

 

Print time just under an hour.
Size about 11cm (4.25in) across and 1.5mm thick.
I chose this as a trial in printing something with reasonable detail.
On close examination there are some tiny gaps in the structure.
Maybe if I had chosen a finer print setting it would have been better through that would have taken a bit over 2 hours to print.

I must get some more colours. Not cheap but each 1kg reel seems to last a long while.

A Couple of Solo Visits

It has been a couple of weeks since anything last visited the camera nestbox.
Today there were two visits by a solo Great Tit:

This morning:


This afternoon:


(Snapshots from the automatically recorded video)

A Simple Start

It's been too darned cold in the unheated conservatory to consider 3D printing until today.
I have a small collection of business cards which usually end up in an untidy pile on the desk.
Then I keep knocking and scattering them on the floor.
I had been looking for a simple idea for my first 'from scratch' 3D design.
Previously I had only used designs downloaded from various sites.
A little box to keep the cards tidy seemed like a good place to start.

First task was to come to terms with v0.18 of FreeCAD to design the box.
Essentially it is made starting with two solid cubes.
One is enlarged to make the outside walls of the box.
The second is made slightly smaller to make the inside walls.
The small one is fitted inside the larger one and the program told to cut out the smaller one.
This makes the hollow box to hold the cards.



The idea was to save that as a .stl file for the next process but FreeCAD refused to do that.
Fortunately there are lots of export choices so I tried saving it as a .obj file.
That worked.

Next I loaded the .obj file in Ultimaker Cura and told it to slice the design to make the instructions needed by the 3D printer. It will instruct the printer what to do on each 0.2mm layer.

 

That was saved as a .gcode file and transferred to the 3D printer on an SD card.
Reel of grey PLA filament loaded.
Finally the long wait as the printer strutted its stuff to create the box.






It took 3 hrs 16 minutes to print.

 

 

Job done.