http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/Recent content in Posts on Quentin SuireHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSat, 17 Sep 2022 21:27:47 +0200http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2022/why-cant-i-simply-choose-a-regular-keyboard/Sat, 17 Sep 2022 21:27:47 +0200http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2022/why-cant-i-simply-choose-a-regular-keyboard/Instead of only working from home and being alone with my desk, I decided at the beginning of the year to be unfaithful to it and rent another one in a co-working space in Angers. For this new place, I wanted to have a nice desk setup because I don’t like working directly on my laptop when I can work with a monitor, a mouse and a keyboard. I already had a monitor and a mouse I could use, but not a keyboard.http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2022/a-new-table-from-an-old-one/Mon, 05 Sep 2022 22:01:31 +0200http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2022/a-new-table-from-an-old-one/My sister wanted to get a new coffee table made of wood. As I like to work with this material, we thought that it would be a great idea to build it by ourselves. To start the project, we found a used rustic coffee table to sell in my town. And to spoil you right now, here are two pictures: one of the table before and another after the rework.http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2022/the-big-button-printer/Wed, 22 Jun 2022 23:06:46 +0200http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2022/the-big-button-printer/I created a simple yet functional device that features a single button on the top, a printer, and an ESP8266 with WiFi. The purpose of this machine is to print entertaining content, such as short stories or games, with just a single button press. I imagined this device to be installed in shared spaces, allowing people to take a break.http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2022/a-new-big-toy/Sat, 14 May 2022 21:44:58 +0200http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2022/a-new-big-toy/After a lot of hesitations before buying it, my lasercutter is here and ready to be used! My home starts to really look like a fablab. 60W CO2 lasercutterhttp://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2021/bedside-table-with-a-cnc-router/Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:00:37 +0200http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2021/bedside-table-with-a-cnc-router/The fablab of Caen (Le Dôme) has a ShopBot CNC router. My wife needed a bedside table. What could be better? So I drew several designs of the table. After some hesitation, we finally selected one and I was now able to create the CAD files. The material for this table is a beautiful birch plywood that I used for the Machine à Question V3. I bought a full sheet so I still had some.http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2020/a-new-toy/Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:59:02 +0200http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2020/a-new-toy/In September I received my brand new Prusa MK3S kit. I won’t explain the assembly process, it’s really well documented on the Prusa website. Just for the note, it took me around 2 days to build it. I’ve decided to purchase this 3D printer to be able to print at home some jigs or small tools for my workshop. I know that FDM doesn’t create the smoothest surface. But for workshop pieces, I don’t care about the aesthetic of the printed pieces, as long as it is sturdy and the dimensions are OK.http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2020/laser-cutting-some-gifts/Wed, 18 Nov 2020 21:31:09 +0200http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2020/laser-cutting-some-gifts/Lately I’ve found a place where I really like to go: “Le Dôme” in Caen (France). It is a collaborative space for innovation, aimed to professionals and individuals. Besides the different events occurring in this place, there is a fablab at the core of the building. I passed all the trainings to be able to use the different machines: from the embroidery machine to the big CNC router. Among these, the Trotec laser cutter stands out by its ease of use and production speed.http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2020/peugeot-ventoux-bike-restoration/Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:58:16 +0200http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2020/peugeot-ventoux-bike-restoration/I like bikes and I like to restore things, so I’ve learned how to restore a vintage race bike. When I was a child in the 90s, I had a small blue Peugeot bike with colorful stripes. So when I found a bike with a similar design on LeBonCoin1 I thought I could try to restore it. Moreover, the bike has medium to high-end components because it was aimed to be used by amateurs.http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2019/quentin-1-home-0/Sun, 01 Dec 2019 21:55:44 +0200http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2019/quentin-1-home-0/For the past month, I did one job: preparing the main room of our new house before moving in. We wanted to remove a wall and install new kitchen cabinets. But this decision implied a lot of work: remove the previous kitchen, break a wall, move some electric plugs and switches, replace the flooring, install the new kitchen, redo the ceiling and finally repaint all the room. All these steps are not done yet, but we were all clear to move in during November.http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2018/a-machine-a-questions-for-my-wedding/Sat, 04 Aug 2018 22:24:56 +0200http://www.quentinsuire.com/posts/2018/a-machine-a-questions-for-my-wedding/This year for my wedding, I decided to create the “Machine à Questions”, or the quiz Box. My wife and I wanted to make a fun activity for our guests. Something surprising and leaving them with a good memory they will remember. The core idea was to create a quiz about our couple but without using high-tech like an Ipad. We find it too standard, and that is just not who we are.