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Ongoing conversion of analog resources to digital format

I have been working on putting all the sundry sketches, drawings, and ideas into digital format. Not such an easy task. I have been setting this up and not using the resources I have at hand for some time. I have lots of computer resources for doing analog to digital transfers. Most of it is pointed at audio transfers but it seems I am more interested in making and setting these electronics up than I am working with them... I am working at changing this trend of setting up and not using my resources right now.
 
Some time ago I bought a Genius MousePen 8x6. This is a rather nice, and fairly cheap, pen tablet for drawing and manipulating on screen objects using a pen. It has a pressure sensitive tip so it can be used for shading and a variety of on screen uses. 
 
I have also acquired a copy of GIMP 2 which is a GNU image manipulation program. This is a nice freeware drawing program that does layers and all sorts of "paint" like manipulation programs. The GIMP works on windows 7 which is my current operating system... I am using the win7 version in other words. This seems much easier to manipulate than some of the CAD programs I have tried.
 
I am using the pad in GIMP to touch up my sketches and drawings so they are presentable to be posted here. Although I have not been posting a lot I am working steadily in the background... well after a week of vacation ending today... I was out of town and away from any online computing resources. So now back and refreshed I go back to work tomorrow and continue to work on my here as I take breaks from the garage shop and doing all those normal chores we all do at home... laundry, cooking, cleaning... Et cetera ad nauseam.

It would appear that I will be making, in addition to a router table and a box joint jig, a more versatile drill press table to enable the box joint jig... so to summarize.

I am making a router table, a drill press table, and a box joint jig (in that order) to enable the construction of a set of tool boxes that we desperately need to keep our sanity with the number of tools that are floating about.

During that construction project I will be working on this blog as well as working for a living... sigh.

I gave up TV awhile ago so this is not so undoable as it might sound but I do have to take breaks. Hang in there this stuff is coming along and I will keep this as up to date as I can.

Update:
I dislike drawing on GIMP. It is very slow! I think I might try doing a cleaner copy of drawings and see if I can get them to scan better. I am thinking of a transfer using a tracing light box and making a pen and ink version of my drawing and then scanning. I can then use GIMP for touch ups and transfer of format. 09-25-2017

I have found the pen and ink transfer by tracing is the clearest option. Will be ordering a dedicated light pad for this. It beats the old overhead projector I am using... kind of bulky that. 10-16-2017
Ceeann

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