3D Scanning – BQ Ciclop kit ordered
I have realized that I would benefit from having a 3D scanner. I ran across the BQ Ciclop scanner. What a great open source company. BQ Systems You can read about the project on the link. I purchase the electronics and metal bits part of the kit for $156 including shipping from AliExpress. This is […]
Fusion 360 material experiment – 3D printing
So I’m on version 24 of my 3D printed unobtanium part….. I keep tweaking the dimensions and re-printing. It occurred to me that Autodesk Fusion 360 thought I was working in Steel, when I’m actually working in plastic. ABS plastic to be precise. Fusion 360 is a really nice CAD/CAM tool that represents the future […]
3d Try Try Try Again
On the one hand, 3D printing holds out the promise of design it today, get it tonight. Somewhere along my toolchain I need to account for the shrink factor. Plastic shrinks when you heat it, extrude it, and cool it. ABS shrinks more than PLA. Fusion 360 (aka F360) thinks I’m working with Steel. In […]
Web hosting maintenance – retiring Azure CDN and re-configuring AWS CDN
While this blog does not receive tons of traffic, I still run it so that it could handle a ton of traffic. This means leveraging CDN or Content Delivery Network technology. There are a number of providers who offer this, but Windows Azure and Amazon S3/Cloudfront are two of the best and cheapest. There are […]
3d printing
I decided to purchase and build a 3d printer. I acquired a Prusa i3 RepRap series open hardware kit from Prusa Research. Overall it’s a nice kit that leveraged the open manual based Dokazuki. For software I’m using Autodesk’s Fusion 360 which is free for Hobbyist and Startup use. Just click “download trial” and then […]
bitly = brokely
Well, all was working until I posted… then the bitly plugin crashed the site. No amount of re-configuration would make it happy. Fortunately, deleting it was easy and fixed the problem. I noticed there was not a new version, so that suggests it wasn’t working well.
migration drama o rama
It’s been a while since I posted. I’ve been very busy remodeling my house. I do have lots of projects on my to-do list, so I’ll start posting again. I had to do some housekeeping before I started posting. First things first, my OS was failing to update. After digging into it, I realized the […]
