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Having and issue installing pygal

This took a little longer than it should to figure out.. For what ever reason install pygal using pip on my debian stretch yielded this error. pi@tomrpi3:~ $ pip install pygal Collecting pygal Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File … Continue reading

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Exciting things happen in freecad Ver.17 and down the Rabbit hole we go.

I’m a long time Freecad user but  I’ve been staying away from the bleeding edge of development since the stable build basically worked and suited my needs.  I have had way too many irons in the fire in my life … Continue reading

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Problems Ssh’ng into my Beaglebone Black using my W530 with Nvidia drivers

I was moving along, having all kinds of fun ssh’ng into my Beaglebone using my W530 laptop with out any difficulties.  My problems started when I wanted do use dual monitors with my docking port.   In order to do that, … Continue reading

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Its been a while. Playing around with screen resolution on a atrix lapdock for beaglebone black and machinekit

I’ve been playing around with machinekit lately and I’ve gotten around to using with my Beaglebone Black with a Cramps board.  It’s been a huge amount of fun.   I had a Atrix Lapdock that I wanted to use but I … Continue reading

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Problems with the Rockbot.

I’ve been having some intermittent skipping issues on the Y-axis on my Rockbot and I wanted to go over some of my settings on my polulos..  My table is very smooth running, although in hind site it’s inertial mass is … Continue reading

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More refactoring with the polyline.

I haven’t much time lately for playing around with pencil2d.   Work as well as other life commitments haven’t left much gas in the tank for me to pursue fun stuff like this.  Currently I’m having a rare quiet Sunday … Continue reading

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Refactoring the polyline in pencil2d

So I’ve managed to get myself deep into the rabbit hole now.    https://github.com/pencil2d/pencil/issues/423 The way things are structured in pencil2d is that a polyline would be drawn in bitmap mode and  a bezier would be drawn in vector mode.  In … Continue reading

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Converting a Ogv to Avi in youtube in ubuntu 14.04

Sometime Linux can really be annoying(I still like like it though). So I’ve been trying to use recordmydesktop to record which saves natively in OGV.   Unfortunately youtube doesn’t like OGV you need to convert to AVI. So I tried the … Continue reading

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Just some quick notes on enabling/Disabling stuff in qt

I’m a little to tired to work on this at the moment,  but I had some links that I want to look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9506614/how-to-gray-out-a-menu-item-in-qt http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qtoolbutton.html   ToolBoxWidget::ToolBoxWidget(const QString title, QWidget* pParent ) : BaseDockWidget( title, pParent, Qt::Tool ) { QFrame* … Continue reading

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Pencil2d Initial thoughts on the Copy paste within a frame bugs #414

I’ve been looking at the code and playing with the app  figure out how to replicate this It seems that the selection/move tool by themselves are working pretty good. I was playing the the move tool and noticed a couple … Continue reading

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