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Exploring the pencil2d F6

Posted on January 10, 2016 by admin

So one of thing I’m starting to  taking a look at this: https://github.com/pencil2d/pencil/issues/414 Playing around with the app, it looks like the F6 duplicate frame in combination with a pencil draw, F6 is yielded correct results.  (I’m thinking it might … Continue reading →

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Messing around with Pencil2d. Exploring the selection tool.

Posted on January 9, 2016 by admin

Over the holidays, my daughter had expressed an interest in learning animation.  I did a little googling an I found a open source package called pencil2d.   She downloaded and tried using it and found it too buggy.  I uses C++/QT … Continue reading →

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Nice little git reference.

Posted on December 30, 2015 by admin

I seem to gotten back on the git thing..  Anyway, I found this nice concise guide on forking and pushing changes…   Kind of nice so I wanting to leave myself a note…. http://kbroman.org/github_tutorial/pages/fork.html

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First dabbles with Android-Studio

Posted on November 8, 2015 by admin

A while back I was dabbling with App-Inventor to get my hexy the hexapod working on my Nexus tablet.  It was a fun project.   Poor hexy is in pieces now, stripped for her servo’s.    So.. for a variety of reasons, … Continue reading →

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More Fooling speed encoder with my little robot.

Posted on August 16, 2015 by admin

The little robot I picked up a Musecon came supplied with an optical encoder disks but lacked the transmissive optical sensor with phototransistor output, photo sensor, or whatever you call those things.  Dwayne had a sensor for paired robot wheels … Continue reading →

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Fooling around with my Musecon robot.

Posted on August 9, 2015 by admin

I just got done attending Musecon this year.  I had a great time but scheduling didn’t let attend all three days.  When I  visited Dale and Dwayne of 2DKits and I saw they had some robot kits that they where … Continue reading →

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Something I’ ve been working on.

Posted on May 3, 2015 by admin

This tube only cuts properly if there is a no radius in the Dline.  

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Messing around with Pipe bending in freeCAD

Posted on February 7, 2015 by admin

I’ve had the need for bending pipe in freeCAD.  I had mentioned this on the IRC as well as the freecad forum.   NormandC  had posted a video on youtube on how to do this using Dwires. I’m not sure what … Continue reading →

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Converting Images to printable templates.

Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin

I was googling for a way to import a image into freecad and I ran into this page. http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=5893 This wasn’t what I was looking for but this is pretty cool… Basically takes a 2d gray scale image and converts … Continue reading →

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Some notes on creating a workbench

Posted on December 27, 2014 by admin

With all the other stuff I have going on, I don’t know if how much time I have to devote this project but the idea intrigues me and is fun to think about… If you want to create a workbench … Continue reading →

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