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Even more blue skying..

I just want to park a few research notes somewhere. I ran across an interesting link on V-rollers and other rollers here. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/deltabot/a3PoNqsLXQc I’m thinking I want to to go with a plastic roller as opposed to a steel roller… … Continue reading

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Blue Skying on a Kossel Fork

I was thinking about some of the design constraints I set up myself for the new printer.  One mental issue I was having with my initial fork of the Kossel Clear was the perpendicular distance of the belt from the … Continue reading

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Playing around with a fork a Kossell.

I couldn’t resist getting in on that $150 free for first time order deal from Misumi  I wound  up getting 20 2 meter 1515 aluminum extrusions  and some nuts and bolts   A guy at the hackerspace that I go … Continue reading

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Jump starting Gtd again.

A couple of years back I was very heavily into GTD and was using it well.   I feel that it did have a positive impact on my life as far a getting organized, accomplishing things and doing it in a … Continue reading

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Some Experiments Trying to get some G-code generated.

Ok… I wanted to see if can figure out how to spit out g-code using freecad and heekscnc.So.. I created a little test object here using freecad and I exported it to an Iges… So… next this is to crank … Continue reading

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Gettting the cam itch again

Oh my this what I get when I let my GTD fall apart. Too many irons in the fire and none getting hot. I have my cnc sherline project thats starting bubble up, but there’s also a functioning shapeoko that … Continue reading

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Getting Started with MonkeyX on linux.

So my young daughter has been want me to help her write her a computer came.. It’s been something talked about on an off. So someone mentioned this cross platform game development environment called monkeyX.. http://www.monkeycoder.co.nz/ I installed but apparently … Continue reading

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App Inventor 2 problems passing get start value to new screen on the Hexy project

So I’m still a newb at this app inventor but I’m starting to be some what dangerous one, since I sort of think I’m starting to know what I’m doing 😉 Here’s what’s I’m trying to accomplish on my project … Continue reading

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Last Day of Vacation and next goal for the Hexy Ai2 project

Well, this isthe last day of vacation. ;( Well actually composition of post has bled into the first. second day of work My daughters school got cancelled (again) today since it’s currently -15.5F. -3.6F [Not so] Chilly.. I’ll be heading … Continue reading

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Doing a re-think on this tinywebdb, going with fusion tables instead

So I spent a bunch of time(more than I would have like) on getting a tinywebdb service running locally on my machine.. What was appealing to me was that data structure as tinydb so thought I could copy the data … Continue reading

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