I’ve been recently looking into building custom drones for a light show. A drone light show is a fleet of drones with lights that fly synchronously to display an image or animation in the sky. Each drone has a GPS tracking device to ensure proper distance and movement. One central base station on the ground…
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Enhancing Impact with Screenshots and Animations
inserting screenshots to get your point across effectively is hard. And after I’ve played around with a few different methods in attempts to improve that, I think I’ve significantly improved it…
3D Printing an RC Plane
I spent about three weeks working on 3D printing an RC plane. I had initially searched for a somewhat easy RC plane to print and assemble as I’ve never had any experience with RC vehicles in general. I eventually found a good model that was both free and looked simple enough for me to be…
Using a DSLR Camera with Octolapse for Stunning 3D Printing Timelapses
Recently I bought a used Canon SL1 camera; it’s an old but great camera to use as a webcam or any general-use camera taking. One benefit is that it works with a lot of software using the USB port to capture a live video feed from the camera. When using the USB port it does…
Optimize Invoice Management with Google Sheets, Make.com, and Monday.com
When a button is pressed inside monday.com, the invoice generation process starts…
Spotting Fake Phishing Emails
Yesterday I checked my Gmail spam folder, and I saw this email: The contents of the email are a general threat of a typical phishing email with the following: It threatened to lock your various email accounts and asked for $950 sent to a BTC wallet. This is a pretty obvious scam in many ways,…
Tuning Acceleration on my 3D Printer
Yesterday I got my Printrbot Simple Metal plus running, I had gotten it previously running, but it had significant build issues, mainly with no ease of access of the motherboard, when I designed the adapter for the SKR 1.4 motherboard to fit into the old Printrbot motherboard slot, I had no way of accessing the…
ChatGPT for Learning Programming?
I am honestly amazed by some of the technology. Using the power of this AI and my knowledge of basic programming, I could build a script that did all of the tasks I had before listed and display them to my display. And this was the result, a working screen display for my desk:
Upgrades for my Ender-3
I finally got around to fixing and upgrading my Ender-3. I’ve had my Ender3 for almost 2 years now and have occasionally been upgrading when needed. Last year I made my best upgrade to the “silent board” TMC2208 stepper drivers. Which significantly silenced the noise of the printer when printing. As well as a BL…
Upgrading My 3D Printer Motherboard
Recently I bought a new 3D printer motherboard; this motherboard is used to compute and control the motors, heaters, and fans for the average 3D printer. I purchased this motherboard to learn how to program a printer from scratch. A significant upgrade from this motherboard is swappable TMC drivers. TMC drivers are basically what provide…