Category: Technology

Posts that are tech related

  • Spotting Fake Phishing Emails

    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

    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?

    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…