Recently my brother (Simeon) had wanted to figure out some way to make podcast editing easier by assigning certain keys to do commands. I had a keypad lying around from some projects and let him use it to make key shortcuts for his editing work. Adobe Audition has a great GUI for changing the key binds, so he assigned one of the keys to bleep out a bad word and another one for effects. It worked out great. So far, he has only assigned three. Here is the final result: https://www.instagram.com/stories/master_sims/2527950079156282313/
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Frostbite – 3D Print
Yesterday I 3D printed a prop from Krunker. Krunker is an online video game 1st person shooter. The item I was printing is called a Frostbite. It looks similar to an ax. Krunker has Mod files so that others can modify the game like sounds, models, colors, etc. It also has 3D models called OBJ files for the weapons and accessories, but the problem was is that all of the OBJ files were named “Melee_0,” “Melee_1,” etc. It didn’t have notes or anything that suggested what was what. So I DM’d my friend who makes a lot of 3D models and worked with Krunker on them, and I asked him if I could get the “Frostbite” 3D model, and he responded with the correct file, which made it a lot easier for me (Link to his Youtube Channel.)
Now all I had to do is upload it to the slicer. So that’s what I did. When using Krunker models in 3d prints, I noticed that they are tiny when imported straight to the slicer, so I scaled it up using the built-in tool that Cura (my slicer) comes with. So I sliced it, and surprisingly, the estimated time that it was gonna take was about 3 hours and 40 minutes. But after about an hour in, the print came completely off of the board. So I stopped the print, cleaned off the board, and sprayed some hairspray on it. Then I started the print again. It looked to be doing well. Still, after the first 2 hours, it warped on the handle, Unfourtanitly this has been happening a lot recently to most of my 3D prints, so I will probably have to adjust the nozzle temperature or the bed temperature lower or higher, I am not yet certain which. I will probably do a blog post on that in the future.
Once the print was finished, I had removed it from the board and checked it. It went pretty well except for the warping on the handle. Soon I will paint it with acrylic paints and give it some modge-podge to finish it off, which I will post a picture on Instagram once it is finished. If you want to see the finished product follow me using this link: Instagram
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HorseShoe (private)
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- Horseshoes were invented because the horse’s feet would get cracked when being in a stall for too long
- The first invention of the horseshoe was made of leather then after a time it was made out of iron like today
- The horseshoe was even used as money for trading because it was made out of copper/iron
- One of the first people to invent the horseshoe was a Christian
- The invention took a while before most people used it on a regular basis
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Octoprint (Pt 1) Wifi Problems – Raspberry Pi Project
A while back, I did a blog post on installing Octoprint for the first time. Since then, I had mostly not done much with it until recently when I heard that you could use a Raspberry Pi touchscreen and connect it to the raspberry pi and by using a plugin, you can create a small touchscreen panel which you can use to monitor the temp, time left, etc. I did some digging around my drawers and found two TFT LCD screens that my brother Nicholas repurchased a while. So I formatted an SD card and downloaded the image from the site. After flashing, I had to open the WPA_Supplicant file which is a wifi config and setup file. After I was done I loaded the SD card onto the Raspberry Pi, but I ran into some issues, the Raspberry Pi wouldn’t connect to my wifi. After a lot of looking at Octoprint forums, I tried several different things including reinstalling the OS and downloading it again. But none of it worked, one thing I saw on a furom was maybe that the router had a setting enabled which made it so the Raspberry Pi couldn’t connect. So I plugged in our second older router, and after running through the config and setup it was ready, I edited the WPA_Supplicant file to connect to the other router instead of the main one and then plugged in the raspberry Pi and surprisingly it connected! So at the moment of me writing i am figuring out how to use a TFT touchscreen with Octoprint and I will make a follow up post when I’m finished.