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OpenSauce 2025: My homebrew lightpainting hardware and how it's evolved over the years in 2 hours
Appearing at OpenSauce 2025 When I broke "the board" I’d always wanted to design my own circuit boards but I never got truly motivated until I broke “the board”. Let me explain... Normally when you have a birthday party and a friend brings some random junk from her husband’s work, you’d probably…

Switching power on and off 1 month ago
Physical power switches are easy. Except that good physical power switches that can handle real power aren't so easy. They tend to be big and clunky and expensive. If you appreciate good design, I guess you could say they are a real turn-off. If you are already setting up transistors to turn LEDs…

Literature review of NASA NTRS truss papers 1 month ago
Why do a review of NASA papers on trusses? Well, because trusses are cool, for a variety of reasons. In buildings, they became one of the trademarks of the late modernist architecture period, representing "cool" and making the prior brutalist or streamlined or art deco or merely modern buildings…

Step 7: Voron Print Farm 4 months ago
This update covers many months of using the printer, working on things, etc. Including a giant burst of printing to get everything together for the Maker Faire and also some periods where the printer sat idle and not-quite-functional because I had to go to funerals and things. General improvements…

Can we not have our 3D printers be like 2D printers? 5 months ago
In all of the arguments of late about Open Source and 3D printers and whatever Bambu Labs or Prusa might be doing with 3D printers and whatnot, I guess what I'd really like is for our 3D printers to not end up like 2D printers. Now, when I say 2D printer, I mean some things, none of them very…