I am currently prototyping an exciting new project with a buddy of mine. I cannot and will not say much but I have the whole code-base done and now I'm just tweaking the color coding, which is SO MUCH FUN!

I am making my own UI from scratch and using nothing but buttons and colors to do it.

FUCK. YES.

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Putting the finishing touches on these wedding pieces. The cube is a mold for an epoxy resin which will be filled with mica flakes and the LED panel will sit on the base plate and the white will act as a diffuser and interface between the case and the cube. I have made a single cube before and it looked incredible in the dark.

Stay tuned!

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I haven't been printing or designing much as I've been hard at work de-clouding our lives with a kubernettes cluster in my rack.

I've got Home Assistant, Jellyfin, and some personal projects up and running with DNS, Cloudflare, SSL TLS, all managed by K3s.

I am building out a 10TB storage node so I can get Immich setup and migrate off Google Photos.... #plans

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I kept getting strong Mario Odyssey so I made some cappy eyes and I cannot stop giggling!

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Poor Bridget is an eater and cannot be trusted to wonder the house when we're out and about so we have recently got her the absolute largest crate we could for her while we're not home.

I am making her a magnetic water bowl that will mount to the side of the crate.

She loves having the bowl in there already and now we won't have to worry about it spilling all over the place.

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So I worked out a modeling technique and with a pattern generating plugin I was able to model and print this structure which printed beautifully and can cover the whole print bed, and is SUBSTANTIALLY stronger than solid PLA would be at the same thickness.

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Anyone who's worked with large prints can tell you that there are limits to what you can get away with successfully and what is a huge waste of plastic. To that end, I always found large solid walls and floors to have poor results.

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This is going to be a nice little door spring for the dog crate so that the door can fail open, that way she can always go and lay down if she wants and will only be closed in if we intentionally want her to be in there.

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Finished! Hopefully the plants like them and thrive in their new permanent homes

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I went back to my self-watering design with the new thread and had something workable in no time. So after a weekend of printing, and forgetting to get any dirt, I'm super pleased with how they came out and how easy it will be to swap water reservoirs when they are low.

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