Do you work with laser engravers or CNC machines? Ever find yourself with random pockets/sections that are just blank planes that would benefit from a bit of fun design?
Me too.
So I built a website to define interesting patterns, clip them to arbitrary shapes and also allow for cutouts. I explain it better in my latest video on YouTube
https://youtu.be/qYtSuycVC9sBut also you can sign up and give it a go on my website
Https://www.makergeek.co.uk/patterns/I made this example with it
Have diamond drag bit, will engrave everything.
Since I made this spring loaded diamond drag bit, I've been a menace to any flat surface.
I wrote some custom software to allow generating of dxf pattern files. Pretty happy with it so far. I'm thinking about making it into a web service for generating patterns that can be cut to custom shapes etc
If you're thinking of making random custom stuff for your car, pro move is to buy a colour matched spray paint so you can tone things in nicely.
This is a pair of speakers I made today, laser cut side panels in ply wood then spray painted to match the car. I've now installed these behind the seats. But matching the paint colour really helps make them feel like they belong.
When I started using MQTT for interacting with my robot I worried that I was complicating things. That it would be slow or unreliable. But I'm definitely into the phase where adding capability is super easy because all I have to do is subscribe to topics and publish events.
Similarly, ages ago I built a watch app fort my Garmin that just requests a JSON doc from an endpoint which it then turns into a menu structure where the leaf nodes are URLs to action things.
So this was actually easy to do
I might have been obsessing over a certain game recently. 3d printed a little model which I painted today.
I might have been obsessing over a certain game recently. 3d printed a little model which I painted today.
3 separate motion moves, stitched and matched with a warp, camera tracked and 3d text added.
I'm trying to start practicing actually using my robot cameraman setup to achieve shots and learning enough DaVinci resolv to be able to make use of them in interesting ways. There's a lot to learn.
It's my brain!
I recently had an MRI and I requested the imaging data. Turns out there are some free tools you can use to process it. The brain is the easiest bit to get a good model extracted. Pretty weird that this is possible and this is actually my brain
Many upgrades and tweaks. Movement is now reliable and repeatable if a little jittery. Sensor reliability is still an issue but this is a pretty decent rendition of the motion planned in blender using it's armature IK
Watched a YouTube video this morning by black beard projects in which he made a massive workbench from an old surface plate. He made levelling feet from bolts with a machined foot and welded but m retaining nut. Seemed like a good idea and I copied it this afternoon whilst making a stand for my washing machine.
