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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/qYtSuycVC9s
But 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.
@clolsonus fwiw I run mosquito MQTT in a docker container on a little Linux server that sits on my desk.
Along with the containers for home assistant and everything else.
If I wanted to make it accessible from the internet I'd just need to allow that port in at the router and port forward it to the Linux box.
One of the other containers I run is managing dynamic DNS, it checks the external IP associated with my home and updates my DNS records in route53 accordingly.
@clolsonus what do you want to connect and where would you host the MQTT server?
@clolsonus in my case I'm running everything locally in my house. There is no reason why very disparate things couldn't communicate over a common MQTT server, so long as they are each able to connect to the server. The clients each connect out to the server so long as they can resolve the address and hit the port they could be anywhere. I was actually considering publishing a public DNS for my control server so my watch would work even when I'm not at home. Pretty simple routing job.
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.
@MisterMaker I tried blender, but I have a hell of a time getting as good of a result from the camera tracker. I honestly prefer blender to actually work in. I'm sure I'll end up doing a mix.