A while back, I spent time with some friends, playing board games outside by candlelight. It was the afternoon and getting dark. Someone brought out a candle with three wicks, and someone else in the group absolutely lost their mind at the sight of it. “What is that!? That’s the biggest candle ever! How is …
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Automating Tedious Tome Farming In Lost Ark
Cheesy automation for farming low-level collection quests with simple programming. I don’t play Lost Ark anymore, but this post has been on my TODO for quite a while. Automating the Grind There’s an MMORPG game called Lost Ark. It has a problem in that simple (Tome) collection quests involve grinding for a handful of hours. …
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Labels For Metric Screws
A while back, I started throwing away tackle boxes that my metric screw sets came in and started converting them to a labeled drawer system. Recently these machine screws have been added to the GitHub collection. SVGs are available from GitHub.Made in Inkscape. Many Screw Variations In a previous life, a hobby of mine was testing …
A Few Things On Lying Videos
I feel like I don’t use this blog for what I originally intended it to be. But, instead of letting it stagnate, I’ll do the next best thing: filler content! But between Kickstarter recommendations and musings of how fashionable duct tape purses are for men, I think the need for pointing out the existence of …
When Meetings Are A Joke
“Meetings, Bloody Meetings”, a 30-minute movie from 1976 starring Monty Python’s John Cleese. It’s something between a comedy, a tragedy, and business acumen training.
YouTube Famous in France
No, I’m not really (obviously). But, a French YouTuber, L’Effet 3D, whose channel is all about time-lapses of 3D prints, was kind enough to choose one of my remixed prints for a timelapse.
PyCharm Debugger Cheatsheet
Recently I’ve needed to commit PyCharm debugging shortcut keys to muscle memory. I’m still not there yet because I’m very hard-wired to Visual Studio’s shortcuts – and admittedly it’s an uphill battle. But until then, I’ve made myself a cheat sheet. If you plan to print it out then use the PDF since that has …
RadioShack Engineering Notebooks
Lately, I’ve been on a tech nostalgia kick. For example, I’ve been buying old software from eBay and reliving them on virtualized Windows 95 and Windows 2000 machines. Along with software, I’ve also been looking at really old technical books. For example, stuff by Alan Holden; they’re absolute gems. While reading Alan’s book about growing …
Making a Clover v2 RepRap
A few years ago, I planned on making a RepRap from ThingiverseA RepRap is a 3D printer (or other types of CNC machines) designed to be made by DIYers and hobbyists.The one I chose was the Clover v2 printer. It’s a delta printer. I printed the various 3D printable parts and then bought the other …
Tomorrow’s Build on YouTube
There’s a new YouTube channel for future technologies in construction called Tomorrow’s Build. It’s created and narrated by Fred Mills (from The B1M), with Adam Savage (of MythBusters fame, I assume) as a producer. Their first video came out about two weeks ago, and it’s a topic I’m excited to see gain wider adoption in …