Ender 3 v2 Direct Drive and Hotend Upgrade
This is going to be a boring technical post about how I upgraded my Ender 3 v2 3D printer to a lighter print head setup, along with the reasons for doing so. It is...
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Artificial Intelligence in Art and Music
I have to be honest with you, I am not a fan of any of the AI generated art and music I have come across. Art (and I’m just going to lump music under...
The solar-powered outdoor cam experiment
I have several inexpensive Wyze cams (thanks Amazon Prime Day!) I’ve been using these for a few years now to monitor our casita down in Mexico and I plan to use them now to...
Is quantum physics real?
A few weeks ago Sonya and I were talking on the subject of quantum physics, something which has been very much talked about in a book we recently finished reading, American Prometheus: The Triumph...
Indicator gauge jig for table saw alignment
I have a digital indicator that measures to the thousandth of an inch. I purchased it some time back to help level the bed on my 3D printer. Lately, I wanted to use it...
3D Printed Replacement Off-button for a Jointer
Here is a functional print that I’ve been meaning to do for some weeks now. It is a replacement off-button for one of my workshop machines. Two months ago I got a great deal...
A Cross-Country Trip In The Chevy Bolt EV
I recently made my first and perhaps only long distance cross-country trip in my Chevy Bolt. You see, when I purchased the Bolt in 2019 it was with the idea that it would primarily...
Pocket Telephones Are Coming
In the spring of 1919, news out of the Marconi Company—the folks who invented radio, or “wireless telegraph” in the previous decades—was that they were working on a new type of wireless telephone that...
3D Printing with wood fiber PLA
As a woodworker, I like the idea of being able to print with wood fiber embedded filament. A few of the YouTube videos I have watched on the subject have been very creative, notably...
US Tornadoes 1950-2019: A look at what the data may be telling us
A few years back, I was teaching Python to a group of high school students and they wanted to use their newly developed skills with the Matplotlib package to see if climate change was...
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