This is a small blog where I talk about tech, from servers to CNC. That is all.
About
I’m an occasional systems administrator who prefers self hosting over pay hosting or many ad driven services. I’m also a Java and C developer and engineer with a background in 3d design and an interest in 3d printing, lasers, etc. I also have no idea how to blog (sorry for the inconsistent updates, they are unlikely to change). This blog is also all human written, and will continue to be.
Blog
Getting Text into a Catia Part
How to Engrave Your CATIA V5 Model put text into cat drawing save as dxf reopen in catia copy pasta into part drawing
Printing Perfect Scale Mail
I got some tri-color filament that would be really cool to print out as scale mail, so I found a promising looking model, and gave it a go, but I didn’t like the results, and so we go on the print profile optimization journey to printing out perfect looking scale mail.
Roomba Brain Surgery
After learning that the original Roomba models have an open serial port with a fully documented API, I just had to try out using it. I pulled the lid off my old Roomba 670 to try and avoid breaking any plastic clips and right there it was, the serial port ripe for the hardware hacker. …