by Carlyn Maw on January 29, 2014, no comments
So I’m punting on today’s blog post because I spent last night at CRASH Space’s Member Meeting – Officer Night and when I got home instead of working on the blog post with wistful exhaustion over a fun experience coming to an end, I wrote Arduino code. We all have our coping mechanisms. I leave you […]
by Carlyn Maw on January 26, 2014, no comments
The highlight of Friday for me was the day blending into the evening’s festivities. We held the Tech Disruptor Showcase from 6 to… later than we should have. Barb, Jen and I all got to be in the store at the same time, which was awesome. Between the Cause-And-Effect machine going up, printers being taken […]
by Carlyn Maw on December 20, 2013, one comment
TL;DR Bunnies! Hopping! Okay a little bit more. Thursday I continued the printer/scanner break down that Jen started, removing the metal assembly from it’s plastic case. One of the printer’s circuit boards yielded up more parts at heat gun point, primary target the connectors for the motors. I set up a “nail board” of sorts […]
by Carlyn Maw on April 17, 2012, no comments
TL;DR I’m really glad I went back and tried Wings3D. It is an OpenSource GUI based modeler that is relatively easy to use and intuitive. Documentation is lacking, but there is enough to get started and stay interested. Wings3D also supports the mo…
by Carlyn Maw on April 16, 2012, no comments
TL; DR OpenJsCad is another entry in the “model as programing problem” category. OpenJsCad has more flexibility than OpenSCAD but is currently way less pleasant to use. OpenJsCad embraces dynamic variables. Even the shapes are variables. OpenSCAD …
by Carlyn Maw on April 6, 2012, one comment
TL;DR Blender has one of the steepest learning curves of any software I’ve tried to use in a long time. The climb is worth it for the computer savvy if the end goal is to produce a character model that can be used in animations and printed out as …
by Carlyn Maw on April 5, 2012, no comments
TL;DR Just easy. Well, “just easy” after watching about 20-30 minutes of intro videos. Everything I wanted to be able to do, I could. With options comes complexity; I had to spend some time strategizing how to approach building the model since the…
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