OpenScad Wedge
Just a quick post. Unfortunately, OpenScad does not have a wedge. This basically is a cylinder that you can pick how many degrees of the circle to draw. There are […]
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Neopixel Display
A few weeks ago, I went ahead and made a display for Christmas (and Halloween at the time). It was a pretty big hit. It may not be the first […]
Cheap, reliable serial cables for arduino pro mini programming
I have below instructions on how to get a cheap raspberry pi serial cable to run on an arduino pro mini 5v. The background I recently got in to arduinos. […]
XYZPrinting Da Vinci Printer Calibration
I recently bought a da Vinci 3D printer for my wife. We’ve been having a little fun with that, but it was having issues printing a lot of the initial […]
Chef Lessons Learned
This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a […]
Enterprise Java Development Made Easier with Vagrant, Maven, and Chef
Languages in the Java-verse have a really cool artifact management system: maven. This can be handy for Software teams because you can use a local repository for vagrant and a […]
Java 7’s Little Engine That Could
Today is just a bit on a funny effect of Java 7’s way of doing try-with-resource scoping. Consider the following partial class for a poolable autoclosong resource:
Smart Vagrantfiles
Vagrant and chef are two amazing programs. Since chef’s DSL is just ruby, you have the ability to make very intelligent recipes. One thing few people realize, is that Vagrant […]