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Optimizing hobby time
There’s never enough time to do everything I want to do. Gotta get up and make a new Seej model. Gotta get that IR-sensing followbot built. Gotta hit the gym. Gotta watch another episode of Breaking...
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Chinese is puzzling.
My Chinese teacher is on vacation this month, so while my spoken proficiency withers on the vine I thought I’d brush up on my geography. Laoshi is visiting Xinjiang, which as I understand it is like...
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Gansu Province Fail
Gansu province fail. It took a few tries before the China Puzzle printed properly with PLA.
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His nibs.
I started using a Wacom Intuos 2 tablet in 1999 after struggling with a mouse-induced repetitive stress injury. I’ve been holding the same stylus pretty much every day, for hours a day, for the last...
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Hack-O-Lantern
Halloween fast approaches, and I still haven’t managed to make that electroluminsencent Riddler costume I’ve been dreaming about for the last two years. But this year I did manage to come up with a...
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Like a Flamingo Among Chickens
Chinese has many set phrases chéngyǔ 成语: four-word phrases that communicate an idea or concept quickly to someone who knows the cultural and historical context of the phrase. Some are really easy to...
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Printing With Steel on the Printrbot Simple
One of the most popular pages on this blog is Calibrating the Printrbot Simple. To be honest I haven’t been using my Simple much lately, what with the hullabaloo surrounding my Barbie-Compatible 3D...
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There Once Was a Project ’bout Venus
December News! Zheng3 has been named a Pinshape 2015 Finalist! If we win, I'll design a tiara and wear it online. Plus, you could win a $100 Amazon Gift card! Righteous. Vote for Zheng3, Robber Rex,...
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Travelers, Part 2
“Zaogao.” Jamming a wheel– again– on a mud-slicked rock, Da Xiong muttered under his breath and wiped his brow with a dirty sleeve. Out here, with no one but his dozing master to hear him, he could...
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