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The first “real world” project on the Pocket NC was to create 2 replacement Oilite bushes for the mains powered Synchron motor in a 1940’s Kit Cat Clock.

Following on from a previously outlined move to Deno I’ve now moved to Bun 😅 The main thing I moved to Deno for was a nice way to acheive: A single executable binary via Deno Compile.

I took some time during the holiday to get the Minitel I inherited from the parents-in-law connected to my home server.

A second attempt at the tutorial from Penta was reasonably successful.

Over a long duration I finally constructed the Pocket NC enclosure.

Before getting serious with the Pocket NC V2-50CHK, I want to build an enclosure for it.

The first chips have been produced on my new pride and joy, the Penta Machine’s Pocket NC V2-50CHK!

More than 20 years ago, in the ‘dotcom’ era, I worked for the web design agency Razorfish and managed to get involved in a more exciting gig working for a hardware spin-off developing the Pogo Mobile.

I’ve held onto the hard copy of my Electrical Engineering Thesis for around 25 years.

Life is all about incremental steps forward.

Presenting a set of template Rust, WASM and Deno projects on GitHub which make use of GitHub Actions and Workflows for continuous integration.

A new feature release version of Legify is available at: https://github.com/vectronic/freecad-legify-macros/releases/tag/v0.4.0 This provides a new legify-technic-pin macro which renders a technic pin onto an existing Part Design workbench body.

I ordered some 3D prints of bricks designed with the legify macro code available at: https://github.com/vectronic/freecad-legify-macros Presented below are two assemblies as rendered within FreeCAD and assembled in real life.

A new feature release version of Legify is available at: https://github.com/vectronic/freecad-legify-macros/releases/tag/v0.3.0 Beyond a number of measurement improvements, rendering of technic pins is now implemented.

I have just completed the finishing touches on Technic pin support: There were a few potholes encountered on the journey and as always, they were solved with excellent community support: Behaviour of Object.Tip with PartDesign LinearPattern Particular Ass…

I’ve been developing a FreeCAD macro for a while which uses the PartDesign workbench: https://github.com/vectronic/freecad-legify-macros I’m just wrapping up support for rendering technic pins (work in progress screenshot below) and this effort has led me…

I reached a milestone last weekend with a successful render of a brick assembly in FreeCAD.

Presented here is a somewhat terse step-by-step guide to installing a working version of FreeCAD 0.19 on macOS Big Sur using Conda.

The plan for Flowscripter has always included the following goals: Use TypeScript.

A bugix version of Legify is available at: https://github.com/vectronic/freecad-legify-macros/releases/tag/v0.2.2 It provides improvements to measurements and rendering based on using the macro generated parts in Assembly V4 and TechDraw workbenches.

Last year I provided some FFmpeg patches to support ICC Profiles stored within MP4 (and MOV) files.

The latest and most likely last version of Legify is available at: https://github.com/vectronic/freecad-legify-macros/releases/tag/v0.2.0 I’ve achieved my goals with this project, which were to: Get to grips with FreeCAD and parametric modelling concepts:…

As part of my efforts to accurately model Lego bricks, I need to visualise the finer features of Lego pieces and measure various dimensions accurately.

Googling for “excel timecode” didn’t produce any results which met my requirements: support 29.97 drop-frame SMPTE timecode calculate a duration given an in-point and out-point provide conversion to and from timecode, frame count and microseconds not based

I have moved on from learning basic part design and scripting in FreeCAD and now want to tackle assemblies.

My first serious microscopic soldering project took place over the weekend!

Presented here is a somewhat terse step-by-step guide to building FreeCAD from source using Conda and the Conda Forge feedstock for FreeCAD.

I finished the DIY fit-out of my lab/office/study late last year.

I’ve been developing a FreeCAD macro for a while with the following aims: Get to grips with FreeCAD and parametric modelling concepts: sketches, constraints, datum planes etc.

There are several limitations when referencing items in FreeCAD via Python script.

I’ve been developing a fairly complex macro for FreeCAD and wanted to re-run it after making code changes without having to restart FreeCAD.

Beyond simple scripts, FreeCAD macro development really benefits from using a Python IDE.

This website is built using Hugo and deployed on Netlify.

Google Analytics tracking of internal links within your own website is super-simple.

I’ve been developing a fairly complex macro for FreeCAD and wanted to split the code out into a module with separate files.

I’ve been writing a Python macro for FreeCAD as a learning exercise on both subjects.

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