Shapeoko 3 Assembly – Part 1
I got to work on my Shapeoko 3 for about 2-1/2 hours this evening and I got the plates mostly assembled. I had one bolt and nut that would not go together at al...
Author: Timothy Foreman
Shapeoko 3 Has Arrived
I worked from home this afternoon so that I could be here to take delivery of my Shapeoko 3. It arrived about 1:00. I immediately opened the box and took some p...
My Shapeoko 3 Is On The Way!
In other “I have too many hobbies” news, my Shapeoko 3 has shipped and will arrive on Wednesday! Exciting!
Serious Server Upgrades On The Way
I’ve had a server in my basement on the internet since about 1998. Back then I was running a website and email server on a Pentium 133 over a 1024/768 kbs...
X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
All the web sites hosted on my server now include this extra header in the HTTP response: X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett This is why. Life is a bugger.
Sidecar Adventures: Some Hack Hackery
On Thursday I drove the sidecar to work. After work I drove it to a friend’s house where we had a BBQ and played some games. About 9:30 in the evening I w...
528i Angel Eyes Achieved!
Yesterday afternoon I decided to buckle down and make the angel eyes work. I redid all the wiring, making it cleaner. The internet told me that there would be a...
528i Parking Light Madness
After the front end of the 528i got smashed in it needed new headlights, so I bought a set of aftermarket lights with Angel Eyes in them. I didn’t want to...
The 3D Printer Assembly Photos
This will mainly be a photo dump with some comments. The 3D printer arrived last Thursday and I assembled it on Thursday and Friday evening. All told it probabl...
Broadcom B43 WiFi card under Linux (Mint and others)
The Dell Lattitude series of laptops (D630, D830, others) use the Broadcom 43xx series WiFi cards. These have firmware that is proprietary and needs special voo...