Trying to get my nerd on…
My Dell C6100 server arrived today. I worked from home all day so I could be here for the UPS guy but the joke was on me: he didn’t show up until almost 5...
Tag: Open Source
Shapeoko 3 Assembly – Part 2
I ended up helping a friend with his computer for a while yesterday so I didn’t get as much done on my Shapeoko 3 as I wanted. But I did get some stuff do...
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...
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...
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...
3D Printer Ordered
I’m not sure why, but I just bought a 3D printer kit. One of the bloggers that I follow just bought a Prusa i3 clone from China for a pretty good price an...
Possible New Z Axis Design for the ShapeOko
I’ve been thinking about how to upgrade the Z Axis on my ShapeOko for a while now and I finally started drawing up some stuff in Inventor. As a side note,...