This post has been a long while coming. I actually finished this quite some time ago but got busy with other things, work, binge-watching anime shows on Hulu, and building a wireless Arduino-based module for controlling a high-watt LED module I intend to use to provide light to the web camera pointed at the printer. […]
Category: Webcam Positioner
This post took a bit longer to get done because I took a bit longer to do it. Wait, that wasn’t helpful. Anyway, I tried something I was pretty sure wouldn’t work and didn’t. I hate being right all the time. Then, in spite of being tired, I rushed to get something simple together and […]
Two short posts in one day, lucky you, my occasional reader. So, this morning I complained that my ball joint was a bust. I mean, yes it worked, but more like a 1984 Yugo than something useful. So I worked on a new design, a more traditional hinge, but I still wanted it to swivel […]
Self-delusion. Crash. The title is a quote from my daughter, when she was 5, in a canoe, in a river, in Hawaii. We were going to paddle up this river to a waterfall or some beautiful spot at the very least. My wife and I hadn’t been canoeing in ages and were having some issues […]
Web Cam Positioner – Ball Joint At the end of my last post I mentioned I was already printing a ball joint. It’s not very big, it’s only intended to hold a web cam after all, so the print finished before I tucked in for the night. First I’d like to note that it printed […]
Preamble (or is it Pre Ramble) I’m experimenting with the format of my blog entries. I want it to be usable and consistent and if at all possible useful, educational and interesting and contribute to ending hunger and creating a lasting world peace but I’d be happy with interesting. I think a section approach is […]