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Are You Making Soldering More Difficult than Necessary?

Soldering. Love it, hate it, tolerate it, but if you are into electronics, learn to do it. Are you making it more difficult for yourself than it needs to be?

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Which Glowforge to Buy? Glowforge Basic Versus Glowforge Pro

Glowforge reviews like mine have convinced you to buy the Glowforge over other options such as Full Spectrum, Trotec, or a more DIY solution. That’s great! But which Glowforge should you buy? …

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Linux Automation Tip: Repeat Commands with Loops and Delays

Unix and Linux are a lot more powerful for automation than people from other operating systems know, that power is under the hood in Macosx (via the BSD Unix foundations) and that power is making its …

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Adding a GPU with Powered PCIe Risers

Adding a GPU (graphics card) to your PC, but not enough space or full length slots available? a great solution is to use a "Powered PCIe Riser".

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How to Automagically Create Thumbnail Images Using Python

On my blog at Steemit I have been posting roundups of the best links I have found, either on Steemit itself, or around the web. Formatting these posts takes a bit of effort so I have been looking for …

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ABS Octopi Pi Zero Case

In Defence of ABS

ABS gets a rough rap in the 3d printing community, so I wanted to give a small defence of ABS filament for your 3d printer consideration …

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How to Use Tinkercad to Make a Custom Gift – a Personalized 3D Printed Maze Puzzle

In this beginner-friendly 3d cad tutorial, we are going to create a personalized maze puzzle in Tinkercad, ready for 3d printing!

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Meshmixer Tutorial – Using Meshmixer to Delete and Edit Parts of an Existing .STL

Using Meshmixer takes your 3D printing superpowers to the next level. Find an existing STL file, modify it, delete parts, and then export for 3D printing - See how easy it can be in this tutorial and …

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3D Printing Tip: Quick and easy filament 3D printer spool holder

3D printing filament spool holders have often been a pain. Most don’t work well in practice, and can take too much time to make. In this video, Ben shows how to make one that takes seconds to …

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Easy Modifications of Downloaded STLs with Simplify 3D

Simplify 3D is a great slicer, but it can do more than just slice. While we are big fans of CAD software, if you just need to make simple dimension changes S3D has got you covered. Check out this …

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