Diary of a Technocratic Anarchist

Last month, Adrian incorporated some ideas for using pixel maps that I'd used years ago with Tommelise 1.0 into what I understand is h...

I was able to shuffle around image files and, starting from the top of the slices {a "sky" slice that is taken above the print ob...

I had a bit of code cleaning to do to prepare for putting tops and bottoms on a infilled solid.  Of course, it took longer than I expected...

Slice and Dice processes perimeters, infill and the raft separately as gcode.  Because of that, to create a print file of gcode I had to wr...

I had to go back and do some cleaning up in the raft generation coding. Mostly that entailed porting the latest infill code from the objec...

I was able to fully test the perimeter vectorisation code at lunch today.  Here is the test print. The infill, done earlier, is to the u...

When using a image processing approach to slicing and dicing when one extracts the perimeter of a curved boundary one is faced with an aval...

I decided to separate the infill and perimeter routines. The main reason for doing that was that I found that with image processing of ob...

It is hard to find time to hare after all of the potential research directions implicit in the Reprap undertaking. As a result of that, I...

I wrote a routine that serially checks paths and reverses them, if necessary, to minimize the travel distance between one path and the next...

I wanted to do a direct translation of my XML format to gcode instead of breaking it into perimeters and infill as I had it before. The wa...

Luckily, I was able to isolate the alignment problem to a loose y-axis belt pulley. You can see that the alignment is perfect this time....

... it's socially unacceptable. Slice and Dice is my code, however, and when I want to try something new I can just dive into the co...

Skeinforge continues to exhibit bizarre behaviour when you use the multiply feature. All that was changed between these two runs was the ...

This has been a pretty frustrating week.  Last week I got a long way towards evolving a thin-walled approach to making post-tensioned, comp...

Has anybody seen anything like this before? Skeinforge processes the STL properly but crashes when it tries to export the BfB file.  I...

Some time ago, Nophead {Chris Palmer} suggested that I use microstepping instead of gearing to get the resolution that I need in using the h...

Back in the late 1960s when I was very young and worked for IBM for a few years there was a magnetic tape that always lay beside the operato...