graphics


We’ve been thinking about getting into 3D printing here at the Hammel household.  I’m looking at building small enclosures for the various embedded boards I work on.  My wife is looking at creating components for the designs she works on for Vindicated Vinyl, her small business.  After doing a bit […]

Getting started with the Robo3D printer and OctoPrint



Back in October I started work on a new app for PiBox: an XM radio player.  The hardware is an XMPCR, a device sold in the early 2000’s that connected over USB to a PC.  The device didn’t last long.  I think there was some concern that people would steal […]

PiBox: XM radio app (PiXM) and wifi scanning in PNC








Here in the armpit of America known as Colorado Springs we have one cable provider, Comcast, at least in the area we live in.  For the past four years we've had Extended Basic Cable service for about $50/month with no cable boxes required.  Two xmas's ago our "big" projection TV […]

Comcast is going bye-bye






I’ve been using the SANE backends with the XSane plugin for GIMP for many years now, but because of digital photography I don’t seem to need the scanner much these days.  When we got the senior photos for my daughter, however, I needed a way to make a few copies […]

Setting up scanners under Fedora 10