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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

Sun January 29, 2017 in Art and Graphics / Education / Fedora / Hardware / Raspberry Pi tagged 3D printer / debian / Fedora / GIMP / graphics / Linux / printing / Raspberry Pi / sd card / USB camera (updated 437 days ago)

If you’re interested in the whole copyright law issue that seems to be the backbone (or spineless) matter for the DMCA, you gotta watch this little 10 minutes video. It’s called “A Fair(y) Use Tale”. It explains it all. With a chuckle. Just don’t try to follow the scenes. Just […]

What is fair use (or how I laughed at the ...

Mon May 21, 2007 in Art and Graphics / Education / Politics / TV / Video tagged Video (updated 6555 days ago)

I’ve been playing around with Wink to create Flash-based tutorials on the GIMP. My goal is to put some of these tutorials on my upcoming book’s companion web site. I created my first tutorial, mostly as a proof of concept for myself. It shows how you can make basic shapes. […]

Experimenting with Wink: Flash tutorials for GIMP

Wed January 17, 2007 in Art and Graphics / Education / GIMP / Linux tagged GIMP / graphics (updated 6679 days ago)

This is pretty cool. I just saw on Slashdot about MIT’s Introduction to Copyright Law course, which is free and part of the Open CourseWare Consortium. This is an interesting idea, offering college level courses for free over the Internet. What’s even more inviting is that universities like MIT, Notre […]