Bungee Cord Toggles
17 Dec 2011
I have just created my first OpenSCAD design - Bungee Cord Toggles. I don’t actually know if it will print, but will have to wait until my reprap is complete before trying.
I have just created my first OpenSCAD design - Bungee Cord Toggles. I don’t actually know if it will print, but will have to wait until my reprap is complete before trying.
Phase 1 of the build of my RepRap Prusa is now complete and I have photographed it thoroughly, to assist others with their build and for general interest.
I have even taken a brief video, apologies for the lack of lighting:
I was surprised to realise that I have not yet blogged about my latest project - building a Reprap 3D Printer.
I have been following the RepRap project for some time, but it always seemed to me to require hardware hacking skills that were that little bit beyond me.
I just had to remind myself how to scan to OCR, and thought I would share the results.
Before you start, you need to have sane installed, and you also need tesseract-ocr - both should be available in your distros repositories.
I read today that Google and Samsung have unveiled Galaxy Nexus Android 4.
It has been well known that the Android 3.x is not open source yet, but I had expected 3.x to be open sourced at any moment. Now that 4.x has been released and there is still no sign of the 3.x or 4.x source code, I think we have to ask - is Android really open source now?
Remember the announcement that FreeNAS was moving to Debian from BSD? Well today the fruits of that decision have now arrived.
I have finally registered chrisjrob.com for my blog. Please update your bookmarks, feeds, etc.
One of the most wonderful things about the web and open source are that all you need is a computer, an Internet connection, a domain name and a text editor and you can host your own website. The Internet is a great equaliser - a teenager in his/her bedroom truly can reach out to the world with a service that is every bit as good as those created by billion-dollar companies and maybe better.
Until now.
An interesting blog post about ownCloud. ownCloud is a webdav based application allowing you to store files on your own personal server on the Internet and access them via http or webdav.
We all know that feeling when our disk fills up and you are left desperately scrabbling around to find out where your disk space has gone. In a previous blog post I discussed the use of the wonderful Konqueror File Size View, but this is no good for remote servers. Normally I would resort to “du” or the wonderful “find” utility to look for large files, but here is an interesting alternative that I had not come across before: ncdu (ncurses disk usage).