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Seeking ever more usable surface area in my storage room, I set out to build an extension for the shoe rack that was already in place. My hobby woodworking adventures are documented in the following. But first …
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Marble Gate
Inspired by Wintergatan I designed, 3D-printed and built this Pac-Man Marble Gate. I obviously got the idea for the gate from the Wintergatan videos (here is a live stream where Martin designs the gates for the …
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I needed a better way to store the headphones for my digital piano, because I would just place them on the keyboard, which did not look nice, and they would get in the way when using the built-in speakers. …
Read articlePlot Party November 2021
Two weeks ago I took part in Plot Party, which is a pen plotting art challenge (sort of like a game jam for pen plotter art). I posted a lot on social media, so I thought it would be good idea to consolidate …
Read articleImproving Inkscape Startup Time
While Inkscape is a great vector editor, its startup performance on Windows is terrible, often taking 5 seconds or more to open an empty window on my computer. Investigating the application startup seemed like …
Read articleGeometric Studies on Pen Plotter
Complex shapes emerge from geometric primitives. This is my latest plotter project. Original print time was 21 minutes. The video is sped up 24x. Here is a picture of the final product:
Read articleAdvent of Code 2019 ASCII Art Plot
I got a CNC machine for Christmas, which can also be used as a pen plotter. My first project was this giant ASCII art mashup of my Advent of Code 2019 solutions: Here are some pictures of the final product:
Read articleAdvent of Code Solutions
I enjoy participating in the Advent of Code event every December, which is digital advent calendar challenging you with a two-part programming puzzle every day. In 2019 I aimed for the global leaderboard and …
Read articleDaily Frustrations
I want to work on an assignment for university, that requires LLVM and makes use of their integrated tester (llvm-lit). llvm-lit is written in Python. I have some version of Python 3 installed, so I try to run …
Read articleHard Bugs
A few years ago I stumbled upon my first hard bug. I was working on my custom C++ 2D game engine and had just added the ability to render to an off-screen image. But it was not working well and most of the time …
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