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I recently ran out of disk space and wanted to find out for sure what would be the biggest bang-for-the-buck to archive onto an external drive.  Came across TreeSize.  It has a free option and some paid options.  The free option seems to be sufficient for my needs....

Converting 2D to 3D

You would think it was simple to extrude a 2D black & white image into 3D space.  I tried a number of avenues.  They all pretty much have two large steps: 1) Provide a vector file like SVG or DXF and 2) Extrude in a 3D. I tried out a number of 3D modeling...

Working with Flora

Flora is the name given to Adafruit's "wearable" microcontroller.  What it really means is that it has some large holes that can be used for sewing to clothing and such.  Adafruit provides a number of lessons, one of which introduces you to this tech....

First thoughts on OpenSCAD

SketchUp is what I have been terming the "Programmer's Maya".  But I just came across a modeling program that truly deserves that title - OpenSCAD. OpenSCAD is pretty much only useful for 3D prints - you would not want to use it for modeling a room, for example. It...