How much progress have you made since last time? What new ideas have you stumbled upon, what old ideas have you abandoned? What new projects have you started? What are you working on?
Once again, feel free to share anything you’ve been working on, old or new, simple or complex, tiny or huge, whether you want to share and discuss it, or simply brag about it - or just about anything you feel like sharing!
The monthly thread is the place for you to engage /c/programming_languages on things that you might not have wanted to put up a post for - progress, ideas, maybe even a slick new chair you built in your garage. Share your projects and thoughts on others’ ideas, and most importantly, have a great and productive month!
I started down the path of creating a gear library for Full Control, a 3D printing system. I got sidetracked by a couple of problems:
I’m apparently not smart enough to create something from scratch.
Existing libraries are either beyond my ability to use directly or, like OpenSCAD, generating fully realized models intended for traditional slicers.
I was hoping to be able to do a variety of gear types, but I think I’m going to have to be satisfied with just spur gears.
In any case, I’ve set it aside until next winter. Spring is coming, so I need to finish my website work before my other hobbies take over my life.
(Actually, Full Control might be better described as a 3D plotting system, since the Z axis is as continuously variable as the X and Y axes.)