The “Star Wars” fantasy evil empire exists. Not exactly in the form presented in the movies. The evil empire has the sign “WWW”. Yes, the World Wide Web and the internet data system. The epic battle scenes are in cyberspace rather than outer space. On the surface, the empire presents itself to most people as a doer of much good. But it also has a very dark side. A very, very dark side. There is...
Continue reading...Ramblin’ Dan’s 3D Print Design Studio
A new workshop blog from Ramblin’ Dan is about to appear. It will be 3D Print project oriented on a style like my machine shop blogs. It will not be about the tools, but what can be done with them. I’ll publish the link when it moves out of development. Update: It’s up and running http://rd3dpds.com/ As seen in this picture, I am using a Cartesian style 3D printer. My desire is to convert to...
Continue reading...Print a Black Cat
It’s getting close to Halloween. What could be more appropriate than to 3D print a witch’s black cat. I had black ABS plastic loaded for another project so grabbed the file for this cat and let ‘er rip. Takes about an hour and a half at the speed I use, but I don’t have to do anything but watch. Not really a skilled craft as far as I am concerned, but it is fun to...
Continue reading...Ramblin’ Dan’s Store On the Move
After a nice run in the cloud with Amazon Web Service (AWS), Ramblin’ Dan’s Store (RDS) is moving to a new host and new store software. The monthly fees, although low by cloud based standards, were a burden in the overhead costs. That’s the primary reason. Also the commercial based store software required a good bit of maintenance or at least the creators did their best to make it look that way. The store did...
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