Ok, so now you have you GPU humming away and you want to know what the frack it is doing.
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I decided to mess around with cryptocurrency mining for fun. I don’t expect to make any money, and you shouldn’t either, but if you want to know more about it, mining is a good way to go. I hit a few snags along the way though, and this might help you get past them a bit faster.
This is a hedgehog I made for my sister in solidworks and printed on the afinia.
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For my senior design project I messed around with some depth mapping by taking a photo using two cameras at different points. The patterns projected are an effort by me to help give the program something to compare.
The image is a bit confusing, and was taken with a camera, but the basic idea is that red items in the right image are closer.
While a 40W CO2 laser can’t cut through Ti, it can oxidize the surface and give you some cool colors.
I wanted to make a housewarming gift for my cousin and decided to make paper craft versions of his four cats. In the end, I only finished one and got halfway through the second, but the one that I finished didn’t turn out too bad.
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Solidworks isn’t the best for more “artistic” designs, but you can learn a lot about the tools available by trying something diffrent.
This project ended up being a failure, in that I realized that the weight of the legs was just going to be too high for any practical method of driving it, but was a success in that I learned quite a bit.
Ooooooo, shiny!
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I am a big fan of modularity, sometimes to a fault, so when I was thinking about making D&D boards the choice was obvious. Unfortunately, These were not particularly well thought out. If you look at the rounded corner pieces below, you will see that they were designed as if the curve was even throughout the wall, which is just silly.
I wanted to do a recursive heart pattern for a valentines day card. I think it turned out fairly well.
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