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Designing multi-part assemblies, you expect a certain amount of assembly AND disassembly. When the material is from a FDM printer like PLA, assembly and disassembly can weaken and eventually break parts, very common with hinges, clips, and matted faces where you use fasteners like screws to secure two or more parts together. As part of …
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Continuing with the Shooting for charity – building the Hunger Games project, we’ve got a frame to design. Re-focusing on project tenets …and how they apply to the frame: BE FUN It should feel like a carnival game, that means colourful art/design, places to hang rewards/toys/plushies, angled header banner, LED lighting, the works. Also, fun …
Where do we begin? Feeding the mind has always been important to me, whether with knowledge and fun problems, or with food. So when I joined PointClickCare and experienced how much they value giveback initiatives I jumped at the opportunity to start one. FoodOps was born and has been fighting food insecurity in our staff …
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a new year in a new home on a new infra stack same challenges, same pastimes, same me? here’s to 2026 – thanks for sticking around
A couple weeks ago, I presented an internal workshop at PointClickCare as part of a Learnathon – 2 weeks of buffet-style workshops delivered by staff and vendors followed by a 1 week project period akin to a Hackathon. In this session, we covered theory around Kubernetes pod life cycles, along with operator considerations. In the …
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At the time of writing, there are several issues (#1124, #1145, #1173, #1256, #1491) opened into Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere regarding the following error: I encountered it out of nowhere on SW 15.0.1|AMS 1.4.0, but have heard of others facing it as a result of a bad microSD (already tested mine), or as the result of uncleanly shutting …
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There’s many ways to build a circular economy – at Repair Cafe Toronto we do it one fix at a time. Thanks Impact Zero for capturing this journey as I speak to this sustainable art in its prime. Welcome to Sustainability Disruptors, the podcast presented by Impact Zero! Our goal is to have conversations with …
As part of a request by elderly family, here’s a simple 8″x2″x1″ two-part insertion container for tooth brushes and other teeth care tools. Specifically designed to hold denture brushes. Some slight sanding word required at the end, depending on how tight you want it to be. tc-holder-top STL (for 3d printing) IPT (Autodesk Inventor part …
Over the past few years I’ve accepted that if a screen replacement doesn’t require a tear-down of the entire laptop chassis, then it just requires a tear-down of the entire top portion of a laptop chassis. The HP 17-by3063st has changed my mind. I won’t be discussing this laptop in too much detail here, those …
Nothing much to say here, didn’t feel justified spending $10+ just for some plastic caps to protect my telescope from collecting dust and my eyepieces from scratching. 1.25in-adapter-cap STL (for 3D printing) IPT (Autodesk Inventor part file) 1.25in-eyepiece-cap STL (for 3D printing) IPT (Autodesk Inventor part file)
