Taking a look at ManifoldCAD

I’ve been taking a brief look at ManifoldCAD, a 3DCAD program in the style of OpenSCAD that runs in the browser and uses Javascript. ManifoldCAD is a relative new project from Emmet Lalish. It’s free and open source software (Apache-2.0 license). In case you are not familiar with these kind of CAD programs, instead of […]

Playing Rusted Warfare

Rusted Warfare

I’m currently playing a lot of Rusted Warfare, an RTS game from a small Indie developer named Luke. Since the nineties I’ve always been a great fan of real time strategy games. Back then I played Command & Conquer (1995), Seven Kingdoms (1997) and Warcraft 2 (1995) with it’s clean graphics but what really blew […]

My favorite free and open source software

A list of my favorite FLOSS programs for the PC (mostly) divided into several categories.

Twisted Vase in OpenSCAD

In this blog post I’ll continue a previous post about polyhedron in OpenSCAD. Now we create something more exiting, a twisted vase.

When to use Friendica over Mastodon

When my Mastodon instance was down I took another shot at Friendica. Here are my thoughts about it.

Compress videos with FFmpeg

Comparing compression results of a video using FFmpeg.

Lithophane creator for 3d printing

Create a lithophane from your own photo using the Customizer of OpenSCAD.

To improve Funkwhale

Funkwhale is a social platform to enjoy and share music. As part of the Fediverse Funkwhale is not only an audio server and player, it aspires to be a place for socializing around music and discovering new content. Below are some tips for the developers to improve Funkwhale.

A curved 3d printed lithophane in OpenSCAD

Creating a 3d printable lithophane in OpenSCAD is relatively easy. But in this post we use a trick to create a curved lithophane.

Peddle wheel boat (3D printed)

I found an example on Thingiverse, a rubber band powered boat with two peddle wheels, but it has two problems. First of all the author only provides .stl files and second the design is a bit flawed. I therefore decided to design the boat from scratch with the 3d CAD program OpenSCAD. With OpenSCAD I’m […]