Truchet tiles in OpenSCAD

I’ve created an OpenSCAD script that generates Truchet tiles. Truchet tiles are square tiles decorated with patterns that are not rotationally symmetric. When placed in a square tiling of the plane, they can form varied patterns. The original Truchet tiles stem from a paper published in 1704 written by a french monk Sebastian Truchet. The […]

Metager no longer free to use

Begin October Metager made an announcement that the “normal” search was no longer possible. Metager is a free and open source meta search engine based in Germany that takes data protection and privacy for their users very seriously. In normal search users could use Metager for free but with the addition of ads in their […]

Spiral Phyllotaxis in OpenSCAD

I just uploaded a video here about Spiral Phyllotaxis patterns in OpenSCAD. The video, originally posted by me on YouTube some years ago, is about a script that I made to demonstrate Spiral Phyllotaxis. Phyllotaxis is a term used for patterns that emerge during the growth of plants. Spiral Phyllotaxis is observed in the heads […]

Community firmware for Squeezebox Touch/Radio/Controller

Besides keeping the Lyrion Music Server (previously Logitech Media Server) up-to-date it’s important to keep your players (or clients) up-to-date too. For the Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Radio and Squeezebox Controller firmware is available that is maintained by the Squeezebox community. This firmware is the work of Squeezebox community members lead by a Squeezebox user named […]

Logitech Media Server becomes Lyrion Music Server

After mysqueezebox.com has shut down, Squeezebox audio player and its server software are still very much alive. Instead of relying on mysqueezebox one has to setup their own media server (which can be done on cheap low end hardware and isn’t as hard a it may seem). Previously the software was called Logitech Media Server […]

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.