OpenSCAD parametric hook

Parametric design of a simple hook in, the free and open source, OpenSCAD. Use with the Customizer in OpenSCAD

Solvespace: involute gear

In this Solvespace new series of video tutorials I’ll demonstrate how to create an involute gear, adjust an existing involute gear and demonstrate how one involute gear drives another.

OpenSCAD: Polygon and polyhedron

OpenSCAD allows the user to create complex shapes with the polygon function for 2D and polyhedron for 3D. Polygon and polyhedron both accept a list of 2D and 3D coordinates (points) respectively as parameters. A functions can generate a list of points eliminating the need to manually created these lists. This property can be used […]

I’m leaving YouTube

In this post I’ll explain my reasons to leave YouTube. My videos will be available on PeerTube and new videos will be added there.

The Movim social network

Movim is a social network based on XMPP that lets you chat, blog and setup a news feed. I’m using it for two years now and I wanted to share some of my experience..

Freedom in the Cloud (eleven years later)

Eleven years after Eben Moglen’s speech Freedom in the Cloud I’m looking back at was has been achieved in ethical social networking.

Linux on a 17 year old laptop

A few years ago I wrote about my IBM Thinkpad happily running Puppy Linux. The laptop is still running fine but now with AntiX.

Lemmy, the federated alternative of Reddit

In this post I write about my experience with the link aggregator Lemmy.

The exciting roadmap of PeerTube version 3.

Framasoft published a roadmap for version 3 of Peertube and you can contribute.

DeGoogle my life

According to Wikipedia to DeGoogle is the act of removing Google from your life. As the growing market share of the internet giant creates monopolistic power for the company in digital spaces, increasing numbers of journalists have noted the difficulty to find alternatives to the company’s products. This is my experience to purge my life of Google and I can assure you it’s difficult but if we don’t act soon it will become impossible.