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Notes to Father Christmas re 3D Printer Filament

I was doing some research to help Father Christmas fill my request for "some interesting printer filament" in my Christmas stocking. I thought I'd share that research here in case it...

Translate cache descriptions and logs

I recently did a European cycle trip and as described here I made some gpx files of geocaches along my intended route. The trouble is most of the cache descriptions were in German a...

A novel use for a 3D heated printer bed.

My partner came home from his run on Saturday with a box full of baby ducklings he'd rescued from certain death by cat. The mother duck was nowhere to be found. After ringing partner...

Off-line caching along a route

I recently did a European cycle trip and wanted the opportunity to collect a few geocaches along the way. This post and the next one on translation, describe the tools I used to wran...

Drop down and button select menus for Blender Operator add-ons

Note: Examples were tested in Blender 2.71 running on Linux Mint. While making the fancy new interface for my copy2 add-on I needed to work out how to display choices to the user. T...