dxftools
Introduction
The purpose of the ‘dxfgerber’ program is to generate optimized DXF files for processing on a Gerber cutting machine …
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Writing speed on FreeBSD 9-RELEASE-p3 amd64
Now that I’ve switched to FreeBSD 9.0, I thought I’d repeat the write speed test I did …
py-stl / stl2pov
Note
The Python version of this program has been renamed to stltools. The version on this page is therefore out …
lamprop
(tl;dr: download the latest version from github.)
Introduction
The purpose of this program is to calculate some properties of …
An autumn commute
The photos on this page were taken on a lovely day in the autumn, when I was cycling to work for a late shift. This is a bit of a scenic route, about 2 km longer than the shortest route. But on such a beautiful day I like taking this detour.
Riding a pair of Scorpion Trikes
I’ve been riding a HP Velotechnik Scropion trike since December 2010. When my sister Mae came over from New …
Business trip to Shanghai
The photos on this page have been taken during a business trip in and around Shanghai (上海) in May …
A new STL convertor added
In addition to
stl2pov, I’ve now written a program that writes a shaded projection of the STL file (along …stl2pov rewrite
On 2011-04-04 I re-wrote my parser for STL files in Python. The original C parser was 411 lines (excluding comments …
Learning Python
Over the years I’ve heard a lot about the Python programming language. Now I have decided to start and …