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 …
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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 …
Scorpion trike modifications
he trike has been working extremely well as my commuter bike. Especially on slippery roads. Of course plowing through snow …
Scorpion recumbent trike
The last couple of winters were quite cold overhere. We also had much more snow than we’re used to. This trend seems to be due to global warming. This year we already had our first serious snow in November, which is quite early.
About personality traits
The following I posted as a comment on a walden effect blog about personalities. I thought is was worth repeating …
Unicode characters
Additional close-up photos
The picture below on the left shows a close-up of the surface of a carbon fiber and epoxy resin laminate …
Surface energy
When investigating a bonding problem at work, I made this picture of a water droplet resting on a carbon fiber …
Backups
People usually have to learn the hard way that backups are important. For people not familiar with computers it takes time to appreciate the nature of digital data. Digital data is easy and cheap to create and copy, but equally easy to destroy and lose! It is very easy to accidentally delete files.