Software and Programming Archives

Blender Part 2

Previously we looked at the Blender UI, now we need to start creating! A cool aspect for beginners is you can start with primitives …

While in part 2 of this tutorial we touched on how to create objects in Blender, now we want to make them look exactly how we imagine in …

So far I have covered more Arduino/C and even AMOS Basic than anything else, but my main language on the daily is Python, and my main …

Can you build a DIY version of the Elgato Stream Deck? Many people could tell this is what I was building up to. I think we are …

I am in the fun position of having a Raspberry Pi project to build for my day job. It brought to light a familiar challenge of how to …

One of the many productivity-boosters my nerd friends look to is text expanders and keyboard shortcuts. You know, enter a combination of …

We are pretty familiar at this point with the 3D design creation workflow. Drawing, dragging and dropping CAD files using a mouse and a …

Did you ever want to have your return to your office or home announced with a fanfare? Probably not, but let’s do this anyway ;) …

Slack is a hugely popular live group chat system. While a lot of my notifications now go to Discord, as I wrote about here, Slack is …

While Arduino and Raspberry Pi dominate, there are other boards out there for robot builders. One of the best for rapid robot …

I have been writing a lot more about Raspberry Pi than Arduino lately, but don’t get the impression I am leaving the Arduino world …

You may have seen in the Maker Hacks Facebook Group the latest iteration of my Raspberry Pi based entertainment center. It’s now …

Grove sensors are a plug and play way to add sensors, buttons, displays, and actuators to your electronics projects, without soldering. …

Running commands from the shell is all well and good, but what if you don’t want to always be logging into your terminal? What if …

If you are logging in and out of a Linux machine, especially a Raspberry Pi on your local network, it can be a pain to keep entering a …

Here is a shell script that will allow you to kill a script if it is already running #!/usr/bin/env bash ps -ef | grep $1 | awk '{print …

In the previous Discord article we set up a listener, but really that was just the foundation – enough to listen for …

A Discord bot that only SENDS messages is all well and good, but really we want our bots to interact. We need to make them listen and …

I am on a mission to declutter my email. Once you get past the unsubscribe/filter stage, the next thing is to get the important …

A common complaint from Raspberry Pi owners is when running headless (no monitor or keyboard). If the Pi reboots then you lose your …

Unix and Linux are a lot more powerful for automation than people from other operating systems know, that power is under the hood in …

Lots of people ask me about IoT (“The Internet of Things”). It’s a currently warm, if no longer hot, buzzword. …

Formatting round-up posts takes a bit of effort so I have been looking for ways to make the non-creative work as automated as possible. …

In my research for my maker kids kits series, I came across a new gadget from Kano, the makers of the famous Raspberry Pi computing kit. …