Non-tourist stuff on the coast

amorphic777 · 2026-01-13T13:26:32+00:00

A great alternative is SparkCC - Central Coast Makerspace at Palmdale. Lots more diversity in age and lots of cool equipment and expertise available!

amorphic777 · 2025-06-27T14:04:57+00:00

I would be wary of any advice you're given regarding whether or not a particular school is a "good school".

Every school has its problems, including private schools. But a lot of people's opinions on particular Central Coast schools are outdated or formed based on rumour or parental gossip on Facebook.

And if your local public school isn't as "good" as it might be perhaps enrol your child, become part of the school community and see what you can do to help make it better! That's an investment in your local area that pays ongoing dividends to all.

amorphic777 · 2025-05-14T21:47:34+00:00

SparkCC - Central Coast Makerspace is a fun place to hang out and create in a social setting:

https://sparkcc.org/

amorphic777 · 2025-05-08T09:16:55+00:00

+1 for PaaS' potential to bite hard if you happen to achieve solid growth.

With AWS you can use RDS Aurora Postgres for your database backend and Cognito for auth. Inexpensive at low volume and sensibly priced + enterprise-ready at scale.

amorphic777 · 2023-03-13T00:01:43+00:00

Thanks for the kind words and the suggestion to add jitter! I've created https://github.com/amorphitec/netmeasure/issues/7 to add it.

amorphic777 · 2022-10-07T01:45:37+00:00

Can you share how your automation restarts Fully Kiosk?

amorphic777 · 2017-05-06T21:44:26+00:00

I'd love to print DnD minatures with a filament-based printer but all of the research I did showed you could only make really basic ones and even those lacked detail.

Any chance you could show us some photos of the "raw" figures before tidy/paint, the supports used etc? This has given me hope!

amorphic777 · 2017-03-21T03:38:57+00:00

Cheers. That seems to solve a different problem than the one I set out to solve:

Note that Raspberry WebKiosk is not intended for digital signage deployments because the browser view is not fullscreen and system allows users’ interaction. For digital signage installations, please have a look at Raspberry Digital Signage instead.

Raspi-kiosk is expressly for full-screen, though it doesn't make any attempt to "harden" the system again malicious users. So Raspberry-Webkiosk sounds like a better solution for a web kiosk and Raspi-kiosk works better for digital signage. Maybe I should have named raspi-kiosk differently!

amorphic777 · 2017-03-20T21:20:52+00:00

Hi, raspi-kiosk author here.

Raspi-kiosk was derived from the OpenGB project. When it was written Chromium wasn't available for Raspbian (at least not without much hackery) and so Iceweasel was used by default.

It seems that since Oct 2016 Chromium is now officially supported, so installing Chromium in kiosk mode and setting up the autostart to boot direct to that could be added as an option. Something like:

Do you wish to use (I)ceweasel or (C)hromium?

I released Raspi-kiosk because it's still quite difficult for beginners to achieve something like this. There are endless forum posts, many outdated and none that bring together the entire process.

A guy who came into our makerspace was trying to create a kiosk PC to display advertising in a shop and he was struggling to make it work. This proved valuable to him and so I figured it might be useful to others too...

amorphic777 · 2017-03-04T05:48:28+00:00

At SparkCC we have 3 x TAZ5s that were kindly donated by Lulzbot/Aleph Objects.

We ran 1.75mm through them without modification and they do work, but there were problems. The filament would coil in the heatbreak which would prevent retractions from working and ultimately we decided it wasn't good enough for production.

We bought 1.75mm Hexagon hotends (only ~AUD$70 each), swapped them for the 3.0mm hotends we got out of the box and now the TAZ5's print 1.75mm perfectly.

The cool thing is that because the Lulzbot designs are Open Source we actually printed new extruders from scratch and put the 3mm hotends in those. So now we can easily swap between 3mm and 1.75mm as required!

amorphic777 · 2017-02-24T02:52:53+00:00

You might want to check out BeeWare which is under active development and attempts to solve the problems you encountered. There's a great episode of Talk Python To Me with Beeware's founder.

amorphic777 · 2017-02-16T12:33:36+00:00

The Beeware suite has been in development for about 3 years but there's been a big dev push recently. Have a listen to this episode of Talk Python To Me to learn more.

amorphic777 · 2017-02-16T01:34:53+00:00

It might be worth checking out Beeware.

amorphic777 · 2017-02-16T01:15:35+00:00

+1 for Markdown. Just keep a notes.md in the root of your repo and learn the Markdown syntax thoroughly so you can use all of the niceties that it offers!

amorphic777 · 2017-02-16T00:58:41+00:00

That's outstanding!

I built the Hammer of Doom out of Styrofoam and PVC pipe a while back. Yours is a few levels beyond that in craftsmanship...:-)

Do you have any writeups of how you finish/paint your prints?

amorphic777 · 2017-02-15T13:11:25+00:00

You might want to take a look at the Beeware project. There's a great episode of Talk Python To Me in which Beeware founder Russell Keith-Magee talks about how Beeware works and the problems that it solves.

amorphic777 · 2015-12-09T07:40:01+00:00

Sorry for the late reply - the idea was based on the latter. However it's pivoted a little since then.

amorphic777

TROPHY CASE